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Scrapbook Styles: Fabrics & Florals by Jill Miller
Watson-Guptill Publications 2006, 80 pages

Reported By Donna Lannerd

I am a textile person. I like to feel fabrics and yarns. I have always like the idea of scrapbooking but to just work with paper never took hold of me like fiberarts, but I have tons of photos. I have boxes of print photos. I have files upon files of digital photos. I really need to do something with them. That is why I was so excited to find this book and I cannot put it down.

Jill Miller has compiled an impressive collection of ideas for you to use, not only with fabrics but ribbons, yarns, keepsakes and silk flowers. She also shows pages using quilting as inspiration for your scrapbook pages by using papers and photos as part of the quilt pattern. Another one of her ideas is creating a digital page and embellishing it with fabric trims after printed. You can also see pages with papers machine and handstitched to the background page. One of the more unusual ideas is using a shirt and tie to cover a page and then adorned with photos. The ideas are really limitless.

The book has beautiful photographs of Jill Miller's scrapbook pages and even the pages of the book are done in a scapbook style. Each page shown has a photo, description of the project, materials used and level (beginner, intermediate, advanced). This is an idea book and lacks step-by-step tutorials but it will give you a good sense of design elements without all the technical jargon. It is a source of great inspiration.

I have started this page using ideas from the book. Although she has used tape to attach fabric to a cardstock sheet, I used Heat-n-Bond to fuse my cat fabric and paper together. I matted my photos onto cardstock that I pen-stitched the edges as shown in the book. I tore a strip of fabric, stamped my images, then did a running stitch to attach it to the page. You can see the penstitching and running stitch better in the close up.


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