Lifelines: Creating Memory Art to Chronicle Your Personal Connections

by Carol Wingert, Tena Sprenger

Lifelines is full of ideas for memory art projects that honor family, friends, life and your personal journey. From framed mixed-media collages, to sophisticated scrapbook pages, to decorative memory boxes, to commemorative books, projects are featured in three sections - Here and Now, Express Yourself and Forever Remembered - that focus on lifeline connections past and present. And the possibilities are You can easily customize each project's innovative step-by-step techniques for meaningful masterpieces of your own!

Genres: Art, Crafts, Nonfiction

128 pages, Paperback

First published March 16, 2007

Reviews

[liberal sprinkles · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked the book for the variety of techniques and range of projects included. Better yet, most of them are pretty easy to recreate. The instructions are simple to follow although they sometimes touch on only one part of the projects. For instance, the tutorial for the melted wax technique for the My Babushka box covers only a framed photograph; the inside pages of the How We Became Dog People and Some of the Girls In My Family journals are described in words but it would have been nice to see some photos of them.

Still, there are many ideas in this book for creating mini books, scrapbook pages, gifts and memory boxes for the important connections in your life. The layouts and projects provide lots of inspiration for art in general, and the techniques - including various ways of transferring image, photo tinting, creating textured backgrounds, stamping on metal, etc - can be applied to all sorts of other creative projects.

[Kristen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Just got this at CHA winter (an autographed copy!) and I have been devouring it and can't wait to get back to my craft table to play with some of the ideas.

[Shirley · Rating 5 out of 5]

another great one!