Creative Scrapbooking Ideas To Preserve Your Family Photos - Start Scrapbooking Today...
Do you still remember the days when you were still a child and you used to cut up pieces of paper and stick them all together creating different patterns? Remember how you and your big brother would cut and paste newspaper clippings onto a cardboard and then ask your mother to tie up the papers together using some fancy string or ribbon?
How about those gloomy days when the whole work of art would crumble? Scrapbooking is a much advanced version of that little game and you can use it to store and organize all your family memories and photographs.
Scrapbook is a fun way to creative with your photographs
The idea behind scrapbooking has not changed at all since the time you were eight. You can use your scrapbook to store photographs, poems, newspaper clippings and tickets that remind you of a special time in your life. The techniques and skills involved in the craft have changed however - the messy books have been replaced with much neater and cleaner photo albums.
The scrapbooking albums are either held together by string or by a two or three-ring binder. This ensures that the piece of art will not fall apart. There have also been advancements in better and more specialized covers that protect your special memories and information from harmful outside elements.
Nowadays you find that most scrap bookers do not make use of paste anymore. You can buy specialized glue dots and two-sided tape from CNA, Pick'n Pay and Checkers Hyper for less that five Rands. This material helps you mount all your special life treasures without making to much of a mess. The glue dots are very strong and have made it possible to add more materials to your scrapbook such as ribbons, flowers, metal charms and feathers. These new and improved tools have made the exciting hobby accessible to everyone in South Africa and all over the world
Scrapbooking methods can be used to make wonderful gifts, wedding invitations, baby announcements, family websites, gift cards, recipe websites, and easy to use educational tools.
The best thing about scrapbooking is that anybody can be involve in it, you can ask kids and adults to put they effort to your scrapbooking.
How do I start scrapbooking?
Scrapbooking is one of those activities that do not require much for one to start and become successful at it. You can start even today if you have time by just looking for some material in your room that you can use. You can find old pieces of paper in you cardboard and small pieces of cloth from your old clothes. There are a lot of scrapbooking stores in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban that can supply you with affordable scrapbooking material in South Africa. You don't need too much to start your very first scrapbooking. Here is a list of the things that you will need - an album, some glue, a pair of scissors, some photographs, newspaper clippings, fabric such as ribbon, and bits of leftovers from other projects can be added to your scrapbooking.
As you get more and more used to scrapbooking, you will discover products that can help you save a lot of time and and unnecessary disappointment. These products do not cost much as well and you will find just how important they are as they will make it easy for you to create you scrapbook. You will need a small cutting knife and you can buy one from the local book stores such as Exclusive Books.
Try and buy a knife that has got a strong and versatile blade which will let you cut anything into the shape you want with ease. A dull blade will get broken easily and will not work at all. Ensure that you place the item you plan to cut onto a mat or a newspaper before you start cutting or else you will end up cutting right through your picture and into your scrapbooking page or worse still through your dining room table.
Scrapbooking is very easy and can be a fun way to share photographs with friends and family
You can't do without a pair of good tweezers. The scarp booking tweezers will assist you in picking up and placing small gluey pieces. The helpful tool will actually allow you to move tiny pieces of paper without touching them.
You can also get different glues and affixing options. These options include glue dots, two-sided tape, photo tabs with no acid, polypropylene corners.
Try and find albums that have acid free and lignin free pages. Both acid and lignin speed up photo fading and result in fast deterioration of your scrapbook.
Lignin is a found naturally plant cells and paper that has this chemical removed quickly becomes yellow and will subsequently crumble.
So where do you go from here?
Start scrapbooking. This website is going to help you organize your scrapbooking activities quickly. For your convenience and easy reference, each how-to is divided into easy to understand tips. As the name of this website suggests, there are a total of 101 tips. The first fifteen tips focus on the basics of how to do scrapbooking.
The remaining tips discuss various techniques and additions that you can use to make your scrapbook page even better. These tips gradually lead you from simple and easy beginner tips to more complex and advanced scrapbooking techniques.
Get Scrapbooking!