Tags Reinvented: New Approaches to Creating Scrapbook Tags
by Erikia Ghumm

Take your tag art up a notch with the creative resourcefulness and outside-the-box ideas featured in this compilation that revisits and
revitalizes a scrapbooking favorite! While you'll recognize products and techniques you currently know and love, you'll be introduced to fresh
approaches for working with these much-loved, must-have scrapbook page adornments. Whether you are looking to experiment with
new materials and formats or are simply searching for ways to spice up your current style,
Tags Reinvented is the resource to get your creative wheels turning.

Inside Tags Reinvented
• More than 200 inventive tag ideas that run the gamut of artistic styles and tastes, including simplistic, elaborate, altered, retro, vintage,
contemporary and shabby chic
• Fantastic ideas for creating tags using 39 different materials, including beads, bottle caps, can lids, fabric, glass, handmade papers, modern ephemera,
polymer clay, ribbon, stickers, transparencies and more
• Dozens of inspiring scrapbook pages form Erikia's personal albums that artfully showcase ways to feature cutting-edge tags
• Illustrated step-by-step instructions for eye-catching techniques, including stamping, distressing, altering, painting,
colorizing, embellishing, sculpting, embossing and more

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Montage Memories: Creating Altered Scrapbook Pages
by Erikia Ghumm & Pamela Frye Hauer

The "altered book look" is all the rage with its texture, powerful montage photo displays, distressed embellishments and
rustic heritage appeal. Now you can bring the uniqueness of the altered look to your own scrapbook pages and Montage Memories will show you how.
Learn to stamp, crumple and distress paper, embellish with unique supplies, manipulate photos for special effects and create one-of-a-kind lettering.

Inside Montage Memories
• Exciting techniques for creating stunning backgrounds including: brayer painting, masking words and images, inking embossed paper, laminating layers,
making handmade paper, creating a decoupage collage, making faux mosaics
• Unique methods for manipulating photos including: transferring photos to glass, fabric and other surfaces; photo montaging; printing cyanotypes;
embellishing photos; photo aging; tearing and reassembling photos
• Fresh ideas for journaling and titles including: metal stamping letters, glass etching, ransom note journaling, working with paint glaze,
dimensional lettering and a must-be-seen altered alphabet
• Novel methods for creating eye-catching embellishments including: decorating with laminate chips, paper casting, utilizing craft plastic,
making handmade stamps, embellishing with clay
• Illustrated step-by-step instructions for techniques as well as inspirational scrapbook pages making this cutting-edge book
from America's #1 scrapbooking publisher a must have for scrapbookers of all levels

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