Scrapbooking Your Faith: Layouts That Celebrate Your Spiritual Beliefs

by Courtney Walsh

Celebrate your spiritual beliefs on your scrapbook pages Telling your story means more than scrapbooking the things you have done. It also means scrapbooking what you believe. In Scrapbooking Your Faith , you'll discover how you can document your beliefs, whatever they are, in your scrapbook pages. Inside you'll find inspiration for creating pages that record your prayers for your family, celebrate the people who encourage you, remember the blessings in your life, and much more. With Scrapbooking Your Faith , you'll find that scrapbooking the whole you, including your beliefs, is the best way to tell your story.

Genres: Crafts

128 pages, Paperback

First published April 13, 2007

About the author

Courtney Walsh is a novelist, theatre director, and playwright. She writes low spice romance and women's fiction while juggling the performing arts studio and youth theatre she owns and runs with her husband. Her debut, A Sweethaven Summer, hit the New York Times and USA Today e-book bestseller lists. She is also a Carol award winner and Christy award finalist.

A creative at heart, Courtney has also written two craft books and several full-length musicals. She lives in Illinois with her husband and three children and a sometimes naughty Bernedoodle named Luna.

Visit her online at www.courtneywalshwrites.com.

Reviews

[Janna Odenthal · Rating 5 out of 5]

I've never been able to commit myself to scrapbooking. It seemed like just another fun fad that would fade in time. This book gives a completely different perspective, however. It's far from being just another, "here's how to make a pretty page" book. Rather, it gives purpose to documenting your life for future generations - not just for them to see what you looked like or what you did, but the deeper meaning of who you are and why. It encourages you to document with photos the good and the bad, the fun and the sad. It lead to the scrapbook I'm currently making about my husband's brain cancer and all the feelings involved, which is helping me process my thoughts, remember and share the journey, and express my heart. Thank you!

[Anne · Rating 3 out of 5]

I like the idea of scrapbooking your faith and what that means to you.
This book has given me some good ideas of some things to think about and hopefully scrap someday.

[Natalie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Gave me lots of inspiration to scrapbook about my faith!

[Karishma · Rating 3 out of 5]

Picked this up on a whim for $2 at Ollie's - it was worth that price.

It's mostly eye-candy, with a big helping of encouragement to use scrapbooking pages as a way to testify about your faith. It's divided into various sections such as beliefs, inspirations, symbols and traditions, etc. with a page each suggesting why this is a good thing to scrapbook about.

The spreads themselves mostly seemed to be very similar, possibly because there were only 7 contributors. And they're all pretty and happy; there's not much edge to any of them. Not sure if this is because of the nature of religious scrapbooking or just because the book was sponsored by a manufacturer whose materials are all like that.

There's no explanations of techniques, although there is a list of materials used in the back, so you could duplicate a spread if you wanted to.

It's a good book to keep on a shelf for when you just want to look through some pretty spreads for inspiration, but it won't teach you anything new.

[christa · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really enjoyed this book. It was so unlike any other scrapbooking ideas, before Bible Journaling became popular, I think Courtney was the forerunner of creative faith. Seeing this on someone's list reminds me to pull it off the shelf and start working on some ideas I had bookmarked. It will be a keepsake long after we forget the details

[Sherri · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some of the layouts were too busy, the titles hard to read and the journaling small. But the concepts, subjects, questions, and ideas were great. Nice reference.