Your time is precious-- that's why you need ideas for beautiful scrapbook layouts that you can create in under an hour. Here are step-by-step instructions to inspire you, along with time-saving strategies and eye-catching layout designs.

Overflowing with tips, quizzes, projects, and inspired scrapbook spaces, this book will help you define your scrapbooking approach, and will guide you as you create a scrapbook space that works with way you work.

"The Winter Market in the French Quarter is in full swing, but murder isn't taking a holiday in the latest Scrapbooking Mystery from New York Times bestselling author Laura Childs. The holidays are a busy time for scrapbook shop owner Carmela Bertrand--but not so hectic that she doesn't have time to enjoy browsing the booths at the Winter Market with her best friend Ava. The last thing the ladies expect to see is a thrashing man stabbed by a serving...

"Creative Wanderlust gives readers the opportunity to explore and grow creatively through art journaling practices designed to overcome common creative obstacles"--

Laura Childs "returns to the Big Easy and the historic Garden District, where scrapbook shop owner Carmela Bertrand discovers a bride-to-be murdered in the legendary Lafayette Cemetery..."--

"The ladies of the Cumberland Scrapbook Crop are welcoming an eccentric newbie into their fold. A self-proclaimed witch, Cookie Crandall can whip up a sumptuous vegan meal and rhapsodize about runes and moon phases with equal aplomb. She becomes fast friends with her fellow scrapbookers, including freelance reporter Annie, with whom she shares shallow roots in a community of established family trees. So when Cookie becomes the prime suspect in a series...

Dumpster diving for her last paycheck is the low point of Kiki's day-- until she finds a severed leg thrown in with the trash. When she discovers that the leg belonged to Cindy, a customer with a violent husband, she begins combing through Cindy's scrapbook projects for hidden clues.

Police detective Chad Detweiler is overjoyed to learn he's having a baby with Kiki Lowenstein. But when his estranged wife, Brenda, is found shot to death with bullets from his revolver, the proud papa-to-be finds himself up the creek without a lawyer. Meanwhile, Kiki and Dodie Goldfader are in for a surprise when an unidentified young woman bursts into their craft store claiming to have killed Dodie's son. Embarking on a memorial scrapbook project...

When famed Irish dancer Emily McGlashen is found murdered in her studio just after the St. Patrick's Day parade, one of the Cumberland Creek Scrapbook Crop becomes a prime suspect.