Scrapbooking

Articles: What You Need to Get Started Scrapbooking

You have the photos and you have seen gorgeous scrapbooks that friends or relatives have made. You even have a budding desire to be a scrapbooker, but when you enter the scrapbook aisle at the craft store or walk into a scrapbook store, you feel lost and don't know where to begin. There are so many products available in the scrapbooking industry that it is easy to feel lost or overwhelmed.

With scrapbooking, not only are you creating artistic arrangements and layers of objects, but you are doing it around an evocative theme. Scrapbook art almost always includes: photos around which the theme is developed; and words or "journaling" which evoke, explain and expand on the theme.

The typical scrapper's description of a layout is simply the organization and design of your photos and supplies creatively displayed on actual scrapbook pages. Layouts consist of usually only one or two pages. Occasionally though some layout themes may require more. Those pages will combine the use of ...

This is a really neat technique that's used to raise an image up above the actual paper surface.

Most commonly you've probably seen this effect done on greeting cards and business cards.
Thermal embossing is the most commonly used technique.

What is "dry embossing" you ask?

Dry Embossing is the practice of creating a raised shape onto paper, adding dimension. This is usually done for the purpose of scrapbooking or card making.

I'm new to scrapbooking, and I still can't believe all the possibilities there are for scrapbook layouts. When I first began I pulled out and organized a lot of my daughter's childhood photos. Also collecting dust on my closet shelf was a box of other family ....

Do you hate throwing your Christmas cards away every year as much as I do? This year I decided to try to come up with some way to preserve our Christmas cards, as well as find a way to organize all the Christmas letters I've been faithfully filing away for the past six ...