Scrapbooking With Cricut
by Edited by Tanya Fox
Love
scrapbooking but find it hard to think of the perfect layout? We
all get moments like that when faced with a pile of photographs.
But with the help of a Cricut diecutting machine and this book,
you should never be stuck again…well, not for a good long
time anyway.
Even if, like this reviewer, you don’t own a Cricut, these
simple but delightfully clean-cut and tidy layouts are likely to
inspire. I love the way they don’t swamp the photographs with
too much bewildering pattern, but carry the theme with a few choice
words and images. Patterned papers are used, but the paper used
is mainly plain in a huge number of shapes and combinations.
Another
good feature is that the photos themselves are absent from the layout,
which is not something I have seen in other scrapbooking books.
Usually it is all too easy to get caught up in somebody else’s
personal story, detracting from the basic idea. There are layouts
for most occasions and holidays, organized in month order.
Choose
from New Year, wedding, Easter, baby, Thanksgiving, Christmas, back
to school, vacation, etc., as well as less often featured events
such as Cinco de Mayo and Hanukkah. Following the simple instructions
is easy, and there is a helpful list of what you need with each
project. You might have to invest in quite a lot of dies if you
want to make a lot of different pages, but this book does not make
use of the vast array of other scrapbooking paraphernalia that magazines
love to list.
At
the very back is a list of suppliers, but anybody outside the US
will need to look elsewhere for their stock. Overall I was impressed
with the back-to-basics look at this hobby, and anybody else who
is tired of the rather overblown look of many scrapbooking layouts
will surely agree.
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The
Book |
Annie’s Attic (Distributed in the UK by Search Press) |
August 2010 |
Paperback |
1596353236 / 9781596353237 |
genre |
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|| UK |
Excerpt |
NOTE: Various holiday layouts |
The
Reviewer |
Rachel A Hyde |
Reviewed 2010 |
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