Try scrapbooking outside the scrapbook!
- Transform scrapbooking photos into beautiful home décor
- 12 beautiful projects including a tribute shelf, stationery box, storage caddies, and wall hangings
- Tips and tricks for working with papers, adhesives, paints, inks, punches, and more
- Learn techniques for stamping, layering, embossing, using resin, and embellishing
Don't just tuck your memories away in an album — put them on display around your home to enjoy every day!
Scrapbooking is a wonderful pastime that has been used by countless families to preserve family history and memories. But what comes after you've created your scrapbook collection? Which album is put out on the coffee table while the rest are stored away? With this book, you will never have to pick and choose between your favorite memories again!
Inside these pages, award-winning author Candice Windham will show you how to turn your scrapbooking photos into beautiful pieces of home décor that can be proudly displayed throughout your home. You'll find 12 fabulous projects that will take your scrapbooking experience to a whole new level, creating meaningful objects out of everyday (and frequently recycled) materials. Learn how to create a stationery box featuring pictures of your family, a fabric wall hanging honoring a soldier, and storage bins packed with memories.
Windham offers tips and tricks for working with materials like papers, adhesives, and paint, plus explains techniques for stamping, shading, inking, embossing, distressing, and creating custom embellishments. She also teaches how to mix media, such as painting, embellishment, and die cutting. You'll learn basic craft techniques step-by-step to create beautiful and lasting artwork centered around family photos and other mementos. You'll also see how you can incorporate your scrapbooking style into your home décor by learning how to use what you already have, as Windham shows you how to use family heirlooms to design unique pieces of family memorabilia.
Projects include:
- Family Tribute Shelf
- Relationship Wall Art
- Can Full of Memories
- Jewelry Box Storage Caddies
- Heirloom Stationery Box
- Keepsake Sewing Box
- Recipe Serving Tray
- Memory Charm Napkin Rings
- Shadow Box Book
- Birthday Card Book
- Copper Flower Hanger
- Fabric Photo Wall Hanging
These imaginative interior design projects are creative, fun, and functional, and can be completed no matter your level of expertise. Using this book as a starting point, you can start to develop your own original, creative ideas for wall hangings, tabletop art, storage bins, desk sets, and so much more!
Whether you're a brand-new scrapbooker or have been doing it for years, take your scrapbooking to new heights, with Scrapbooking for Home Décor!
Candice Windham is a graphic designer and paper artist who studied art at the University of Memphis. She has 35 years of experience in graphic design and has received numerous awards for her design work. Windham also works in watercolor, acrylic, colored pencil, graphite, rubber stamping, and altered and paper arts and has studied with many nationally renowned artists, such as Joseph Fettingis, Louise Cadillac, Jim Kosvanec, and Doug Dawson. Her work is included in international collections, and she has received awards in local and regional art exhibitions, including the Memphis/Germantown Art League's Annual Juried Exhibitions, the Helena Watercolor Exhibition, the Mid South Fair and the American Penwomen Memphis Chapter art exhibitions. She is represented in Memphis by the Rivertown Gallery at Pembroke Square. Windham teaches a variety of classes at Eclectica Scrapbook and Stamps in Cordova, Tennessee, and is active in several local stamp and paper arts groups.
