Scrapbooking

Scrapbooking allows treasuring much-loved moments of life. With the use of photographs, memorabilia, print media and other decorative things, one can easily garner these precious moments in a scrapbook or in an album. The concept evolved from the traditional way of preparing a story book, which is visually appealing and could reveal a story much gracefully. Gradually, there were different ideas and methods for scrapbooking, making it a much loved craft activity.

One of the most essential materials to create a scrapbook is an album. Most modern scrapbooks are materialised on 12" x 12" or 8-1/2" x 11" pages. However, mini scrapbooks are more popular because of their compact dimensions such as 6" x 6", 7" x 7" or maximum 8" x 8". Other supplies required to create a scrapbook include some printed papers or cardstock papers, photo corner mounts, scissors, art pens such as crayons, felt-tip pens and lastly, glue. To decorate the album, stickers, stamps, rub-ons, eyelets, brads ribbons, stencils, inking tools, etc may be used.

Digital scrapbooking is yet another method of creating scrapbooks with the help of digital media such as printer, scanner, desktop publishing, etc. Digital scrapbooking has a much professional look. Since it is printed, making it visually much neater.