Books and Magazines as Scrapbooking Tools

Books and Magazines make Great Scrapbooking Tools

Do you ever think of using books and magazines for scrapbook content?Kelli Crowe discusses scrapbooking and the techniques she uses to gain layout ideas and content creation, and she gives insight into publications available for scrappers of all skill level. Whether you need to learn to better organize your scrapbooking material, ideas for journaling methods or journaling topics, she shows you the instructional books that she recommends and uses. Also notice the books in the photo below. You may want to keep a lot of resource information available to stimulate fresh scrapbooking ideas

photo credit: Charles & Hudson?

In addition to books, she names and presents a number of scrapbookingmagazines. She provides the names of magazine publishers in addition to the magazine titles so you can search for the publications that interest you. If you are an artist, photographer or simply a collector of photos for archival reasons, she’ll show you books that may pique your interest and benefit you, too.

Do you enjoy magazines? What is it about the magazines that you like that makes you want to collect them? Kelli will show you how to use that beloved stack of mags to sharpen your design skills! Whether it’s the graphic design of a page, the colors or the content, why are you attracted to a magazine? By analyzing these thoughts, what can you learn about yourself, and can you copy the page layout styles created by professional graphic artists?

Books and magazines, Magazines Barnes and Noble December 2007—brewbooks (Flickr.com)

How do you collect and store your ideas that you have not yet developed into a memory book? Kelli shows her storage method and discusses how she uses it. And quotes, how do you keep track of those special sayings that mean so much to you? Watch the video and see what she does to keep track of it all. If you are new to scrapbooking, you will find this demonstration invaluable.