Making Scrapbooks

Making Scrapbooks
Author: Vanessa-Ann
Publisher: Sterling Publishing (NY)
Total Pages: 136
Release: 1998
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9780806999005

Guide to products, supplies, and techniques used for creating lasting and memorable scrapbooks and photo albums using templates, découpage, painting, embossing, and other techniques.

The Scrapbooker's Guide to Business

The Scrapbooker's Guide to Business
Author: Kathy Steligo
Publisher: Kathy Steligo
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2002
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780966979923

SEEMS LIKE EVERYONE WANTS TO START A SCRAPBOOK BUSINESS??but not everyone knows how to go about doing it. Do you need a license? What's it really like to run a retail store? Will your spouse make a good partner? How do you patent a product? Can you profit from teaching classes, coordinating events, or making scrapbooks for others? This lighthearted guide has ideas, information, encouragement, and resources for nine different part-time and full-time business opportunities.Whether you want to invest a few hours and a few dollars, or make a significant investment and full-time commitment, The Scrapbooker's Guide To Business shows you how to: ?set goals and plan for success?choose the right business for you?convert your fears into confidence?calculate start-up costs?assess the competition?find customers?manage inventory?get started with a business plan ?get a business license and reseller's permit?set prices for your custom work?and much, much more

Starting Points

Starting Points
Author: Linda Harrison
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2008-08-06
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1599630893

Find Your Inspiration Getting started can be the hardest part of scrapbooking–but it doesn't have to be. Starting Points shows you that inspiration for creating a scrapbook page can come from anywhere: an old photo, a conversation, beautiful architecture or even a clever ad in a magazine. In Starting Points, author Linda Harrison teaches you how to open your eyes to all the starting points around you, then illustrates how they can lead to an attractive and meaningful page. You'll be inspired to take favorite photos, memorable notes, trendy new product and more and use them to fuel fresh new layouts bursting with personality and style. Starting Points helps inspire your scrapbooking with: • 120 unique layouts • Images of the original starting points that inspired every layout, including cute quotes from kids, receipts, vacation snapshots, patterned paper, party supplies, paint swatches, brochures and more • Tips for brainstorming unique ideas–and for creating your best layouts yet Let Starting Points inspire you to breathe new life into your scrapbooks–from start to finish!

Scrapbooking For Dummies

Scrapbooking For Dummies
Author: Jeanne Wines-Reed
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2011-03-08
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1118054318

Scrapbooking is sweeping the nation! This hot hobby is a fantastic way to preserve your memories and family history—and have a lot of fun doing it. Now, here’s an easy-to-follow guide that will have you creating great scrapbook projects in no time. Scrapbooking For Dummies is perfect for you if you’re a new scrapbooker who wants to create your own personal scrapbook (or who would like to make a special scrapbook for a friend or loved one) or if you’re already an avid scrapbooker who’s looking for helpful tips and new ideas. This friendly guide takes the guesswork out of creating well-designed albums. You’ll discover how to: Organize your photographs and memorabilia Assemble the right tools and materials Research your personal history and tell your story Design attractive, foolproof page layouts Network with other scrapbookers This plain-English guide features clear, close-up photographs and sketches that illustrate just what you want to know about scrapbooking tools and techniques. You’ll learn about the different styles of scrapbooking, how to create unity in your albums, and how to take better pictures (including advice on digital photography). You receive hands-on guidance every step of the way as you: Choose a theme or occasion Crop and mount photographs Accessorize with stickers, stamps, and more Enhance your albums through journaling Avoid costly, time-consuming mistakes Take proper care of photographs and negatives Extend the life of your old photos Complete with ten great scrapbooking projects and a list of online resources, Scrapbooking For Dummies gives you the tools you need to create beautiful albums to share with family and friends—and pass on to future generations!

Home-Based Businesses That You Can Start Today

Home-Based Businesses That You Can Start Today
Author: Robert Witham
Publisher: Robert P Witham
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2011-02-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1456575503

More people than ever are considering starting a home-based business. Part of this interest in home-based businesses is driven by an economic recession, but part of it is also driven by the dream of independence.For many people, being self-employed or operating their own home-based business has always been a dream. Leaving the corporate world behind, eliminating long commutes to work, spending more time at home with family, and a desire for a simpler lifestyle have all been listed as reasons why people decide to trade the supposed security of a corporate job for a home-based business.There are many reasons to start a home-based business. In fact, there are probably about as many reasons as there are small business owners! Starting a small business is hard work, but it is also rewarding work. Working for yourself also provides a measure of security and flexibility not available in any job. How much security and how much flexibility depends on the type of business you operate, as well as your motivation and determination to succeed.Home-Based Businesses That You Can Start Today will help you get started on the exciting journey toward being a small business owner. This book is filled with small business ideas that can be started right from your own home with minimal expense or hassle. Each business idea is neatly organized into its own section so you can skip over any business ideas that do not sound appealing and focus on those that you do find interesting.Home-Based Businesses That You Can Start Today focuses on providing ideas to get you started. This book profiles 65 different business ideas that you can start at home.I trust you will find Home-Based Businesses That You Can Start Today to be a valuable resource as you consider starting your own small business. The list of business ideas that is included in this book is by no means exhaustive or comprehensive, but it does provide a good overview of the many types of home-based businesses that can be operated today.

Sewing on Paper

Sewing on Paper
Author: Catherine Matthews-Scanlon
Publisher: Lark Books (NC)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006
Genre: Photograph albums
ISBN: 9781579909871

Provides ideas and instructions for creating scrapbook pages, gifts, tag, cards, and other items using techniques that involve sewing on paper, and includes illustrations, and notes on supplies and materials.

How to Unleash Your Scrapbooking Creativity

How to Unleash Your Scrapbooking Creativity
Author: Ade Asefeso MCIPS MBA
Publisher: AA Global Sourcing Ltd
Total Pages: 80
Release: 2011-06-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1447728432

Scrapbooking has been around for years. Teenage girls have taped prom tickets to notebook pages and written their memories of the evening along with pictures and other mementos. We arrange photos into albums and perhaps label them with dates and other information.

The Amazing Page

The Amazing Page
Author: Memory Makers
Publisher: Memory Makers
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006-06-30
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781892127914

Truly amazing scrapbook pages and sketches! The Amazing Page offers readers top-notch scrapbook pages - under a wide umbrella of popular, tried-and-true themes - including family, homes, falling in love, babies, toddlers, kids, teens, husbands, travel, sports and much more. This book offers a wealth of page ideas for any scrapbooker, beginner to advanced, plus a CD-Rom with 75 of the best page layout sketches based on the pages in the book. This book offers: A fabulous selection of never-before-seen scrapbook pages covering a wide variety of themes and styles that will spark reader's imaginations Helpful tips and tricks from contributors plus sidebars and tip boxes to offer additional information on design, concept, photography, color and technique CD-Rom of 75 printable page layout sketches to take all the guesswork out of designing great pages fast A colossal gallery of never-before-published, contemporary artwork from our reading audience, The Amazing Page is sure to inspire any scrapbooker seeking to capture precious memories and everyday moments in their scrapbooks.

Great Scrapbooks

Great Scrapbooks
Author: Michele Gerbrandt
Publisher:
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2000
Genre: Photograph albums
ISBN: 9780883633748

How to Scrapbook

How to Scrapbook
Author: Joy Aitman
Publisher: Search Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006
Genre: Photograph albums
ISBN: 9781844481545

Joy Aitman explains all the basic techniques of scrapbooking and shows you how to create beautiful layouts using holiday photographs, a school photograph and a wedding picture. Cropping is one of the basics of scrapbooking and Sarah McKenna shows how to use dozens of techniques such as slicing, silhouetting, montage and mosaics to enhance your pages. Sarah then shows how eyelets can be used to attach vellu, acetate and fabric to your pages, to add embellishments and accents and to provide emphasis and detail. Clear step-by-step demonstrations are accompanied by over a hundred wonderful layouts to inspire you.