Simply Graphic: Clean & Crisp Design for Scrapbook Pages

By Memory Makers

If you love the look of scrapbook pages with clean lines, simple and crisp imagery, bold fonts and open space, then this book is for you. Influenced by the world of graphic design, "Simply Graphic"... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1892127784
• ISBN13: 9781892127785
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Memory Makers
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.5" x 0.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

simply graphic/simply helpful

I really enjoyed this book. If you take the time to read most of it and not just glance at it as an idea book, you may just learn something. I found alot of inspiring ideas and helpful hints for what I have recently learned to be (one of) my prefered method of scrapbooking (check out "Find Your Groove" to learn more about what your scrapbooking style is). I like the look of clean pages with graphic elements and clean crisp lines and that's exactly what you'll find in this book. However, there are a few negatives about this book: 1. 99.9% of the journaling is typed, not handwritten, which leads me to believe that the graphic style is not acceptive of handwritten, thus personal jounaling which I find to be a necessary part of scrapbooking. But I suppose you can still be drawn to the graphic style of scrapbooking and still incorporate your own handwritten jounaling. 2. Most of the sample scrapbook pages in this book have only 1 picture on it which drives me crazy. As a scrapbooker who is trying to catch up on 7 years of photos, I fully believe in getting the most out of one page as possible. But again, it's not impossible to incorporate more photos on a scrapbook page while still trying to impose the graphic style. You just need to find a balance between simple, graphic pages with some handwritten journaling and more photos per page. I believe it IS possible to have both. All in all, I still heaped the benefits from this book. I still haven't quite decided if it is worth a purchase or just another trip to the library for this one. My advice is to check it out of the library first and see for yourself if you can't learn something from this book.