500 Great Heartwarming Expressions: For Scrapbooking & Cards

This new Book # 4 in the Heartwarming Expressions series is jam-packed with a smorgasboard over 550 hand lettered expressions, oodles of graphics, frame designs and page lay-out ideas, in styles from cute and whimsical to old fashioned and stylish. This new title is 12 pages bigger than the other books in the series and it includes a four page color spread of color samples, with a helpful list of the supplies used. Including the color photographs on the back cover, you get 27 color samples of scrapbook pages and 8 samples of cards and tags created, using different expressions and graphics from the book.

The beginning of the book explains how the right expressions can create warmth, personality and convey a special message. Then you get tips and ideas for hand lettering, tracing, photocopying, clipart techniques, and different ways to utilize a computer with the book to create scrapbook pages, cards and keepsakes. The author notes; “the goal is to show people of all skill levels, several creative ways the expressions and designs can be used with different methods, papers and supplies”.

The expressions are divided into a large variety of themes, which like the other books, are alphabetically tabbed in the upper right corner for quick reference. Themes include Baby Love, Celebrations, Claws & Paws, Family Ties, Fine Friends, Girl & Guy Talk, Kids Zone, Love Notes, Memory Lane, Over the Hill, Scrapbook Fever, Seasonal, Silly Stuff, Sports Rule, Vacation Time, Wedding Bells and others. You will find everything from heartfelt sentiments, mushy love stuff, inspirational quotes, feel good to funny quips.

There are three pages of small frames and graphics perfect for gift tags or journaling. For card makers there are even four ready-to-copy cards, themed stamps and a convenient envelope template design.