The portable guide to popular paper crafts
The 2006 Craft & Hobby Association Attitude and Usage Study ranks scrapbooking and memory crafts as the leader in total consumer spending, with nearly 17 million households participating. From 2006 to 2007, participation in "Other Paper Crafts" grew 53 percent. With concise instructions, lots of photos, and a lay-flat concealed spiral binding, this compact guide shows crafters how to do everything from cropping photos and embellishing scrapbook pages to making ultra-hot artist trading cards. It includes tips and techniques for creating terrific greeting cards, invitations, announcements, and gift tags. It also covers techniques like rubber stamping, journaling, quilling, and paper embroidery.
Rebecca Ludens (Kalamazoo, MI) is the Scrapbooking Guide for About.com. She serves as an instructor at consumer scrapbook shows, Creating Keepsakes University, and retail stores and has appeared on several episodes of the television show DIY Scrapbooking. Jennifer Schmidt (Crystal Lake, IL) has been on the design team for several scrapbooking manufacturers. She has been teaching scrapbooking classes for more than eight years at conventions across the country and has had pages published in scrapbooking magazines and displayed on DIY Scrapbooking.
