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 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 All about me Family picture album When I was your age The family yearbook. How to use the Artistic Effects book 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 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.