This beautifully presented practical book is a complete guide to the art of scrapbooking. Find out how to create inspired album pages with real personal style. All the materials and equipment you need to get started are clearly detailed. There are hints and tips on taking good photographs, and plenty of ideas for using the pictures creatively. Learn how to use patterns effectively, make collages, work with paint, stamps, stencils, embossing powders, chalk, fabric and stitch. Crammed with fantastic ideas for a myriad of designs, styles of working, album pages, quilts, memory boxes, 3D displays and book covers, this is the ultimate source book for all scrapbookers.

There are no elaborate skills involved in scrapbooking -- all that is required is some imagination to see the potential of cherished objects, materials and photographs, and the time to see the idea through. Containing over 65 step-by-step projects, this new book gives an outstanding range of ideas for scrapbooking, from album pages and covers and display, boards to quilts, memory boxes and concertina books. After a short practical introduction to the materials and the design processes, the rest of the book is devoted to the projects, which include a wedding album cover, a paper quilt wallhanging, a decoupage memory box, a polka-dot mini-album and a family-tree board.