Making Family Journals: Projects and Ideas for Sharing and Recording Memories Together

by Linda Blinn

Book Overview

'Making Family Journals' is a comprehensive and inspirational collection of how-to projects and activities, from handmade family trees to photo scrapbooks, to travel journals, family recipe books and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1592532284
• ISBN13: 9781592532285
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Quarry Books
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.8" x 10.9"

Customer Reviews

A Real Keeper...Don't Miss This One!

Scrapbooking is all about recording family memories in a creative way, so I was pleasantly surprised to find a book that contains not only the personal family journals of a few well-known scrapbook artists, but the expeiences that inpsired the work, and their ideas on how the reader can incorporate these ideas into similar scrapbooks. This book takes family journaling to a whole new level. The book shows the various journals and then gives ideas -- jumpstarts, if you will, for how the reader can create a similar work that reflects their own family memories. That's the beauty of this book. It's not only provides eye-candy, but great ideas and instructions. For example, on page 26 we are introduced to The Strine family's Time Capsule created by Allison Strine (and the credits for each piece contains ALL the names of the family members, not just the name of the individual artist -- I love that special touch!). On the opposite page is a sidebar that contains ideas for things the reader can collect to create their own time capsule. I fell in love with the Adolph family's "South of the Border" journal designed by the children of Christine Adolph. The journal was created while on a family cruise vacation and the along with photos are ideas on what to gather during YOUR family vacations so you can create your own journal. Throughout the book each artist shares her ideas on how you can create journals just like theirs with your own artistic and familial bent. This is no doubt one of my very favorite art books because it brings to mind what scrapbooking is all about...our own personal memories gathered together in our own artistic way. This is not about what the magazines are looking for, but what our families treasure most. Awesome book. I'll keep it forever! Enjoy, Cris Cunningham

Fantastic Inspiration

This is an incredibly inspiring book. I own many books expanding on mixed media art and this book is by far the most inspiring, creative, colorful and delightful that I've run in to. The techniques are described sufficiently enough to get you headed in the right direction and encourages your own artistic touch. There is enough variety to keep you trying new techniques and ideas for a long time to come. This has become my most favorite of my collection. I will be coming back to this one over and over again! Enjoy!