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Description of book
Don't let treasured photographs languish unseen in dusty albums! A picture frame, a document box, a clear glass vase, even an article of clothing make great showcases for telling your life story in pictures. With a color copier or laser printer, these images can grace any number of decorative items. Open up those scrapbooks and journals to find a wealth of material for découpage, transfers, and designs. All the techniques for cutting, cropping, copying, and preservation are explained here, with over 40 unique projects that include a Vacation Memory Box, with travel rubbings and leaf pressings; personalized calendar; 3-Panel Desk Screen; Baby Door Sign; Beaded Photo Purse; and Beveled Glass Ornament. Every time you look at one of these magnificent items, all the memories of great times past will come rushing back to you!
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
Scrapbooks may be the most obvious way to corral treasured photographs, but many other items also lend themselves to memory crafting. In
Memory Gifts: Preserving Your Treasured Past in Special Ways, Marie Browning offers an assortment of ideas for utilizing photos in home accessories and a few wearables.
Through such methods and media as decoupage, polymer clay, image transfer, pour- on resin, and mounting under glass and mica, Browning adorns boxes, decorative plates, candles, desk accessories, switch plates, coasters, pillows, T-shirts, jewelry, frames, and ornaments. Sometimes she combines photos with relevant trinkets, like seashells--to commemorate a seaside vacation--on a straw wreath, or sports memorabilia in a shadowbox.
--Amy Handy
Joann.com
Preserve family memories in unique and creative ways using these project ideas from noted author and crafter Marie Browning. Projects include a document box, a picture frame; even wearables that will spotlight treasured moments. This soft cover book is 128 pages of creative innovation.
Legacy Magazine
Wondering what to do with those boxes of photographs stashed in your closet? Instead of sticking them in an album or frame, try one of the creative projects featured in
Family Photocrafts. Through large color photographs accompanied by step-by-step instructions, author Marie Browning demonstrated how to use decoupage, image transferring, resin, wax and other techniques for turning photos into family heirlooms. Among the projects shown here: calendars, candles, coasters, pillows, puzzles, T-0shirts, tote bags, buttons, aprons – even night-lights.
Family Photocrafts offers plenty of clever ideas for making gifts and keepsakes that celebrate the past in an artistic way.
Reviews
The best in new media, September 26, 2000
5 Stars
Reviewer from Philadelphia, PA
I saw the book in the library. Had to check it out immediately. Before I had finished the index and leafed through, I knew I had to have my own copy. I've been working on projects similar to those in the book and voilá! the answers to my questions! Thanks for a great book on wonderful projects, like Photos on baked clay and between glass. Iron-on transfers for all sorts of projects. I'm looking for the supplies now.
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