Scraptastic!: 50 Messy, Sparkly, Touch-Feely, Snazzy Ways to Jazz Up Your Scrapbook Pages

By Ashley Calder and TurtleMe

Book Overview

Jazz up your pages Get ready to infuse your scrapbook layouts with messy, sparkly, snazzy and exciting new techniques. Go beyond the usual-experiment with art supplies, try unfamiliar tools, go wild... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1599630117
• ISBN13: 9781599630113
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Krause Publications
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 0.3" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Love this Book

I am a professional collage artist and I own many books on paper and collage and what to do with it. I LOVE this book. I never would have bought it for the "scrapbooking" content, but for the instructions and ideas for dressing up the paper yourself, it is truly a must have item. Great instructions, great photos, all easy to understand and wonderful and easy to do with easy to get art supplies. Messy and beautiful and real - a great step to personal journaling - which is why I purchased it.

Makes me want to get messy

I have converted to digital scrapbooking a while ago but this book makes me want to go out, get paint and glitter and get messy. Thanks for the inspiration!!

Loved It!

I'm not normally a fan of scrapbooking books - in fact, they usually dissapoint me! But this one is really amazing. I came into scrapbooking from studying collage and other altered arts in school. I love how much this book teaches you, and how REAL the author's pages are! Lovely, lovely book, I'm going to recommend it to all of my scrapbooking friends!

Gorgeous and Wonderful book!

This is my favorite book to date. I have long admired Ashley Calder as I spotted her distinctive style of scrapbooking in the pages of every major scrapbook magazine out there! She was part of the Autumn Leaves design team and ended up in several of their "Designing With" books as well as last year's Designing With Desk Calendar. I am always amazed at how unique her pages are. This book is definitely for the scrapbooker who wants to do something a little different than her usual page. But I don't believe that traditional scrapbookers will not find this book useful; I think every type of scrapbooker can learn something from the techniques Ashley shares. Ashley's style is definitely freestyle/anything goes and almost always uses multiple photos in each layout. I know how hard it is to find good multiple photo sketches out there... there are some great ideas for how to scrap this way. Ashley goes over 50 techniques and, while you do not get an in-depth overview of how to do watercolor or gold leaf, you get one example of using each new product with great pictures, tips and product lists. The subtitle of this book is: 50 Messy, Sparkly, Touchy-Feely, Snazzy Ways to Jazz Up your Scrapbook pages. That's exactly what this is. I highly recommend the book for expanding your idea of scrapbooking.

Finally something that doesn't scream TRADITION

This book is great for different ideas and ways to do things. I'm always looking for a different funky touch to pull into my pages and make them my own and this book is full of them. It's also nice that the book not only shows you ideas but lets you know now to execute them unlike a lot of other books. In a world full of "traditional" scrapbooking how to's, this one is a must have for everyone who considers themselves to be outside the box.