Artful Memories

Artful Memories

Author:    Sprenger, Tena
              Wingert, Carol
Publisher: North Light Books
Keeping memories is so much more than just sliding photographs into the plastic sleeves of a photo album - it's an art form. Find inspiration in everyday items - like clipboards, fabric and even cabinet doors - and use them to creatively display your photographs. Create all kinds of memory art, including sophisticated scrapbook layouts using paper and fabric, books with pages made of everything from transparency sheets to canvas, and personalized art for your walls. Alter and enhance photos with art supplies, like watercolor, acrylic paint, tar gel and even a Polaroid Day Lab machine. From image transfers to book binding, Artful Memories combines the hottest techniques in the memory art world to help crafters make the most of their treasured memories. You'll find projects you love in each of the four chapters: Paper Arts, Fabric Arts, Book Arts and Wall Arts. And you'll be inspired by the work contributed by some of the biggest names making memory art today that fills the galleries at the end of each chapter.