Having a basic set of tools and supplies to unleash your scrapbooking imagination is essential. But to take it to the next level it’s very helpful to have a number of other inexpensive supplements. There’s nothing wrong with having a plain heritage scrapbook filled with photos that bring back wonderful memories. But if you want [...]

Keeping a scrapbook is a practice that goes back centuries in one form or another. But modern scrappers are luckier than their ancestors because they have so many creative tools at their disposal.
Look around and you’ll find scrapbook themes of every conceivable genre. Heritage scrapbooks, containing old family photos, letters, medals and other memorabilia are [...]

Scrapbooking is keeping a diary, but a very special kind of diary.
Men and women both have been storing their memories and experiences in written and visual form for thousands of years. Some cave paintings in France are over 40,000 years old. But diaries really took off in the 18th century. With cheaper, more plentiful and [...]

You’ll need a variety of tools to help you make your scrapbook everything you want it to be.
Basic scissors are a great starting point. But remember to get ones that fit your hand. Scissors come in all sizes and many shapes. Some people work best with ones with small finger holes, others need a larger [...]

Oh, what excitement a scrapbooker gets to enjoy when designing a scrapbook! Because, the choice of theme for a single volume or a whole set is unlimited. The opportunities for creativity are boundless.
There are as many scrapbooking themes as there are scrapbookers.
One common theme is perfectly understandable: the baby book. A baby book scrapbook [...]

Almost all scrapbooks are a combination of words and images. Images are terrific because they bring to mind so many associations. They trigger memories. But recording thoughts and feelings about those memories is what journaling is all about.
For some, that effort will be a simple recording of the events of the day or occasion: who [...]

For generations, scrapbooks were made of paper and plastic. And those still make for great media to record your memories. But since the invention of the personal computer and, even more so, the Internet, scrapbooking has reached new heights. Scrapbooking has gone digital.
Not so much a replacement for offline scrapbooking, digital scrapbooks expand the range [...]

One of the most exciting aspects of scrapbooking is the opportunity to exercise your own creativity. Nowhere is that greater than in the process of making your own patterns. Patterns can be created in and on paper, plastic, die-cuts, metal, ribbon and cloth….  In short, just about anything!
You might want a great border to dress [...]

Almost every scrapbook will contain a combination of text and drawings or photos. After all, the whole purpose of a scrapbook is to capture your experiences and memories for all time. One of the most common ways we do that is to record words and images. There is an infinite number of ways to do [...]

One of the great things about scrapbooking is how inexpensive it is to get started. All you need are a few basic supplies that don’t cost much. Unless you do all your scrapbooking digital style (on the computer), you’ll need something to store all your memories in. So, the first requirement is a good album.
You [...]