Artistic Effects (Creating Keepsakes Collection) - Hardcover

Creating Keepsakes

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1929180837 ISBN 13: 9781929180837

Publisher: UNKNO, 2005

Synopsis

You are the link between your family's past and future. In Our Family Scrapbooks, Lisa Bearnson and Becky Higgins share their family albums and give you easy-to-implement ideas for creating your own family albums. You'll find: Insight into Lisa and Becky's heartfelt styles and get ideas for more-meaningful albums of your own. Easy tips from these inspiring scrapbookers to boost the design, journaling and more of your layouts. 25 albums to ignite your creativity and help you capture your family's everyday history. Projects include: All about me Family picture album When I was your age The family yearbook. How to use the Artistic Effects book set: Spark your creativity! Each volume in this five-book set provides a close-up look at the different elements of your scrapbook page and shows you how to reach beyond your scrapbooking supplies to create artistic backgrounds, text elements, photography, embellishments and dimensional projects. We'll show you the steps and ideas behind these pages and projects by translating the designer's artistic techniques with step-by-step instructions as well as easy variations you can try on your own projects with supplies you already have. With each project, we'll show you either: How to. Visual step-by-steps to walk you through a technique. Variation. Tricks for achieving a simliar artistic effect on your page or project. Sidebar. An inspiration checklist for other ideas you can try. Macro. A closer look at how the designer created their page.

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About the Author

When I was about eight years old, my younger sister, Brigitta, and I would spend the long summer days drawing and painting on the blank pieces of cardboard my mother brought home from work. We never worried about whether we were really creating art—in fact, we even got it into our heads that we could sell our artwork. (After all, we saw artists doing this all the time at the park by the local zoo.) Amazingly, we did! My mother sold one cardboard painting to a coworker, and the most memorable sale of all, the neighbor who saw us hawking our art in front of the house, lemonade-stand style, and actually bought one! If artists need to make a sale for validation, then I guess we really were artists! But, back then, the only thing that mattered was that we were having fun. I’ve long ago abandoned drawing and painting, but every now and then, I’ll buy a pack of crayons or set of markers just to doodle for fun. As a former cardboard artist, I love the scrapbook pages and projects showcased in this Artistic Effects set—they remind us that your “canvas” doesn’t have to be cardstock…it can be absolutely anything: watercolor paper, a plain box, a photo frame, an album cover and the list goes on! Check out Tracie Smith’s “Collections” album on page 54. I love how she has created an eye-catching keepsake book using decoupage to celebrate her son’s affinity for collecting trading cards. Each and every project in this set features a creative idea or fun technique that you can try on your own pages or craft projects with different arts and crafts supplies. So I hope you’ll accept the challenge to push your creative boundaries—and most importantly, discover new ways to enjoy your art!

Edition details

• Publisher: UNKNO
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1929180837
• ISBN 13: 9781929180837
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 400