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 Awesome reference and idea magazine May 28, 2003
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
This is my favorite magazine and I have looked at several different ones. It has great ideas and really has improved over the last year or so. They have great tips and ideas for beginners to the more experienced. I really like the new pull out sections they added and the new computer corner ideas. You will not be disappointed with this one!! They are they kind of magazine you keep for ideas and inspiration for years to come. Enjoy -- I do!!
Truly enjoy this magazine February 21, 2005
Elizabeth S. (High Point, NC USA)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
I have been scrapbooking for more than five years, and I my style is rather simple. However, I recently found myself in a rut, and I began wishing I could do the fancier pages, so I began receiving Creating Keepsakes.
Although I still have no desire to do a two page spread that takes 5+ hours, this magazine has been great at inspiring me to try new things, as well as just giving me ideas for both scrapbooking and stamping, in just the first three issues of my subscription. They do a fairly good job of showing the expensive way to do a page, as well as the more economical. Additionally, there are product reviews and recommendations. I typically buy most of my supplies from at-home parties, I found a very helpful recommendation for a silent eyelet setter.
Some of their articles are geared towards the more advanced/ambitious scrapbooker. For instance, a recent article explained how to use certain computer programs to augment photos. The results were beautiful, but this was just not up my alley.
They also recently did a spread on the scrapooking rooms of some of their staff, and I was very, very jealous!
I may never have any award-winning spreads, and I probably will never use my computer to augment my pictures, but I know my scrapbooking will be more creative and better looking due to this magazine.
A Must for Scrapbookers! October 23, 2002
T. Grissett (KEYSTONE HEIGHTS, Florida United States)
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
Excellent magazine. Content is always up to date, and informative. They throw in just enough advertising to make you happy. An all around perfect magazine!
 Okay but very light on information May 26, 2007
I. E. Henry (Roswell, GA USA)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Although,Creating Keepsakes is the first monthly and most popular scrapbooking magazine. It focuses too heavily on promoting their scrapbooking personalities, websites, idea books, and other commercial interests than giving actual "how to" tips. All the while,saving the information you really want for their special issued $14.99 magazines. Most of the tips, advice, or actual information dispensed in their main magazine, is general stuff you can find around the internet for free. CK is purely a "look book" idea magazine.
Don't get me wrong. CK is not a bad magazine. You see very pretty layouts, read cute stories from CK stars (such as Scrapbookers of the Year/Hall of Famers), and see the newest scrap products but you just really don't learn anything. Its like signing up for a refresher painting course to improve your painting techinques. But when you get there, all the instructor does is have the class constantly tour museums. If you really wanted to paint, you'll end of being dissapointed.
I'd only suggest a CK subscription for those who either admire CK scrapbook personalities, seek to have a career in scrapbooking, or want to keep up with the Joneses of the Scrapbooking industry. If you're none of the above, pick up CK on occasions when you need a really cheap idea book.
We love the creativity this magazine brings to us June 28, 2004
Anonymous
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This magazine is great. My daughter and I are doing projects together out of it every issue. It's great also because it is training us to be creative on our own, and to try new things. We also do these singing lesson Cds together- "Voice Lessons To Go" by Vaccarino- really fun, and have been doing Berlitz beginning Spanish Cds together. We love choices beyond sitting and watching TV!
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