Since paper is so important for the scrapbooking process, it’s natural that it would be important to shop smart for scrapbook paper. In this article, we’ll take a look at a few tips that will be the difference between being frustrated with your scrapbook and being truly satisfied, all with proper paper buying habits. There are some papers that can be truly disastrous to your scrapbooking endeavors. The first is to have a paper with [...] Read more »
In the wonderful world of the scrapbooking hobby, paper has got to be the most important raw material. Fortunately for scrapbookers, this is a relatively inexpensive material and is widely available. Just in case your local general craft store or specialty scrapbooking store doesn’t have a wide variety of papers, we would be remiss not to let you know about many of the different paper types that should be at your disposal as a scrapbooker, [...] Read more »
Tools! There are few things more important to scrapbooking success than having the right tools at your disposal. This includes when you’re dealing with photographs. Tools come in handy for three main actions you will employ with using photographs for scrapbooking. These are for cropping, tinting, and mounting. Let’s explore the tools necessary for these actions. For cropping photographs, the type of tools you will need will be various cutting tools. As is true with [...] Read more »
If you’ve ever seen a scrapbook without any sort of embellishments, even if you couldn’t put your finger on exactly what was wrong with it, you would have noticed that it fell a little flat. A scrapbook without embellishments is really just a binder or book that has scraps and paper. With embellishments, a scrapbook gets taken to a whole new level – an art form. Though an embellishment can mean so many things to [...] Read more »
Cutting tools are used by scrapbookers for all sorts of activities. Consequently, there are bunches of cutting tools that you’ll find you need, if you really want to be a well-rounded scrapbooker. From lowly scissors to knives to edgers, we’ll cut through all the details of what you’ll need so that your scrapbooking set can be complete. The cornerstone of your cutting tools has got to be a good pair of straight edged scissors. But [...] Read more »