Craft Solutions

While I was having dinner with a friend the other night, she showed me some of the neatest scrapbook page designs. I loved the combinations of embellishments and the coloring of the photos that she used. My friend told me she put everything together herself from old mix and match supplies she had lying around the house.

I like to scrapbook, but it seems I struggle where my friend strives. I can never come up with themes and combinations that look like a professional designer put them together unless I buy a themed kit. I want my ideas to be creative and unique, not carbon copies of a kit layout.

So I turned to the Internet for help and found these great books:

• Scrapbook Inspiration
  Jumpstart your creativity! We’ll show you how to find inspiration for your scrapbooks through: the outside world clothing and fashion home decor greeting cards and paper goods and more! And you’ll love our helpful special appendix on content, subject matter and journaling inspiration.

• Outstanding Scrapbook Pages
  250 Of the Best Pages and Techniques from the World’s #1 Scrapbooking Magazine

• That’s Life: Finding Scrapbook Inspiration in the Everyday
  With its fresh, humorous approach to the seemingly mundane, That’s Life offers scrapbookers insightful ways to depict their everyday lives through their art.

I hope these resources help as you strive to create your own beautiful pages.