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Review & Giveaway | Getting Started With Scrapbooking e-Book

January 14, 2014 by Francine Clouden

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In  Getting Started With Scrapbooking Phyllis Matthews helps you to create your very first scrapbook. She outlines the beginning steps you need to take, then carries you through completing your first page, and eventually a complete scrapbook on a specific theme.

Review & Giveaway at Craft Gossip - Get Started With Scrapbooking e-book-3In Chapter 1 you will learn how to get started without having to buy anything, by first brainstorming what you want you scrapbook to be about. and sketching out your vision in a mind map.

Review & Giveaway at Craft Gossip - Get Started With Scrapbooking e-book-4Chapter 2 covers organizing and editing your photos: she shares examples of creative cropping in a light hearted story-telling style. In Chapter 3 you will learn how to choose an album, including using ones that might not be exactly what you want, and altering them to suit your style.

Chapter 4 is where you’ll find the specific of making your first page! First things first: selecting and organizing the photos you want to use.  Review & Giveaway at Craft Gossip - Get Started With Scrapbooking e-book-5

Then more details on choosing a background, what colors to use, adding journaling etc.

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You will also get some page layout sketches to help jumpstart you.

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Chapter 5 addresses embellishments, and how you can use what you already have on hand for making your own backgrounds, and doodahs.

The final two chapters address setting up a workspace (she suggests starting small), and a bit of the history behind scrapbooks, and some ideas for themed books you can make.

My overall thought on the e-book is that it is really a very basic introduction to scrapbooking for a complete newbie. If you are familiar with modern scrapbooking which focuses on using design concepts and/or artsy approaches, then this book is not for you. (For example the author explains how to use decorative scissors to cut out your photos and mats.)

However if you want to put a toe in the waters of scrapbooking there are some very sound foundational concepts included that should help you complete your first themed book. The author stresses the importance of how using acid-free papers will help to preserve your photos for generations to come. I also like her suggestions that you can use what you already have instead of going out to buy lots of new stuff. if you already practise other crafts, you will no doubt have things on hand that you can safely use in your scrapbooks.

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Interested? Well you can win a copy! This is an e-book and is available in PDF, EPUB or Kindle format. Leave me a comment letting me know if starting scrapbooking is one of your goals for 2014. Or maybe you are trying to encourage someone to start? I’ll pick a winner on Monday January 20th.

Good luck!

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Comments

  1. Christina Templin says

    January 14, 2014 at 6:07 am

    My sons autistic so I scrapbook to keep my anexity down, and we can watch his journey with all 14 specialist tests and etc

  2. Alberta Cooke says

    January 14, 2014 at 6:09 am

    I have decided to learn scrapbooking an crochet as my goals this year. I NEED to learn something new xxx

  3. lisa simmons says

    January 14, 2014 at 6:21 am

    I started to scrapbook several yrs ago and got discouraged when my parents became sick, now that Im pulling myself back together I want to complete the scrapbook that I started for my dads veteran pictures then move on to my sons photo albums to get the ready for passing along one day full of memories. Would love to win a copy to give me a guideline/structure of where to begin again.. thank you for this great opportunity 🙂

  4. Jo Ann says

    January 14, 2014 at 6:40 am

    I have always wanted to scrapbook but have no idea how to start. This book is exactly what I need to acheive this goal in 2014!

  5. Sandy Heringer says

    January 14, 2014 at 6:41 am

    I paper scrapbook but would like to get going on digital!

  6. Sue Moore says

    January 14, 2014 at 9:36 am

    I love Scrapbooking and have helped others get started. This book would be a great asset. Thanks for the opportunity.

  7. Cheryl Ann says

    January 14, 2014 at 10:12 am

    I’ve been out of scrap booking for several years and this would be a great tool to reintroduce me to it. My first grandchild will be born this year and I want to make scrapbooks for him.

  8. terriavidreader says

    January 14, 2014 at 10:40 am

    Starting a scrapbook has been my goal for a couple of years, ,but I’ve hesitated as I have no idea how to start. I’d love to win this and give it a try!

  9. Jeanne says

    January 14, 2014 at 10:56 am

    I have 2 scrapbooks laying here for 6 years now, one for each grandchild, I even have the pictures organized to put in them, but……and that is where I am as I have no clue to even get started. Thank you for this chance.

  10. Rhonda McSwain says

    January 14, 2014 at 12:28 pm

    I am going to try & start scrapbooking this year.. & digital is the way most of my newer photos are. would love to have this .

  11. Duane says

    January 14, 2014 at 4:31 pm

    I’d like to learn how to get started. Have lots of pictures.

  12. Chantel Lee says

    January 14, 2014 at 4:35 pm

    Ooh, I would love this! I really, really want to get all of my photos organized in scrapbooks this year! Pick me, please!!

  13. CindyZS says

    January 14, 2014 at 5:14 pm

    i have a lot of stuff to do scrapbooking but don’t really know how or where to start. would love to learn as i have ‘documented’ the lives of my beautiful grandkids and would love to showcase them in something as awesome as they are! thanks for considering me.

  14. Lynn White says

    January 14, 2014 at 7:34 pm

    I would love to win this,new to scrapbooking. This would be great to download on my Nook.

  15. Joanne Stepp says

    January 15, 2014 at 7:03 am

    It would be fun and interesting to to learn how to use this and actually do it.

  16. Carmen in WI says

    January 18, 2014 at 7:54 pm

    It’s one of my goals to get my daughter’s baby book done this year. She’s 3 now.

  17. Astra C. Alegre says

    January 18, 2014 at 9:55 pm

    I really need to scrapbook my trips from the last 3 years. I hope to win this.

  18. Rossana says

    January 20, 2014 at 2:58 pm

    I love scrapbooking books!

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12 Masculine Scrapbook Layouts for Men

12 Masculine Scrapbook Layouts for Men

Kat’s fun masculine birthday layout has a lot of white space with a bit of confetti thrown around, a cool mixed title with some stamping and amazing banners across the top. The banners are made from bakers twine with rectangle, fishtail and round flags folded over, cut from different pattern papers. I spotted her idea on the Krafty Kat 9 Instagram page.

With Father’s Day over you might be thinking about scraping those photos of Dad you took or just about designing masculine scrapbook layouts in general. I know they can be a bit challenging but think about using richer, darker color combinations, masculine patterns like plaids, stripes, chevron and stars as well as incorporating activities they enjoy doing to create the perfect page for the men in your life. Let’s take a look today at some ideas for masculine layouts for Father’s Day and Beyond.

12 Masculine Scrapbook Layouts for Men

Jan’s father and son concert layout has a layered wide border, a custom die cut letters and alphabet stickers title and neat music related embellishments. Her main photo of the guys is the largest balanced with two concert pics to the side with room for journaling as well. Visit the Jana Eubank blog for all the details.

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Manasa’s layout has some simple paper weaving of distressed strips of cardstock with stitching, this adds so much great color and texture to the page! She also added a few embellishments, gems and stitched down the sticker letter title too. Take a closer look at her Manasa Vavilapalli Instagram page.

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Black and white with a pop of a single color is perfect for a formal mens layout like Sara did here using a bold yellow for the background. I love the large die cut title and how she placed one of the photo inside of a letter! Since this is for a wedding she also included sweet wedding embellishments and sentiments. Learn more at A Cherry on Top blog.

12 Masculine Scrapbook Layouts for Men

Even though Erin’s page theme is actually nautical this is a great design theme for any masculine layout that isn’t. Red, white and blue work perfectly with lots of sea life, rope, maps, buttons and ink splatters for a maritime feel. I came across her idea at the Not Just for Boys Instagram page.

12 Masculine Scrapbook Layouts for Men

Julie’s awesome layout keeps all the action vertically down the center with long strips and stripes of paper, stitching, string and ribbon, anchored by two half circles. There’s tons of great texture from wooden words, metal buttons, staples, sewing, fabric patches and more. Take a closer peek at the Hey Little Magpie blog.

12 Masculine Scrapbook Layouts for Men

Black and grey are perfect for guys, it’s also a fun challenge for yourself to dig through your stash and find everything you can that’s black and grey. Kim’s design has lots of thick chipboard arrows and tickets forming a border to the side of the photo along with layers of different grungy pattern papers and tearing too. Visit the Kimew Instagram page for more info.

12 Masculine Scrapbook Layouts for Men

Pocket pages are a easy and quick way to create masculine designs. Traci filled the left side with photos of a fishing trip adding a single sentiment strip. The other side is just one pattern paper but with a thick acrylic title, a small journaling label and some more sentiment strips, it’s so clean and simple. She breaks it all down at the Traci Reed Designs blog.

12 Masculine Scrapbook Layouts for Men

Sophies outdoorsy design has an amazing background made of strips of ruler papers in rustic colors stacked along the top and bottom of the photo. Some are torn, some are stitched and over top she layered buttons, gems, tied tags, scattered stars with larger accents like a compass, deer and a circle for journaling. I spotted this on the So Scrappy Instagram page.

12 Masculine Scrapbook Layouts for Men

For the guy who loves to travel is a wonderful layout from Angela with a large circular photo in the center with a stitched round matt and colorful vehicles all around. There’s also stitching around the background pattern paper and the title and speech bubbles are in similar colors to the cars. Find more info at the I Need Confetti blog.

12 Masculine Scrapbook Layouts for Men

For men who love to work on cars here’s a double page spread from Erin. She used rustic pattern papers in black and tan with lots of cool die cut gears with realistic looking heat embossed rust, ink pad smearing and torn vellum on the journaling. Learn more at the Crafty Concepts with Erin Instagram page.

12 Masculine Scrapbook Layouts for Men

Tarrah created an amazing tent she drew and cut from plaid pattern paper to frame her camping layout, using twine to “tie” up the sides. Around the photos are some florals and insects along with a thick acrylic camper and date label. The title is also acrylic with more flowers and a bird house accent. Find more info at the Bramble Fox blog.

I hope you’ve been inspired today to create some cool layouts for all the guys you love!

-Heather

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