Crafts: Scrapbooking and card making made simple

Tips and ideas for making cards and scrapbook pages that will look like a professional made them.

May 2009
Traci Smith, Associate Editor 
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HANDCRAFTED CARDS: This book offers more than 200 ideas and techniques for making cards.
Krause Publications
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With the economy the way it is, now is the time to learn to create personalized cards and scrapbooks. What better way to let loved ones know you care than to send a card or give a scrapbook as a gift.

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By making them yourself, you’ll save a lot of money, and it will mean a lot to your loved ones to know you cared enough to spend the time to make them a homemade gift or card, just for them.

To help get you started, we’re featuring a few excellent books that offer great tips, ideas and example pages.

 

Make handcrafted cards

Creative Card Making for Scrapbookers, from Memory Makers Books, offers 226 ideas and techniques for making handcrafted cards for birthdays, holidays, special occasions and more.

The beginning pages of the book cover basic tools and supplies to get you started, as well as ideas for embellishing your cards.

Chapter 1 features instructions for making New Year’s, Valentine’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day, Easter, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Independence Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and Christmas cards.

Chapter 2 includes cards for children and adult birthdays, as well as birthday party invitations.

Chapter 3 focuses on directions for making special occasion cards, including graduation, bridal shower, baby shower and wedding invitations, wedding and anniversary, new job, new home, new baby and retirement.

Chapter 4 is dedicated to “Thinking of You” cards. Included are best wishes, congratulations, sympathy, get well and thank you themes.

Also included is a list of quoted sentiments and sayings that can be included on your cards.

 

Organize, visualize, create

Get it Scrapped!, by Debbie Hodge, tells you how to organize, visualize and create beautiful scrapbooks that preserve your precious memories.

Organizing your photos is the first step in getting them put into scrapbooks, and the author dedicates a whole chapter to showing you how to organize your photos in a simple yet detailed way.

The remaining chapters focus on six basic scrapbook page types: events, everyday life, collections, moments, yourself and your world.

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