Decorating Scrapbooks With Rubber Stamps - Hardcover

Gruenig, Dee

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0806998415 ISBN 13: 9780806998411

Publisher: Sterling Pub Co Inc, 1997

Synopsis

Stamp out dullness in your memory album! Sure, you carefully chose the best photos, clippings, and memorabilia. But what about the scrapbook itself? Acclaimed author and rubber stamp expert Dee Gruenig helps devotees of this popular craft create great decorated pages for a one-of-a-kind book. Get the latest on stamps and pads, and decorative techniques using markers and pens, brayers and sponges, embossing powders, and heat tools. Choose the right paper for the right look, and accentuate photos with custom-sized frames. Then, pick a special occasion for your personal scrapbook. Weddings, births, graduations -- even a picnic in the park will do! Make stamped thematic pages: try Western motifs; state and national designs; or arches and arbors. Create labels; embellish pages with stripes or compressed sponge backgrounds, and have a merry Christmas with holiday stickers. Anyone can do it -- with a stamp, a pad, and a little imagination!

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Review:

Rubber-stamp queen Dee Gruenig returns with more dazzling ideas, this time letting her gleeful imagination loose on another very popular craft--scrapbooking. Combining her bold and colorful approach to stamping with her lifelong love of making memory albums, she offers many delightful ways to create unforgettable pages that unite the best of both crafts. Rather than purchasing preprinted scrapbook pages, follow Gruenig's straightforward instructions to make sponged, stickered, bordered, patterned, striped, plaid, embossed, brayered, spattered, or themed backgrounds that help even the most ho-hum photos come alive. Not only do her designs nicely frame full-photo images on the page, but many are actually intricate background landscapes that cleverly incorporate individual figures cut from the photos, decoupage style. --Amy Handy

About the Author:

Dee Gruenig is widely known as the head cheerleader of rubber-stamping and has been called the 'Renoir of Rubber'. She has solid qualifications to write about the subject, with extensive experience as innovator, teacher, retailer, motivator and leader in both the craft and gift industries. As teacher, she was first to popularise stamping to large audiences. She has taught approximately 30,000 students personally and many more through four popular videos and four successful books. She has appeared on numerous popular craft television shows since 1989 and serves on two major advisory boards in the industry.

About this edition

• Publisher: Sterling Pub Co Inc
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0806998415
• ISBN 13: 9780806998411
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 144