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jeffrey l hendershot
Reviewed in the United States on December 30, 2024
My girlfriend loved this book. Unique ideas for journaling.
S. DeMitry
Reviewed in the United States on November 17, 2024
This book is not what I thought it was going to be. There are 51 pages only. I apparently did not read the description well enough. The content is great, nothing against the author or publisher.
Chantal Marie Doriott
Reviewed in the United States on October 21, 2024
this is a great book with so many options - my 7 year old granddaughter loves it
Sheri L Reel
Reviewed in the United States on May 9, 2023
Not quite What I thought it would be. But it is still nice. More for kids I think.
Alycia wieler
Reviewed in Canada on July 8, 2020
Love this books definitely recommend it to anyone that wants to get into Art journaling or mixed media
lorraine cooper
Reviewed in Australia on September 24, 2019
Gave it to my grand daughters
Barb M.
Reviewed in the United States on September 21, 2018
This is not a huge or thick book. Read the specs on it in the description and you'll see exactly what size it is and how many pages it has. If you don't read specs before you buy something, then don't complain later and post poor ratings because you didn't know what you were buying! If you buy many art/craft books, you'd know just by the little Panda bear and Design Originals logo on the front cover what size of book you were getting. I own many of them. It's offered at different prices too depending on which seller you buy it from and whether it's new or used. Look just below the price on the one you pulled up on Amazon for other prices also right there on Amazon.I personally think it's a wonderful collection of ideas and inspiration! No, it mostly isn't step by step for beginners, though there are some instructions and materials shown--it's more for ideas and I found a good number of things I hadn't tried before. It's a beautiful, well-organized book with 127 numbered different ideas all illustrated in full color in the artist/author's work style. It's a treasure trove of eye candy for people who like to create this type of journal.I love it, I'm happy to get it for less than half the cover price and still in great condition, and I would recommend it to anyone interested in this subject!
A reader, a crafter, a gardener and cook
Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2018
This is for a beginner. The book is small in size and only has 50 pages in it. Two of the pages seem to hype Zentangles, a book advertised on the back cover. It is in full color. Another two pages are given over to completing a store bought owl book. No template is given for this so you'll have to buy the owl book if you want to do it.Each tip is given a number with a sentence or two underneath it. There are no real instructions, no templates, no steps, how to's, etc.The "tips" are mostly basics (tip #91-add fabric; tip #92-add buttons; etc.) that anyone crafting for any length of time knows already.Some tips don't even qualify as "tips" (tip #125-Embellish the Page... Yep, that's your tip.)Many tips are repeated (tips #83 & 127 are simply called "Bookmarks" while tip #25 is called Handy Bookmarks; tips #16 & 82 are Safety Pins).Other "tips" are nothing more than something she did on some page and not a tip at all (tip #121 Brown Page; #119 Lips...because she made a brown page or put lips on a page. No tip, just showing you something she did once. How is that a tip???).But the worse part is that I expected gorgeous photo's of art books like on the cover --but you don't get that either. After the first few pages, all the books/pages shown take on a cartoon-y appearance, the complete opposite of the one shown on the cover. In fact, tip #34 is Cartoons Collection (and the "tip" under it says "These are cartoons from my collection. I added bits of scrap paper to create frames." I ask again, how is that a tip???). Here's three examples from the book.If you remove the tips that are not tips, remove the ones that are repeated, and the ones that are her showing you something she did once, you end up with very little which is aimed at beginners.So I have no use for it, it was a waste of my money, I got no tips nor even any inspiration from it. So disappointing.
Elise
Reviewed in France on September 2, 2017
Si petit que rien ne justifie son prix... Les photos sont intéressantes mais tellement petites... Et chacune est accompagnée de trois lignes d'explications...
Maggie Morris
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 2, 2014
I love this little book. It is so colourful and full of ideas on how to use up all those little bits you felt you couldn't throw away. It really makes you glad you saved the more unusual things and even off cuts thrown into a envelope months ago suddenly come to life when mixed with an appropriate piece from the bottom of your pile of papers. A tiny book, but well worth having.
ACustomer
Reviewed in the United States on February 7, 2013
I hesitate to criticize, as I know the effort that writing a book entails - however, I bought this based on the reviews, and actually contacted Amazon to return it (the customer service is great, btw). Had I seen this at a bookstore, I would not have purchased it, as I have shelves of books and even magazines that are far more instructive, up to date with techniques and styles, and constant references/sources of instruction and inspiration that I return to again and again. Sadly, this book is not one of them, and did not show me anything new. It would be a good gift for an artistic child as a starter, perhaps.
Seeker :)
Reviewed in Canada on February 19, 2013
If you're not the kind of person who loves a house filled with screaming children or a pack of yippy dogs or the sound of 10 different radios at once...this may not be the best book for you. Stash and Smash has so many tiny little clips of ideas (not even fully rounded ideas) worked into it so erratically that I did not even enjoy leafing through it. There is no organization and the whole thing feels a little wild. There are definitely better books out there. Some of the ideas aren't practical, either (one idea she writes--it's counted as an idea, anyway--is that she liked a picture which reminded her of Marie Antoinette--I'm not sure how helpful that "idea" is).If however, you love to be hit in the face with 50 or so ideas at once, you might like it.
Yael Bolender
Reviewed in the United States on August 29, 2012
I must admit that when I received it, I was disappointed by the size of the book: small and not very thick, the photos are tiny as well, explanations = almost nothing.But once I started reading and looking at the ideas, it is actually a great book which would have needed more means and more space.I am not a big fan of the author's style, but whatever... It is her ideas and techniques which are interesting.I am a big fan of recycling and for me, this book is very interesting and deserves to be read and looked at (there is not much to read).Many ideas are really cool.That is why I recommend it anyway. I just would like a little more of this... Maybe a second bigger book about this subject? I hope so!
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