Make Your Memory: The Modern Crafter's Guide to Beautiful Scrapbook Layouts, Cards, and Mini Albums

Creative memory-keepers will learn how to make beautiful scrapbook layouts, cards, and mini photo albums from treasured family photos and inexpensive craft supplies with this modern guide to scrapbooking from papercrafting genius Paige Evans! Layer life with love! Preserve, celebrate, and cherish life's most memorable moments with this creative guide to modern scrapbooking by prolific paper craft designer Paige Evans! This stunning project book is organised into three themes: scrapbook layouts, handmade cards, and mini photo albums. The scrapbooking chapter will teach readers how to create contemporary layouts using nine different techniques, including border punches, mixed media, stamped designs, tile grids, quilt-inspired designs, handmade flowers, stitched designs, and stars. Each technique includes a step-by-step project as well as a gallery of additional samples for endless inspiration! The card chapter will teach readers how to make beautiful cards that are just as thoughtful as they are gorgeous. Themes include congratulations, sympathy, birthday, thank you, and anniversary. Each card is presented with step-by-step instructions, and there are additional card designs at the end of the chapter to give readers even more ideas. The mini album chapter will teach readers how to make three memory books that are small in size, but big on detail! Three popular techniques are used in the featured projects: an elastic-bound album, a shaped album, and an accordion album. Each album is overflowing with beautiful paper designs and layers of coordinating embellishments. For those new to the craft, the book includes a comprehensive "getting started" chapter that will guide them through the massive amount of tools and materials available (and let them know exactly what's needed). Plus, readers will find an overview to basic paper-crafting techniques and design principles. At the back of the book, there are eight pages of perforated scrapbook paper that readers can pull out and use to create the projects in the book or those of their own design. Readers will learn to make their memories into lovely works of art that will be cherished for years. AUTHOR: Paige Evans is a prolific paper artist and craft designer who is well known for her intricate scrapbook layouts, beautiful handmade cards, and layered photo albums. She has fifteen signature scrapbook collections with American Crafts (with more on the way), regularly designs cut files for Silhouette, Inc, and is the Creative Editor for Scrapbook & Cards Today magazine. A passionate and in-demand instructor, Paige has more than 30 scrapbooking and mini album workshops available online and loves teaching in-person workshops whenever she can. Paige resides in Littleton, CO, with her husband, two children, and two curious kittens who love to hang out in her craft studio! SELLING POINTS: . Learn how to make modern scrapbook layouts, handmade cards for a variety of occasions, and beautiful mini albums with this comprehensive guide from popular paper crafter Paige Evans . Learn nine different paper-crafting techniques using border punches, mixed media, stamps, tiled grids, quilt designs, paper flowers, hand stitching, and stars . Save time and money by using the convenient scrapbook paper that is bound right into the book and perforated for easy tear-out! 300 colour photographs