| Scrapbooking is a very popular hobby throughout the | | | | texture to the scrapbook. |
| world, especially in North America. It is a wonderful | | | | Cutting Supplies: They are vital for scrapbooking |
| way to preserve memories as well as other | | | | because scrapbooking requires a lot of cutting work. |
| interesting embellishments, and the best part is that | | | | The best thing to use is a 12" rotary paper cutter |
| it's a lot of fun too. But scrapbooking nowadays is | | | | because it can be used with 8x11 or 12x12 sized |
| merely not just pasting photos on to the pages, but | | | | paper too. A pair of ultra fine scissors is also required. |
| preserving them in an interesting and entertaining | | | | They help us cut small portions of paper with utter |
| manner. The best thing about scrapbooking is that | | | | delicacy so that the other parts of the picture don't |
| there are a lot of supplies available in the market but | | | | get ruined. |
| you just need a few basic things for a good start. | | | | Adhesives: There are many different types of |
| Album: for most scrapbooks the first thing you need | | | | adhesives available in the market. But for a start, you |
| is an album. They are available in various sizes such as | | | | will only need some basic ones. Double-sided tape is |
| 12" x 12", 8" x 8", 6" x 6" and even 8.5" x 11". There | | | | often useful for sticking clippings on the pages. Photo |
| are also many choices concerning design, i.e. leather, | | | | corner tape is useful for sticking pictures and vellum |
| plastic, linen etc. The decision for choosing an album | | | | tape is useful for sticking transparent substances. A |
| can be easily made depending upon the type of | | | | good general liquid adhesive is also great to keep on |
| things you are pasting in the album. The pages of an | | | | hand. |
| album should however be acid-free and lignin-free | | | | Pens: In scrapbooking, a lot of different kinds of pens |
| because acid and lignin help in the acceleration of | | | | and markers are used. You will need some acid-free |
| photo-fading. | | | | pens (for journaling) so that the scrapbook paper |
| Paper: After carefully choosing the album, the next | | | | doesn't get ruined. Pens are also great for adding |
| thing to do is choose the sort of paper you are going | | | | doodles and other descriptive writing on your pages. |
| to use in the album. Card stock pages provide the | | | | This is the basic set of things that you need for a |
| best support for photographs. Vellum and | | | | head-start in scrapbooking. I hope scrapbooking gives |
| soft-mulberry's paper can also be used to add some | | | | you the same amount of pleasure as it gives me. |