Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #86233 in DVD
• Released on: 2008-07-28
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 119 minutes

Review
Craft expert Sharyn Pak comfortably hosts this tutorial. Pak begins by discussing necessary materials (paper, binders, embellishments, tools) and offering basic safety tips. She recommends organizing pages and photographs by theme, choosing six (birthday, newborn baby, pets, Christmas, little boys, and vacation) for her lessons, which begin with a captioned list of supplies and tools. As Pak carefully selects background paper, crops photographs, and adds stickers and other embellishments to the project, she demonstrates how to safely use a cutting knife and paper punches and how to add paint to the designs. The camera moves from over the shoulder to front to fully capture the instructor s work. Onscreen titles reinforce important points and recap necessary materials. Easy to follow and packed with professional tips, this will be popular with scrapbooking enthusiasts. --Booklist (American Library Association)

Review
My great-great grandmother started a scrapbook in 1862, but despite family tradition, I myself panic when I try to work on my son s album. Modern scrapbooking seems to feature so many rules ­ and requires so much expensive paraphernalia that it s downright intimidating. Taking a kinder, gentler tack, host Sharyn Pak reminds viewers here to have fun don t stress as she demonstrates scrapbooking with six different project themes (birthday, baby, pet, Christmas, little boy, and vacation) using a wide variety of materials (cardstock, rulers, X-ACTO knives, scissors, glues and stickers) and techniques. Pak progressively brings more complexity to each layout, eventually adding ribbons, raffia, rope, diecuts, paints, tags, feathers, beads, slide mounts even a tiny bottle as embellishments (she also points out how to make letters on vellum using a home printer). A solid production that employs overhead camera angles, as well as close-up shots to clearly illustrate Pak s work, this is recommended. (3 out of 4 stars) --Video Librarian

About the Actor
Sharyn Pak (host), a founder of On Air Video, is a craft expert and on-air personality. Sharyn combines her passion for crafts with her gift for nurturing other crafters.