Paper Arts Bulletin

As announced on her blog , Traci Bautista's new book, Doodles Unleashed , is available for pre-order at Amazon.com. The Cloth Paper Scissors Book by Barbara Delaney is also available for pre-order .

One craft that you won't read much about here is scrapbooking. While I have made a couple of scrapbooks in the past, and I do own more designer papers than a non-scrapper should, I am primarily a stamper who makes greeting cards and artist trading cards. I do not like the cutesy scrapbooking sensibility that has taken hold at the stamping magazines. Nor do I like cards that look more like scrapbooking pages and assemblages than cards. I deleted a rather long rant against the cute trend that has crossed from scrapbooking into stamping and cardmaking. While I was never the sort of person who felt that scrapbooking and stamping should stay distinct and separate crafts, I have to admit to harboring negative emotions about scrapbooking. One welcome change, which could almost make me like scrapbooking, is that the artiness of stamping and art journaling has made inroads into the scrapping world. Scrapbooking isn't quite so cute anymore. Julie Fei-Fan Balzer is a prolific art journ...