Designing With Texture

by Heidi Swapp

Discover how the creative application of innovative materials and techniques not only affects the texture of the page—but touches your heart and memory as well. Using fabrics, cardboard, metal, and even glass, you'll see how textures add richness and depth to scrapbook pages and paper crafting projects. Projects include photo cards, keepsake bags, and more.

Paperback

First published January 30, 2005

About the author

Heidi Swapp is known in the craft industry for her innovative style, trend setting product ideas and her recognizable, fanciful handwriting. Whether she is spray painting on her scrapbook pages or creating embellishments that are completely 'see-through' her boundary pushing concepts have always made her 'the one to watch.'
Heidi describes scrapbooking as a 'lifestyle' - it's something in the forefront of her mind as she lives each day looking for stories or snippets of history she wants to capture. Her passion is capturing the memories and 'sprinkling them with fabulous' in the form of glitter, color, ribbons, ruffles, flowers and bows!
As Heidi brings her signature style back to the craft industry she plans to encourage and inspire everyone to tell their story, create to remember, and along the way...make pretty stuff....everyday!

Reviews

[Kristen · Rating 4 out of 5]

One of the first more artistic scrapbooking books I purchased. While the techniques in the Designing with series are great, they are not well described and it is up to the 'reader' to figure it out on your own. The art work is wonderful and while published in 2002, most of the projects don't feel dated. That, for a scrapbooking book is a hard thing to accomplish.

[Robin · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was written by a good friend of mine and I love her creative ideas and examples. She certainly has a wonderful eye for scrapbooking.