Product Description

In this imaginative, creative resource, award-winning scrapbook designer Cory Richardson-Lauve leads you on a celebration of the divine connection you can experience through scrapbooking. Weaving her own insights, techniques and artwork with the reflections and layouts of other professional scrapbookers and the wisdom of spiritual thinkers, Richardson-Lauve reveals how this innovative and dynamic craft can become a practice used to deepen and shape your life.

Each chapter includes an original scrapbooking project with dozens of variations--for both cut-and-paste and digital artists, beginning scrapbookers and published designers alike--that helps you explore a theme essential to both your designs and your spirituality.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #479764 in Books
• Published on: 2007-03
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9781594732164
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Review
"Absolutely delightful. Captures and expresses the true beauty of scrapbooking through words and images. Prepare to be inspired and empowered. Highest recommendations." -- Ali Edwards, author of A Designer's Eye for Scrapbooking series; creative editor, Creating Keepsakes

"Truly inspiring! Filled with timeless information and creative ideas that will bring new depth not only to how you scrapbook but to how you live each day of your life. You need to read this book before you plan another page!" -- Marielen Christensen, originator of the current scrapbooking concept; founder of Keeping Memories Alive and scrapbooks.com

About the Author
Cory Richardson-Lauve is a scrapbooker, designer, teacher and artist whose layouts have been featured in many idea books, magazines and websites. In 2004 she was a winner in Simple Scrapbooks's Coolest Album Ever Contest; in 2005 she won an Honorable Mention in the Creating Keepsakes's Hall of Fame Contest; she was a featured artist in Simple Scrapbooks's "Digital Scrapbooking 4" special issue; and was a member of the creative team for Simple Scrapbooks's Digital Scrapbooking Magazine in 2007. For more information and further reading, visit her website.

Customer Reviews

A book to get you to think outside your scrapping "comfort zone"
I love this book. It is not a how-to manual for beginning scrapbookers, but rather a group of prompts for you to think in new ways about this hobby and how you can make it more meaningful and personal by taking it in some new directions.

Lovely little book...
While not a richly visual book, like you would typically expect from a book about scrapbooking, this is nevertheless a wonderful manual about how to dig deeper into the memories and ideas that you are trying to preserve in the first place with your scrapbooks. And by doing so, you will inevitably discover more about yourself and who you are.

Written in the first person, the author is friendly and encouraging as she shares her own journeys through Resonance, Equilibrium, Movement, Awareness, Expression, Awakening, Celebration, and Connection. You cannot help but read her words and want to do her exercises so that you, too, can ponder what the event or person you are scrapbooking means to you, and use language to express that.

I will say that the book, like much of the scrapbooking world, is heavily weighted towards the beautiful and joyful. I think that is natural, since those are the times and memories we enjoy most. I strongly believe, however, that scrapbooking can also be an excellent way to work through the parts of life that aren't typically scrapbooked - coming to terms with a child with a disability, or with someone who has Alzheimers, and so on. While these may not be pages you'd readily share with the world at large, they would be invaluable as a truly meaningful and intimate window to your own soul to pass down through your family. And also in terms of gaining even more self- awareness. But perhaps that is a subject for another book.

Anyway, your scrapbooks will be even more meaningful, and much richer, if you take the time to work through this book and apply the ideas to your pages. Five stars.

The Scrapbooking Journey
As an avid scrapbooker I was wanting a book that would help me with my spiritual journey. I purchased this book for doing just that; it provides eight major areas: resonance, equilibrium, movement, awareness, expression, awakening, celebration and connection.

The only thing I was disappointed with was the lack of colour photos, instead they had just been included in a special section of the book. Otherwise, a good book worth a read.