‘Get Creative with Type’ from Creating Keepsakes

The latest book from Creating Keepsakes promises to help you get the most out of type (alphabets). Whether its computer fonts or paper supplies, “Get Creative with Type” by CK Editor-in-Chief Brian Tippetts will show you how to:

• Create eye-catching page titles.
• Make our journaling readable and appealing.
• Choose the perfect fonts for layouts.
• Avoid common type traps for scrapbookers.
• Use alphabet rub-ons, stickers, chipboard, stamps and handwriting in innovative ways.

Ali Edwards, Jessica Sprague, Heidi Swapp, Jennifer McGuire and Elizabeth Kartchner and others also contribute to the book.
164 page book with CD. $19.99. Now available for pre-order at Creating Keepsakes.

Video Class: Family Memories Shadow Box by Leah Fung

Scrapbooks etc. is offering a video class by Contributing Editor Leah Fung.

In this class, you will be making a family photo keepsake using a shadow box. Detailed instructions on “how to use paint, scrapbook supplies, and your favorite photos to transform a plain chipboard box into a family treasure” will be provided in video form and as a step-by-step guide. The video is about 20 minutes long.

The cost for this online video class is $10. Register here.

Quick and Easy Photo Albums from Simple Scrapbooks

Simple Scrapbooks Magazine’s special issue, coming out next week, is made for those of us who have tons of photos that are waiting to be placed in scrapbook albums. Read more

Create a Shaped Card with Photoshop

Danielle Flanders has a tutorial on making a template for shaped cards using Photoshop. For her example, she made a crescent moon-shaped card. You can make whatever shape you want your card to be, for any occasion.

Scrapbook Page Maps by Becky Fleck

Becky Fleck’s Scrapbook Page Maps: Sketches For Creative Layouts offers more than 90 sketches to help the busy scrapbooker. The book includes a deck of cards that doubles as a helpful resource tool, with a supply list and page number cross-referencing that point back to the book.

Becky Fleck is a graphic designer and illustrator who freelances for BasicGrey, Melissa Frances and Pink Martini Designs. Her web site, www.pagemaps.com, is a wealth of inspiration for scrapbookers interested in using sketches to quickly finish their pages.

The Gift of Words by Amy Sorenson

Amy Sorenson will be teaching at Big Picture Scrapbooking on “The Gift of Words”. The focus of this two-week online class is including meaningful messages in your holiday gifts, whether its a card or a letter.

The class will run from December 4-17, 2008. Registration is $10.00 and will be open until December 10 at 10:00 p.m. PST.

How to Scrapbook Odds and Ends Photos

Kate Griswold, owner and organizer of Scrapbooks Mega Meet, shares some of her tips for scrapbooking those "odds and ends" photos.

To scrapbook the seasons:

1. Use color.

2. Use even the unusable in your photos.

3. Keep it simple.

To scrapbook photos of everyday life:

1. Scrap it all.

2. Don’t forget to journal.

3. Scrap everyday elements.

Read more at Source News

New Rhonna Farrer Book: Enjoy the Process

Rhonna Farrer and Autumn Leaves are teaming up to bring you a new book called “Enjoy the Process”.

Rhonna Farrer will be your personal tour guide through nine detailed and fun-filled exercises geared toward spicing up your creativity and helping you enjoy the journey along the way. You’ll also find each chapter jampacked with projects and layouts created by the DW artists as they traveled Rhonna’s creative path.

Over 100 pages, spiral bound with lots of extras. Shipping starts in December.

Scrapbook to Cards

Paper Crafts magazine has a new book designed to help scrapbookers take inspiration from their pages to make unique cards. The book is called “Scrapbook to Cards“.

This one-of-a-kind book teaches you how to find card-making inspiration from your scrapbook pages by looking at the theme, color, words, and techniques used on your layouts. Scrapbook to Cards also shows you how to use photos from your scrapbooks on cards in innovative ways, as well as ideas for maximizing your supplies which helps you stretch you budget and your ideas!

Peek at Ali Edwards’ New Book

The Scrapbook Oasis has a sneek peak at Ali Edwards’ new book that’s coming out in September/October. It’s called “Life Artist: Scrapbooking Life’s Journey”. You check out some of the pages here. I’m such a fan of Ali, so I’m definitely looking forward to this one!

Real Life Scrapbooking from Simple Scrapbooks

This is the scrapbooking reference for busy everyday scrapbookers! This is Real Life Scrapbooking, a new book by Rebecca Cooper from Simple Scrapbooks.

Rebecca Cooper is a regular, everyday scrapbooker—just like you. She stretches her supplies, thrives on design shortcuts, and scrapbooks when her kids are asleep. In Real.Life.Scrapbooking. she shares simple, beautiful pages about her small-town life, plus easy layout solutions that you can use right away, including building blocks for easy pages and simple schemes. You’ll walk away from Rebecca’s book with tons of tips and inspiring ideas to try—but more importantly, you’ll learn to appreciate your own extra-ordinary life.

Available now for $19.95 from Simple Scrapbooks.

101 Things You Can Do With Your Scrapbook Supplies

Jennifer McGuire’s new book, 101 Things You Can Do With Your Scrapbook Supplies, is now available from Creating Keepsakes.

Get more out of the products in your stash with these inspiring tips and fun idas for using your supplies! Jennifer McGuire and her team of talented scrapbookers will take your product use to new heights—showing you over 150 cool new ways to turn your everyday scrapbooking products and tools into fabulous projects!

Based on Jennifer’s popular CK column, Tool and Techniques, this special issue provides quick and simple ideas for every product in your stash—from stickers and rub-ons to ribbon and brads.

Listed at $14.95

Album Shortcuts from Simple Scrapbooks

This is a special issue from Simple Scrapbooks. It’s called Album Shortcuts and features 42 theme albums in every size and theme you can imagine. Universal topics like baby, wedding, travel and holidays are covered, as well as everyday albums like “Everyday Advice” and “All About Me”.

Features:

• 42 gorgeous easy-to-duplicate theme albums
• Inspiration for 4″ x 6″ photos
• Cool albums from Cathy Zielske, Stacy Julian, Donna Downey and other favorite scrapbookers

Listed at $14.95.

Organization Tips for Scrapbookers from Creating Keepsakes

This new book from Creating Keepsakes is billed as the ultimate guide for storing your supplies. Organization Tips for Scrapbookers by Denise Pauley promises to help you get organized.

Imagine being able to match your photos to the right color of cardstock in seconds, or knowing exactly where you put that “perfect” embellishment you bought months ago. Organization Tips for Scrapbookers is the perfect companion for helping you organize your supplies and for creating a beautiful, workable space. From cardstock and patterned paper to ribbon, brads and alphabet stamps, this is your ultimate guide for storing your supplies and for ensuring that everything you need to create great pages is at your fingertips.

Inside you’ll find:

* More than 325 beautiful full-color photographs so you can easily find the organization solution that works for you

* 30 tips from expert scrapbookers who share what works for them

* Suggestions for sorting your supplies

* 14 easy and beautiful how-to projects you can make to enhance your organization system

Available at Amazon.com.

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Computer Tricks for Scrapbooking from Creating Keepsakes

Even if you’re not a digital scrapbooker, this special issue from Creating Keepsakes could help you put a new dimension to your scrapbooking. Computer Tricks for Scrapbookers by Jessica Sprague will teach you how to use your computer beyond just printing out photos and journalling. It’s a great resource for hybrid (paper and computer) scrapbookers.

164 pages. Listed at $14.95.

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