Books & Blogs: Creative Ideas for Events & Holidays

Each Thursday I review a book or blog related to scrapbooking.

I enjoy the e-books from Ella publishing. They might not always be what I expect, but they are affordable, convenient, and I usually learn at least a little bit from each of their publications. Today I review:


I have been wanting to check out this e-book because I think there is a lot of value in scrapbooking events and holidays in addition to scrapbooking the everyday. This e-book contains 34 challenges applied to events and holidays. I would have preferred to see 3-4 suggestions for a selection of holidays and events (e.g., four ways to scrapbook Halloween). A scrapbooker could always use the different ideas for different holidays or events than the one presented, but I think 3-4 suggestions for each event would have made the e-book even better.

My favorite part of the e-book was that they had ideas for favorite outings. We spend a lot of time going to the park. My daughter loves it, we can bike there, and I can get some great photography practice in during these outings. So, I end up with a ton of park photos. Last year, I made a mini-book of all of our park photos. I’m not sure what I’ll do this year, but now I have a couple of more ideas.

This e-book is in many ways just an e-book of challenges that can be used beyond events and holidays. I would like to see an idea book that frames the challenges around specific holidays and events. (Perhaps this is something I’ll do).

***Reading Tip: I print out my e-books from Ella. I know they are optimized for tablet reading, but I do not have a tablet (yet). This time around I decided to print on front and back so it would take up less space and use less ink and paper. Big mistake. I had problems with my printer printing it correctly (pulling too many pages at a time screwing up the page order). The biggest issue, was it made it more difficult to read this e-book. I had to pull it out of my binder and keep flipping the pages around. Word of advice: just print it as is.

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Publishers and Authors
If you are a publisher or an author and would like me to review your scrapbooking-related book or blog, please email me at stephaniemedleyrath at gmail dot com.
Stephanie