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.

Creating Keepsakes has searched the globe for the top scrapbookers, and after judging over 16,800 page entries, we've selected 25 inductees to join our 2000 Scrapbook Hall of Fame. We've compiled their fabulous layouts in one big idea book, The 2000 Scrapbook Hall of Fame.

Creating Keepsakes announces the latest volume of one of our most popular The 2004 Scrapbook Idea Book. The variety of themes and styles will put a stop to every type of scrapper’s block! Grab your copy and get ready to scraplift!

The Best of Becky Higgins' Sketches. Becky Higgins is well known for her beautiful page designs, classic and timeless layouts and her easy-to-follow scrapbook-page sketches. In this best of collection they have included 195 never-before-seen scrapbook layouts illustrating every sketch plus hundreds of tips such as creative ways to use acrylic paints brads circle punches and much more. Hardcover 202 pages.

Scrapbooking with patterned paper has never been easier! In her second book, Ali Edwards shares her designer secrets for how to choose and use patterned paper on your layouts. For quick and easy reference, this book is organized into chapters by patterned paper type (circles, florals, text and geometric). Each layout includes a sketch to give you instant ideas on how to translate Ali's designer look to your scrapbook pages. In this book, you'll also learn how to: Embrace the fun of working with patterned paper (it is so not scary). Choose the patterned paper that best expresses the story you want to tell. Mix and match a variety of patterns to create totally cool and timeless layouts. Store and organize your paper for easy access. Create meaningful and well-designed pages with patterned paper scraps from your stash. Select page embellishments that work with, rather than overwhelming, your patterned paper. PLUS! Get 8 exclusive patterned papers designed by Ali with this book!

Are you running out of layout ideas? Wondering how you are going to scrapbook all of your photos next year? Creating Keepsakes presents the ultimate scrapbook idea resource for the year 2002. The 2002 Scrapbook Idea Book has enough layout inspiration to make 2002 your best scrapping year ever. We’ve also included a brand new alphabet, three pages of Cut ’n Copy titles and tons of great tips and ideas.

These exclusive guides were created by the editors of Creating Keepsakes for you to help you learn quick and easy tips to scrapbook successfully.

Scrapbook your photos straight from the photo lab! You won't need enlargements to create these beautiful scrapbook pages, albums and more! In this comprehensive guide to scrapbooking 4 X 6 photos, CK's experts and contributors share their secrets for creating stunning and effective page designs as well as capturing the perfect photos. Plus, we'll share ideas for easy and beautiful home decor and mini book projects! This guide is simply a must-have for anyone who wants to scrapbook and display their 4 X 6 photos in beautiful and creative ways.