I had a very good mail day on Saturday. Two books arrived that I had contributed to. It was so fun to see the final projects!
The first book is by CK and is called The Joy of Scrapbooking. This is a revised updated version of the original Joy of Scrapbooking that came out years ago. It is a great resource for beginners as it covers all the basic principles of scrapbook design. All of the artists that contributed did such a great job showing updated tips and techniques while still keeping their layouts fairly basic. Here is the cover of the book and a link to buy it on Amazon:
Here is one of my layouts in the book that is fitting for the current season! I loved having both my girls in matching costumes last year as it made for great photos. This year one is going to be a Hollywood Starlet and the other Candy Corn, so I'm afraid I won't get these type of photos!
The second book is by a dear friend of mine, Sherry Steveson called When Life Gives You Lemons. It is about how to turn "sour photos into sweet scrapbook pages". This book also has some amazing contributors and Sherry did such a great job on all of her pages - I have no idea how she got them all done! Every page she makes has some new interesting technique on it that makes you want to know how she did it. This is her first book and she has another in the works that will be out early next year.
Here is the cover image and a link to buy it on Amazon:
And last, here is one of my layouts from this book. I had this photo of Sophie standing in front of a cow and I loved it, but the background was very distracting and had a lot of colors I didn't want to stand out. So I drew around Sophie and the cow in white marker and then covered the background of the photo with paper punched into small circles and lots of Love, Elsie embellishments. It came out a little crazy, but I liked how the background no longer showed. I am so going to miss all the fun Love, Elsie lines!
Have a great day! Suzy
Why will you miss Love, Elsie? Have I missed something?
Posted by: jkhenson | October 15, 2008 at 05:14 PM
Suzy, these are amazing! So happy for you/proud of you - you know how much I think you rock!
XOXO
Posted by: kelly | October 15, 2008 at 07:09 PM
Fab layouts Suzy!! I had a chance to peek at the Joy of Scrapbooking and saw your great pages in there (along with Amber's). Go you!! :)
Posted by: Linda | October 18, 2008 at 09:59 PM
Amazing Suzy! Your layouts are beautiful- I flipped through that Joy of Scrapbooking book in the store the other day. Lots of good stuff in there!
Posted by: Melinda | October 20, 2008 at 02:41 PM
Adorable pages, as usual, my friend! What's going on with Love, Elsie? Her stuff is so cute....is she not designing anymore?
Posted by: Denine | October 20, 2008 at 05:23 PM
I thought i had commented on this one!!! I enjoyed looking at ALL of your layouts in "The Joy of Scrapbooking" when we went to Archiver's last weekend. I didn't see Sherry's book. I love that pirate layout.
Posted by: Kristi Smith | October 22, 2008 at 08:11 PM