Scrapbooking



Scrapbooking has become quite a sensation, not only in America but all across the world. This is brought partly by the prevalence of craft shows on TV and with cable channels, other parts of the globe especially the Asian regions have begun to acquire the habit too. Magazines on the subject have also begun to crop up, teaching various techniques and reaching a wider scope of readers.

One of the most important things that these shows and magazines have done is to make scrapbooking seem easy for ordinary people. Now, even if one has no artistic talent or any creative skill, one will still attempt to do scrapbooking because it all seems so easy to do.
Tools and accessories that are being sold in the market have also made scrapbooking easy and accessible to people. There is no need to cut and paste like what people do in the past. Now, tools and gadgets provide a short cut to every long process of designing and layouting. There are even computer programs devoted to the subject.

Craft stores have begun to offer various tools and accessories for scrapbooking. Every season, there seems to be a new tool or gadget that will make a scrapbooker’s life relatively easy. There are now engraving tools as well as embossing mediums. There are special glues that can help stick anything to any surface. There are specialized stickers that can be used in albums and scrapbook pages. Everything is already available for the scrapbooker.

With all these tools and accessories, it is no wonder that scrapbooking is an expensive hobby. Compared to other hobbies like sports, purchasing materials is a continuous process. In every scrapbook that you will be buying, you have to buy supplies and tools. Still, whether or not you will be shelling out much money will really depend on the person. Scrapbooking need not be an expensive activity if you know what to do and how to do it.

Below are just some ideas on how to achieve a page that is both beautiful to the eyes and to the pockets!

Cut from magazines and newspapers

After reading the newspaper or a magazine, don’t just throw it just yet. These reading materials contain great graphics that you can use for your page. The ads for instance in newspapers can be cut and pasted for the pages. The same goes with the pictures that are used for articles in magazines.

Buy your own magazines

If you don’t have stock newspapers and magazines in your house, you can actually buy a magazine and then cut graphics from there. This is more inexpensive than buying stickers or graphics in craft stores. As much as possible, buy the magazine that will contain the images that you are searching for. For instance, if you are putting together a scrapbook for a wedding, your best bet is to buy a magazine on weddings. The same goes with a baby shower or with a kiddie magazine.

Wrappers, greeting cards and stationeries

Newspapers and magazines are not the only items where you can get great graphics. Stationeries, letter envelopes and old greeting cards are also great sources of pictures that you can use for your scrapbook pages. Another source are wrappers. Make sure though that the wrapper that you will be buying have lots of different pictures on it. What is unfortunate about wrappers is the fact that the design is recurrent.






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