This source book is loaded with ideas for using traditional scrapbooking techniques to enhance your home decor and turn ordinary everyday items into great gifts or to recycle discarded articles and found objects for further functionality. It shows you how to transform and personalise almost anything by incorporating photos and mementos combined with scrapbook paper, card stock and embellishments. Gorgeous photographs of every project in a home setting will inspire you and step-by-step instructions and photographs show you how; Fun, quirky and unusual projects; Fabulous gifts and keepsakes; Finishes range from simple and stylish to bold and over the top; Recycle tins, jars, pallet wood, frames and even shopping bags. Preserving memories in clever, creative ways, putting them on display on your walls and shelves or turning them into much appreciated gifts remain the focus. This book will soon have you look at almost any item as a possible canvas for photos and collage. From a small, photo-lined envelope to a huge display door made from pallet-wood, the more than 55 projects in the book will appeal to crafters of a wide range of skills and experience.

Hierdie nuttige boek is propvol idees vir die gebruik van tradisionele fotoplaktegnieke om jou huis te verfraai, gewone alledaagse artikels in lieflike geskenke te omskep of weggooigoed en optelgoed vir verdere gebruik te herwin en op te dollie. Dit wys jou hoe om bykans enigiets om te tower en persoon-spesifiek te maak deur foto's en onthougoed slim met fotoplakpapier, karton en tooisels te kombineer. Lieflike foto's van elke projek in 'n huisomgewing sal jou inspireer terwyl die geillustreerde stap-vir-stap aanwysings jou wys hoe; Prettige, ongewone en vindingryke projekte; Fantastiese geskenke en beregoed; Afwerkings wissel van stylvol en eenvoudig tot uitbundig en oordadig; Herwinning van blikke, flesse, bottels, hout-pallette, rame en selfs inkoopsakke. Die fokus van die boek is om herinneringe op slim en kreatiewe maniere te bewaar deur items te skep wat op jou mure en rakke ten toon gestel kan word. Met hierdie boek sal jy kort voor lank na net mooi enigiets as 'n moontlike skilderdoek kyk. Die meer as 55 projekte in die boek wissel van 'n klein koevert met 'n fotobinneblad, tot 'n groot vertoondeur van pallethout en sal byval vind by handwerkers met uiteenlopende agtergronde en vaardigheidsvlakke.