Scrap booking is a very common hobby throughout the world, especially in North America. You can have lots of fun preserving your memories while scrapbooking. Scrapbooking is more than just pasting photos into an album in a meaningless way, it has become a skilled art.. There is plenty of scrapbooking supplies available, which mean you can scrapbook anyway you wish.

Album: for most scrapbooks the first thing you need is an album. You can get albums in multiple size such as 12″ x 12″, 8″ x 8″, 6″ x 6″ as well as 8.5″ x 11″. There are also many choices concerning design, i.e. leather, plastic, linen etc. The decision for choosing an album can be easily made depending upon the type of things you are pasting in the album. Make sure the pages of an album are acid-free and lignin-free so as to avoid acceleration of the photo-fading that occurs.

Scrapbook Paper: After carefully choosing the album, the next thing to do is choose the sort of paper you are going to use in the album. Card stock pages provide the best support for photographs. By using Vellum and soft-mulberry’s paper you can add some texture to your album.

Cutting Supplies: Since scrapbooking involves a lot of cutting it is best to make sure you have the right tools. 12″ rotary paper cutter is best tool to get as it suitable for several paper sizes such as 8×11 and 12×12. A pair of ultra fine scissors is also required. They help us cut small portions of paper with utter delicacy so that the other parts of the picture don’t get ruined.

Adhesives: You really can take your pick when it comes to selecing the adhesive you need for the job. But for a start, you will only need some basic ones. Double-sided tape is often useful for sticking clippings on the pages. For sticking transparent substances use wellum tape and use photo corner tape for sticking down pictures. A good general liquid adhesive is also great to keep on hand.

Pens: In scrapping, a lot of different kinds of pens and markers are used. You will need some acid-free pens (for journaling) so that the scrapbook paper doesn’t get ruined. Pens are also great for adding doodles and other descriptive writing on your pages.

This is the basic set of things that you need for a head-start in scrapbooking. I hope scrapbooking gives you the same amount of pleasure as it gives me.

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