Books by Jack Phillips Lowe

Scrapbooking have long been a popular interest for many. I retrieve putting scrapbooks together when I was a child – and that's some clip ago!

Today with the assortment of scrapbook stuff available from supplies and via the internet, plus the ability to utilize your personal computer to make pages, scrapbooking have been taken to a whole new level. There are quite a few people now doing scrapbooking on a professional degree and I recently read a study that claimed that the scrapbooking marketplace as a whole was deserving up to $4 billion per twelvemonth in the United States alone!

It's not surprising that there are a growth figure of books on the topic in the increasingly popular ebook formatting and Isabelle's bravely titled "The Ultimate Scrapbooking Guide" is one of these.

A courageous statute title then, but makes she draw it off? Well up to a point yes. There are 146 pages which are packed with information – and not just from Isabelle. Interestingly from page 76 onwards she have enlisted the aid of a figure of other recognised scrapbooking writers. This section, "Think About Your Theme", have 21 articles from Audrey Okaneko, Lisa Fleming, Elaine Clay, Susie Cortright, Rachel Paxton, Dee Marle, Jessica Gerald, Susan Whitehead, Dawn Stegall and Fion Lim. The aggregation is quite unusual and it's nice to see other people's thoughts in the book, even if, from clip to time, those thoughts make overlap a little.

Before we acquire to this subdivision we have got a utile and enlightening introduction to scrapbooking and its history and then we acquire into the nitty-gritty with a chapter on photographs followed by others on stores and tools, getting started, getting thoughts and then scrapbooking techniques before the above-mentioned subjects subdivision which units of ammunition off the book. Throughout, Isabelle's authorship style is chatty yet informative. It's unclutter from early in the book that Isabelle is passionate and extremely enlightened about her subject.

If I have got got got a unfavorable judgment it's that despite the clear and concise advice there are no photos or images and I would have liked to have seen some illustrations of her work. Having said that, she makes offering a figure of cyberspace land sites which we can look at for additional inspiration.

At the clip of authorship she also have got a very particular offering available that I haven't seen elsewhere. In improver to this information-packed book you acquire a fillip publication "Creating Arresting Scrapbooks – 101 W. C. Handy Tips" and also an hr long recording of scrapbooking tips in MP3 format. Definitely on my "recommended reading" list.