Artist Trading Card Workshop: Create, Collect, Swap by Bernie Berlin is a book with endless fun.  From front cover to back cover, the pages are filled with projects and photos to keep a papercrafter busy for days!

Artist Trading Cards (ATCs) are tiny works of art measuring 2.5" x 3.5" that are created then traded with other artists.  I learned so many different techniques when going through the projects in this book and ended up with quite the collection of ATCs!

• Artist Trading Card Workshop: Create, Collect, Swap

Encyclopedia of Scrapbooking from Creating Keepsakes is a comprehensive how-to for all things scrapbooking.  It covers all the basics from layout to embellishment techniques.  It also goes into taking good photos and using the computer to enhance your scrapbooks.

I particularly enjoyed all the photos demonstrating the techniques outlined.  I highly recommend Encyclopedia of Scrapbooking for new scrapbookers.

• Encyclopedia of Scrapbooking (Leisure Arts #15941) (Creating Keepsakes)