Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #158695 in DVD
• Released on: 2004-09-28
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

It's just what you need to get started, to do it right !!
Scrapbooking for Beginners (25 minutes) is what most people need to even begin thinking about creating a decent, interesting memory-filled scrapbook. The key is to create something special with visual enhancements, and most of us need that guidance to produce something special.

If you have a new family, there is a reminder and good hint to start preparing photos early on, rather than doing it all at once. You will appreciate that!

You will learn the importance of acid-free products, such as pen, cardstock paper, sleeve protectors, etc. Don't overlook a simple tool, the ruler!! Yes, don't forget the ruler.

There are good ideas on how to picture taking tips, selecting the best pictures, framing with cardstock, croping, and more important.

Placement of the pictures to draw the eye to the items is critical, filling blank spots, adding memorabilia, and journaling (documenting) the event, people, or dates. Plus, a tip is given on adding little stickers when needed. The color and paper design choices are not especially good, but you get the idea.

The ideas are here, the spark that is needed to get you going, to do it right! Remember, this is for keeps, you don't want to goof it up by having it too simple without interest. ....Rizzo

For the VERY Beginner
I am definitely new to this art but even I thought this was a little too basic. Most of the information covered in this 25 minute video can be read in the first few pages of a beginning scrapbook magazine or book. I also didn't love the layouts that they showed as examples. None of them were visually exciting to me.

I would recommend renting this from a library if you have never heard of scrapbooking before. Otherwise, it's too basic to watch more than once.

Intro to Scrapbooking
This DVD gives the beginner 25 minutes of advice, so it sticks to the very basic scrapbooking techniques. Even after reading a number of books on the topic, this can help a novice feel a little more confident getting started.
It explains what basic tools you need, the importance of acid free paper and pens, and gives a few photography tips. It touches briefly on sorting your pictures, cropping photos and goes into more detail on laying out the page. Seeing how easily the demonstrator matted the photos and what considerations to make for color combinations was reassuring. It also talks about journaling using who/what/where/when/why to get the info onto the page.
It's pretty basic, but if you are a beginner, maybe that's what you need.