How To Scrapbook

How To Scrapbook Part 2

Learning how to make a scrapbook can allow you to give a very special, very personal gift to a friend or family member.

Scrapbooking has become increasingly popular in the last decade and is a way of recording and preserving keepsakes and photos that can be enjoyed for generations to come. It can be defined as preserving memories by arranging photos, journaling and embellishing in a creative layout. It's then put in an album for the family and loved ones' enjoyment.

Journaling is a very important aspect of creating your scrapbook. It may be very clear in your mind, when you make the scrapbook, the what, why, when, who and where of what it is you are placing in the album. Give it a little time and those details will inevitably fade. You need to record all those important facts. Write it as from the point of view of someone who knows nothing about the subject.

Scrapbooking can seem overwhelming due to the vast number of choices available. It's a method for preserving personal and family history in the form of photographs, printed media and memorabilia contained in decorated albums or scrapbooks. Scrapbooking Scrapbook Kithas been around for ages but recently people have taken more of an interest in it and there are many new and fun tools to use.

It can be fun and easy, so get yourself started and enjoy! You can create scrapbook albums for all kinds of events such as a wedding or a birthday, vacation and so on. It's the perfect way to record poems written by family members, children's pictures, writings, press cuttings virtually anything you can think of which is significant to you and yours.

Whether you have an entire room to devote to your scrapbooking or you're working off the kitchen table, before you begin working make sure to take the time to get yourself organized. Remember how you used to do scrapbooking as a kid where you simply pasted photos on colored papers, stuck on your mementos and scribbled some wording on it? In recent years, scrapbooking has evolved so much that there's a whole industry catering to scrapbookers.

As with most occupations and pastimes scrapbooking has developed it's own jargon surrounding the scrapbooking how to. Here are some of the most common terms to get you familiar with the scrapbooking fraternity.

  • 'Scrapping and scrappin' are both terms used to refer to scrapbooking. DigiScrappin is a term used to refer to Digital Scrapbooking.
  • Faithbooking as the suggests is the art of documenting events, prayers, memories, and feelings relating to your faith.
  • Cropping is gathering together to scrapbook at a home, scrapbook store, or convention. Such an event is called a crop. A person brings their own materials to create pages while socializing with other scrapbookers. An equivalent to a modern day "quilting bee".
  • Acid free materials have a pH balance of 7.0 or higher. Many papers are considered acid free immediately after manufacture, unless they have been buffered, that is, processed with a neutralizing agent, exposure to substances such as size or bleach will cause the paper to become acidic in time. All plastic by its characteristics is acid free, but some plastic can be detrimental for use in photo albums."
  • Lignin free paper contains no lignin, an acid found in wood that slowly disintegrates. Thus, using lignin-containing paper is not advisable for scrapbooking.
  • Buffered paper contains alkaline materials into the paper-making process, in order to offset or cancel out the effects of acids.
  • Matting is putting a border around your pictures. Simply lay your photograph on a piece of cardstock and trim around the photo. The size of the trim can be any size. Matting is an easy and efficient way to frame a photo.
  • Memorabilia refers to bits and pieces that aid in recreating the memories. For instance programmes, postcards, invitations, ticket stubs, pamphlets, awards, etc.
  • Embellishments refer to objects that are used in decorating the layout. Embellishments can include items such as stickers, fibre, eyelets, ribbon, charms, small metal frames, artificial flowers, etc.
  • Scrapbooking Stickers just like the stickers you buy for your children but in scrapbook related themes.
  • Rub-ons are similar to stickers, but have the advantage of having an almost clear background, which eliminates the characteristic sticker outline. Rub-ons are commonly applied using a blunt round implement like the end of dining knife or fork. Purpose made rubbing implements can be bought along with the rub-ons.
  • Vellum is a type of paper frequently employed in scrapbooks. It is a type of translucent paper that is frequently used as protection over pictures, or particularly relevant quotations.
  • Paper punches, available in a variety of shapes, are used for decorating and shaping paper. With them you can round corners, create confetti, and can make small, noteworthy additions to any scrapbook page.
  • Self-mount album, is a widely used alternative name for scapbook.
  • Design Teams a quick look around the internet for scrapbooking sites, forums and on-line businesses will reveal a plethora of small design groups called design teams.

There are tons of acid-free papers, adhesives, embellishments and numerous scrapbooking supplies for you to choose from. Each creative layout you make is called a scrapbooking layout. A scrapbook is simply a collection of scrapbooking layouts or pages put together in an album. After completing each layout, just slot them into your album for protection and display. As you do more scrapbooking, you can make your project as simple or as elaborate as you want.

After you've created a layout arrangement that you're happy with, it's time to assemble your page. Do you prefer to create one page or two page layouts? You might like designing, I certainly do but often you’ve got to ask yourself if it’s worth the time to create your own with such a wealth of supplies available.

Transfers are a great way to add some detail to your pages and you can even create your own rub-ons and use them over and over again. If you like clean and simple scrapbooking, cardstocks are all you need to create very nice-looking pages. The next item you'll need to create your scrapbook is scrapbook paper. Again there are a multitude of different sizes and colors to choose from.

Wouldn't it be nice if our grandparents had known how to make a scrapbook. I hope that these simple tips on how to make a scrapbook will start you off scrapping right away.

 


 

 
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