Synopses & Reviews
Take Your Scrapbooking Out of Bounds
Life is full of rules, both written and unspoken - and scrapbooking is no exception. Rules are great guidelines, but they can quickly become boundaries that stifle creativity. It's time to Cut Loose and break free from the confines of typical scrapbooking to breathe new life into your pages.
With tons of great layouts that illustrate how to break 30 common scrapbooking rules, Cut Loose is bound to spark a bit of rebel in you, and get you creating in fresh new ways. Layouts illustrating how to break rules like only good photos should be used and patterned paper must match will open your eyes to conventional rules you might not even realize you're following, then show you how to push yourself to create without limits.
Dare to be different with: Creative challenges for breaking the rules in the bookStep-by-step instructions for fun techniques like making custom stamps, flocking letters, creating pompoms and embossing paperMakeovers showing the same layouts both following and breaking the rulesA gallery of over 120 cut loose scrapbook pagesLearn how to ignore the shoulds and really Cut Loose.
Synopsis
For many scrapbookers, there are "shoulds" that they feel they must keep in mind whenever creating a page: each layout should have a title, photo and journaling, each page should be about a person or a pet, each layout should be symmetrical. In Cut Loose, the author teaches readers that the only "should" in scrapbooking is that it should be fun. She encourages readers to cast aside the "shoulds" of scrapbooking and free themselves to create the layouts that are unique to them. Thirty creative jumpstarts are set forth accompanied by corresponding layouts that illustrate to readers how they can break the rules of the "shoulds" and create the scrapbook pages they want to make.