Noted Victorianist Cynthia Hart turns her talented hand to this wildly popular craft with great success, declaring, "Creating a scrapbook is one of the most powerful ways to celebrate our lives and the lives of loved ones." Hart packs into these pretty pages just about everything you need to know: all the basics, plus full-color glimpses of more than two dozen imaginative scrapbook designs on a wide variety of themes (family milestones, celebrating the past, kid subjects, holidays, and much more). There's also a nice section of clip art, patterns, and templates that can be photocopied for use in your own scrapbooks. This volume is about much more than having fun with your photos; this is a guide to making a book of memories, an artful presentation of memorabilia on whatever subject you choose. --Amy Handy


Book Description
It's about grandmothers saving memories for grandchildren. Mothers creating books for sons and daughters. Entire families getting together to cut and paste in imaginative and beautiful ways. From a life-long chronicler whose A Victoriana Scrapbook and other Victoriana gift books have over 604,000 copies in print, here is a complete, step-by-step guide to scrapbooking, the new American passion. Fully illustrated in full-color and black and white, CYNTHIA HART'S SCRAPBOOK WORKSHOP covers it all. Acid-free papers and other archival materials. Inventive ways to incorporate writing and drawing. Planning and laying out a memory book. Setting up a workspace. All the techniques and tricks of the trade: enlarging, cutting, gluing, ironing, cropping photographs, creating stencils, using decorative-edge scissors. Rounding out the book are 30 great inspirational projects, including baby books, school books, flower books, travel albums, and memory bouquets. Guided by Cynthia Hart's dazzling design sense and expertise, any enthusiast can create beautiful, heirloom-quality albums. Selection of Doubleday Direct. Over 97,000 copies in print.


About the Author
Cynthia Hart's designs can be found on home furnishings, fragrances, and gift and stationery products, as well as Cynthia Hart's Victoriana Calendars, Cynthia Hart's Wreaths from the Garden Calendar, and Cynthia Hart's Family Scrapbook Calendar. She is also the co-author of five luxuriant Victoriana gift books. Her studio is in New York City.


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THE CRAFT OF SCRAPBOOKING Creating a scrapbook is one of the most powerful ways to celebrate our lives and the lives of loved ones. And the occasions for making a memory album are endless: the joyous birth of a new baby, a romantic, elegant wedding, a long-awaited move to a new house, a fun-filled family vacation, a child's carefree summer at camp, a tribute to a dedicated school group, a pet that's really like a member of the family, and most enduring of all, the preservation of the memory of those you love in a family album that is built over many years. Any event or person close to your heart, any occasion that you especially cherish - all provide perfect reasons to start planning a beautiful, archival album that will ensure that your memories will be preserved for all the years to come. Before you even begin to approach the construction of a scrapbook, remember this: Enjoy yourself. You don't have to be an accomplished craftsperson to reproduce any of the projects in this book. Don't worry about making your album "perfect." And don't feel that you have to do everything at once. Begin by just getting the photo-filled shopping bags out of the closet one afternoon. That's all. The next day, you can take all the photographs out of one bag and begin to sort them into categories. You can sort pictures by even ("Judy's Wedding," "Our Trip to the Coast." "The Smith Family Reunion") or by subject ("Our New Home" "The Three Jones Sisters," "Angela Learns to Cook," "Mom," "The Elm Street Church Choir"). If you're a photography buff, you might want to organize your pictures into broad categories, such as portraits, landscapes, or animals. As for the "right time," well, there is no right time. There's only your time. You can designate one day a year for uninterrupted scrapbook making. Or maybe one day isn't enough and you want scrapbook making to become an ongoing part of your life. Perhaps you'll want to set aside every Sunday to do some scrapbooking. Or, who knows? You might be so bitten by the scrapbooking needs and desires, and you will create a schedule that fits your lifestyle. Whatever your level of interest or enthusiasm, you should congratulate yourself for having gotten the ball rolling. Excerpted from Scrapbook Workshop. Copyright c1998 by Cynthia Hart. Reprinted with permission by Workman Publishing

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Fully illustrated in both full-color and black and white, Cynthia Hart's Scrapbook Workshop is a step-by-step guide to preserving memories in beautiful, heirloom-quality albums. Included are inventive ways to incorporate writing and drawing; the use of acid-free papers and other archival materials; planning and laying out a memory book; setting up a work space. And all the techniques and tricks of the trade: enlarging, cutting, gluing, ironing, cropping photographs, creating stencils, using decorative-edge scissors. Finally, there are over 30 projects that will inspire enthusiasts: baby books and school books, flower books and travel albums, memory bouquets, and more.