Better Scrapbooking

Rating:
Summary: Nice presentation of old techniques.
Review: For the novice scrapbooker, this book will be a great help. For myself, I give it only 3 stars because it mostly contains ideas for your pages that have been covered before, such as embossing, stamping, stitching on paper, stickers, etc. I did find the chapters on tole painting on pages and collage to be insightful, but not worth the price of the entire book. One nice thing about the layout is that the instructions are very clear and easy to follow, so if you are new to scrapbooking and looking for ways to jazz up your pages, this book might be the ticket!

Rating:
Summary: Nice presentation of old techniques.
Review: For the novice scrapbooker, this book will be a great help. For myself, I give it only 3 stars because it mostly contains ideas for your pages that have been covered before, such as embossing, stamping, stitching on paper, stickers, etc. I did find the chapters on tole painting on pages and collage to be insightful, but not worth the price of the entire book. One nice thing about the layout is that the instructions are very clear and easy to follow, so if you are new to scrapbooking and looking for ways to jazz up your pages, this book might be the ticket!

Rating:
Summary: Great Details
Review: I love the way you present this book. Lots of color and the pages tell the story. Index lists is great. Sample are easy to see,read, and follow.

Rating:
Summary: Not that great a buy
Review: Though this book looked great on "paper," it fell way short of what was promised. I didn't learn anything new from this book or see anything much different from other scrapbooking guides. Lots of the same old techniques were covered, and I wasn't even that impressed with the way those techniques were handled. I guess if you have never done any scrapbooking -- or if you've never SEEN a scrapbook -- this book might impress you, but it didn't impress me. I wish I hadn't spent money on this one.

Rating:
Summary: Not that great a buy
Review: Though this book looked great on "paper," it fell way short of what was promised. I didn't learn anything new from this book or see anything much different from other scrapbooking guides. Lots of the same old techniques were covered, and I wasn't even that impressed with the way those techniques were handled. I guess if you have never done any scrapbooking -- or if you've never SEEN a scrapbook -- this book might impress you, but it didn't impress me. I wish I hadn't spent money on this one.