Scrapbooking is a great way to have fun while preserving family memories. One in three households have someone pursuing this popular hobby.
Photo, snap, shot : a Kiki Lowenstein mystery
Joanna Campbell Slan.
Woodbury, Minn. : Midnight Ink, 2010.
Kiki Lowenstein is back with another murder to solve. This time, the murder happens in her daughter's school, an exclusive private school where the children of all the old, wealthy families of St. Louis have gone for generations. Kiki's daughter, Anya, and a friend see the dead body of a teacher who is not well-liked and has plenty of enemies. When her African American boyfriend, who is also a coach at the school, is arrested, most people believe the crime is solved, but Detective Detweiler is a friend of the coach and asks Kiki to use her connections with the school to help him investigate, because he doesn't believe the coach is a killer. Kiki uncovers a number of secrets among the families, but someone wants to stop her from finding out the true.
Annotation by: St. Louis Public Library staff.
Kick it up! : adding spice to your scrapbook layouts
by Greta Hammond and Angelia Wigginton.
Cincinnati, Ohio : Memory Makers Books, 2009.
Now you can see just what makes a layout go from "nice" to "wow!" Each idea presented in Kick It Up is accompanied by two layouts: one that shows a well-designed page, and a second that shows the same layout kicked up to the next level. The techniques range from the simple (such as creative photo cropping) to the more advanced (like adding a patchwork of patterned paper to the background). The visual evidence shows you exactly what it takes to kick up a layout, while captions and instructions explain the why and how.
Image art workshop : creative ways to embellish and enhance photographic images
Paula Guhin.
Minneapolis, Minn. : Creative Publishing International, c2009.
This book teaches the reader to think of a photograph as a canvas for a wide range of artistic manipulation and coloring techniques. Once upon a time, you hesitated to even take scissors to a photo (even an imperfect one) because if you lost its negative, yoursquo;d also lose that moment in time forever. In this day of digital images and photo printers for the home computer, photographs are easily duplicated, so you never have to be concerned about preserving printed photos. You can cut, color, collage, and camouflage to your heartrsquo;s content. The photo is now an art medium that can be altered physically or digitally to create all kinds of effects.
Today's 'scrapbookers' or 'scrappers' do more than date family photos and paste them haphazardly in albums. Time is spent gathering the stories about the people, places, and events in the photos. Telling these stories, or journaling, is as important as organizing the photographs.
Advances in photographic preservation, the number of discount and craft supply stories stocking scrapbooking materials, and classes for new scrapbookers make this hobby is an easy one to start. Scrapbookers get together at events called 'crops' to exchange ideas.
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Digital scrapbooking
Computers, scanners, & digital cameras let scrapbookers supplement traditional techniques. |
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Digital scrapbooking |
To get started:
- Explore materials and tutorials
- Organize your photos--select the best ones to use
- Choose an album--consider size, binding, and safety
- Gather tools--scissors, acid free markers
- Add stickers and other embellishments
- Add journaling--include'who/when/what/why'
- Select a layout--look at what other scrapbookers use
- Begin scrapping
Every scrapbook is different. Each scrapbooker learns from the works of others, yet develops their own distinctive style of capturing and displaying cherished memories.
Article by: St. Louis Public Library staff
