Designer's Eye for Scrapbooking

This book lets me into the world of scrapbooking through a graphic designer's eye. Ali has many great ideas for wonderful layouts. I also love the themes she uses for her pages and she has inspired me to also take these special moments and capture them in my scrapbooking. Her journaling is wonderful and is shown to be a very intregral part of Ali's design of each page. I often go to this book as a begin a new page in my scrapbook. Thanks Ali!

Ali Edward's book is wonderfully inspiring and brimming with fantastic ideas. She is a star in the world of scrapbooking, but she is to real and accessible. I just loved this book. I go to it over and over for ideas and inspiration!

I absolutely love this book, and Ali Edwards! She's got the best style among them -- clean and simple with a lot of heart. Her background as a graphic designer is evident in most of her layouts. All in all, I really recommend you get this book, if not for scraplifting purposes, for a lesson or two on basic graphic design principles. You don't have to be a scrapbooker (I'm not, I'm just a regular college student who loves looking at layouts too much) to appreciate this book. It inspires you to want to take down and remember all the little things in life :)

I have enjoyed this book by Ali Edwards. It breaks down the basics of putting together a scrapbook layout. Here are some chapters... Chapter 1 "Think Before You Speak", unique perspective on journaling your photos. Chapter 4 "Go With the Flow", tips on arranging balance with photos, embellishments, and journaling Chapter 7 "Mind Your Manners", great ideas for putting YOUR personality on a page. Throughout the book are FABULOUS layouts designed by: Ali herself Tina Barriscale Mellette Berezoski Joy Bohon Carrie Colbert The layouts alone are so inspiring but they are really the icing on the cake for this book!

Ali Edwards' book is a wonderful must for the scrapbooker. She breaks down principles of design in an easy to understand, thoughtful way, so that you can use them to make great layouts of your own. Her layouts will inspire you to do so, as they are to the world of scrapbooking what J Crew is to your closet...slightly whimsical, visually clean, well put together, and they always look great, keeping you coming back to them again and again. She demonstrates not only how she uses the carefully described principles in her work, but includes the layouts of several other talented scrapbookers with distinctly different styles to illustrate each underlying principle. This book is a real treasure for both the novice and advanced scrapbooker. Gently encouraging and nudging the artist in each of us, Ali's text is one I return to again and again for inspiration.