The Memory Quilt

Artistic cropping can improve a photo's focus, and a decorative element to a page or even make up for a poorly taken photo. It is one of the easiest and most enjoyable ways for scrapbookers to transform standard, everyday photos and album pages into unique works of art. Step-by-step instruction introduces a whole wealth of distinctive cropping techniques; Takes beginners beyond the initial fear of cropping photos; Shows creative uses for scrapbook cropping tools; Introduces photo slices, segments, rings, silhouettes, weaving and layering for special effects; Teaches how to crop for dynamic mosaics, stained glass, kaleidoscope and quilt photo collages; Artistic photo cropping can make the difference between a plain scrapbook page and a truly great scrapbook page because the photo art speaks for itself. Whichever techniques are used, the results are guaranteed to be a "shear" delight.