Never before has there been more interest in scrapbooking. Once a seemingly mundane activity, scrapbooking has grown into a sophisticated art with scrapbook enthusiasts clamoring for more ideas for making their pages creative and unique. Scrapbook Collage feeds exactly this demand. Each section focuses on a variety of translucent materials that can be used to build beautiful layers and dimension into your scrapbooking projects. Through stunning finished pages, illuminated details of the unique techniques and materials applied to sample projects and templates, this book provides instruction on how to create sophisticated, collage-style scrapbook layouts.

It’s the next phase in the scrapbooking craze! And this creative resource is the first of its kind—the first to focus on the use of computer hardware and software to unlock an exciting range of creative possibilities. Crafters will explore the many ways digital elements can add pizzazz to their scrapbooks: they’ll learn to manipulate pictures with photo/image editing software, use scanners to create themed background papers, and draw on clip art for decorative accents. Going even further into the brave new world, there’s information on creating all-digital pages, putting together a slideshow on computer, and pooling various techniques to stage a “digital family reunion.”

Fresh and Fun Techniques for Layering What is your definition of Collage Art? Whatever your answer, there is no "one way" that Collage Art is made. Collage is, by definition, the assembling of materials onto a surface; any time you have layered a photo over paper and onto a scrapbook page, you have done Collage Art and are therefore, a Collage Artist! In this book, Kelly Angard takes a personal approach to teaching over 50 techniques that will bring artistic style to your scrapbook art. Through illustrated step-by-step instructions and simple diagrams, she demystifies the techniques that make Collage Art look complicated while encouraging you to create a look that is all your own. Colorant techniques include: Altered ink designs Metallic photo effects Stamped paint imprints Brayered dye washes Texture techniques include: Embossed stencil designs Encrusted embellishments Gel imprints Architextural images Image techniques include: Embossed photos Image transfers Rub-on transfers Painted transparencies Collage techniques include: Multiphoto mosaics Abstract portrait collages Dimensional decoupages Transparency montages

Presents step-by-step instructions for turning existing books into personal, inspired scrapbooks that reflect different themes and meanings, with tips for every stage of the process.

This book showcases ideas for using vintage materials and products to create a family history album. Included are step-by-step photos for techniques, material lists and detailed instructions for each scrapbook page layout. Vintage Collage for Scrapbooking is a technique-driven book ideal for everyone, from beginners to advanced artists and crafters. Techniques featured include: coffee dying papers and fabrics, setting eyelets, transferring photos with acetone, applying liver of sulfur on copper mesh, printing from your computer onto transparencies and fabrics and much more. Grab your photos and tools and leave a legacy!

Cecil Beaton (1904-1980) was essential to the cultural life of Britain and beyond in the twentieth

The celebrated designer’s latest book, devoted to gleaning design inspiration from the personal scrapbooks and notebooks of great women of style—including her own. Interior designer Charlotte Moss has spent years collecting as well as creating scrapbooks—a pastime both meditative and instructive about her own ideas regarding design and style. In this unique book, Moss brings together her own scrapbooks along with those of notable women, both contemporary and historical, whose flair for style inspires us, including interior designer Elsie de Wolfe and society doyenne Gloria Vanderbilt—all never before published. Organized by theme—home, garden, travel, entertaining, and fashion—each chapter includes examples of Moss’s signature style mingled with excerpts from the scrapbooks of these great women. From the ambassador’s wife and bon vivant Evangeline Bruce, we learn that she preferred accessorizing tabletops with simple florets of broccoli in biscuit tins. And from the iconic Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, we see her notes and menus from the legendary White House dinners she threw. One piece (among many) of sage advice includes perfecting one extraordinary meal and serving it again and again, rather than experimenting endlessly.