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Some more page designs.

Start of my book

This is a rough draft example of a page from the book I plan on making. The text on the left are just the notes I have right now.

Video

So this is my first stab at making my random scrapbook video.
I'm not really sure that this is a direction I'm going to continue to go, but I figured I would try it out.

It's kind of blurry and weird but it's fine for now.

Guide Book

So I've decided I'm making a guide book about other practices related to scrapbooks. It will be divided by practice and include some information about the practice, actual examples of it, and then my version of it. It would be kind of an idea book for scrapbookers to use, they could incorporate some of these practices, or just use it to learn about them.

List of Some Practices
Friendship Albums (alba amicorum)
Artist's Sketchbooks
Photo Albums
Autograph Albums
Books containing stored/forgotten items
Collage Art
Victorian photo-collages
Commonplace Books
Fashion Designers idea books
Diaries
Extra-Illustration books
Guest Books
Hair Albums
Index Rerum
Journals
Mugshot Books
Pressed Flowers
Scrapbooks
Sketchbooks
Yearbooks

A few of my newer pages

A few Vogue Pages





A few of my polka dot pages





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Now playing: Michael Jackson - The Way You Make Me Feel
via FoxyTunes

Jen Stark

I'm not sure how related to scrapbooking this is, but this girl does wicked cool stuff with paper so I figured I'd post it.
http://jenstark.com/sculpture_01.html

Obsessions

Fred Lynch suggested that I make embarrassingly obsessive scrapbooks, like about polka dots...since I had lots of them in my scrapbooks already. So some things I'm obsessed with:


Polka dots, especially pink
Polka dotted shoes=even better

The TV show Glee
The Beatles



Kimball Farm Ice cream! (where I work)


I really want to make a Glee scrapbook!!


Fred also suggested that I do more unconventional scrapbooking. Not good memories but bad memories, or fears. I like this idea but I'm not sure how to go about doing it.

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Now playing: Glee Cast - Don't Stop Believin' (Glee Cast Version)
via FoxyTunes

Famous Scrapbookers?

So I found on a site a short list of "some of today's most famous scrapbookers"

• Lisa Bearnson, founder of Creating Keepsakes magazine, brought scrapbooking into the public eye by teaching new scrappers easy ways to preserve their memories. http://www.lisabearnson.com/
• Becky Higgins, a regular contributor to Creating Keepsakes, is best known for her sketches that offer both beginning and experienced scrapbookers a simple way to design attractive layouts. http://www.beckyhiggins.com/
  
• Cathy Zielske, a former graphic designer, popularized the Clean and Simple Scrapbooking craze by creating gorgeous layouts featuring cardstock backgrounds and lots of black and white photos. http://cathyzielske.typepad.com/
• Ali Edwards took scrapbooking to new heights by popularizing the term "life artist" to describe a scrapper who uses her talents to create layouts as well as other unique photo display projects. http://aliedwards.typepad.com/
  
• Elsie Flannigan's whimsical doodles and colorful designs make her a favorite scrapbooker among those searching for contemporary inspiration. http://www.abeautifulmess.typepad.com/
  

Pages I've done for class so far

I don't know what happened to this last one, I must have cropped it by accident when I scanned it...

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A short article I found about scrapbooking

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/03/01/scrapbook_yes_scrapbooking_no/

Tim Holtz

http://www.timholtz.typepad.com/

http://www.timholtz.com/index.html

Tim Holtz's blog and website.
I don't really know who he is but everyone at the scrapbooking store in my town gets really excited when he comes to do workshops.

wow.

A SCRAPBOOK CRUISE!
hahahaha, I should totally go on this!

http://www.scrapmap.com/sm_ultimate_1110.html

A blog I found...

http://lifeaslou.blogsome.com/personal-scrapbooks/

Findings!

Some things I found to start my project...

My first blog!

Yay! I made my first blog!