Tips About Album Scrapbooking
Scrapbooking is definitely one of the most enjoyable, rewarding and relaxing activities a person can get into.
Aside from bringing out the creativity and resourcefulness in every person, it also helps people to organize
memories and keepsakes in one place.
Through the years, most people collect photos and mementos from their friends, family members, and loved ones.
In order to organize these, more and more people are getting into scrapbooking.
One of the most common themes used in scrapbooking is album scrapbooking. This kind of theme usually
involves the use of photos just like in conventional photo albums.
In creating album scrapbooks, the first consideration should be the album itself. In the market today,
there are two popular, standard sizes of albums - the 8.5"x11" and 12"x12".
If you are planning to create a family scrapbook, most scrappers will suggest that you use a 12"x12" album because
you will need larger space to accommodate all the photos and captions of your family members.
But if you are creating an album scrapbook for personal use or a scrapbook that you will give as a gift for a
loved one, you can use smaller albums such as the 5"x7" album because you can create a very specific theme.
Other specifications of scrapbook albums include the post-bound albums that come with black or white
cardstock pages and are covered by sheet protectors. The pages are bound into the album using three posts
that can be removed so you can add or remove pages.
This kind of album makes it easy for the scrapper to move pages around by pulling the cardstock out of
the sheet protector or by sliding in a page where patterned papers are used.
Strap-hinge albums, on the other hand, are those albums that have flexible plastic straps in the cover that
run through wire loops embedded in each page and are expandable, while the 3-ring binders or D-ring binders
are those albums that are bound using rings that allow you to add or switch
around pages quickly and easily. A 3-ring binder allows you to fit a lot of pages while a D-ring allows the
pages in your scrapbook to lie flat.
Aside from the album itself, other major considerations in album scrapbooking are the space or room and the
supplies you'll be needing such as stickers that come in various themes, designs, colors,
and sizes which are great but inexpensive and very fun and easy to use; tags that can be used as major
decorations; cut-outs and punch-outs which are usually tags, alphabet letters, and laser lace borders
that are used to decorate the page, paper embellishments which are usually perforated so you can use
them anywhere in the scrapbook.
Tools and products you may need include a punch to punch shapes out of paper that come in a
variety of colors and sizes; embellishments such as buttons, fibers or fancy yarns and threads,
metal accents, beads, craft wire and fabric ribbon roses that can safely be used on any scrapbook page;
chalk or decorative chalks that come in a set with various colors and applicators perfect for shading and
highlighting an album page; eyelets which are great for attaching vellum to paper, for decorating a
photo mat or for making a border and which also come in different sizes, colors and shapes.
Rubber stamps are also used. Very versatile, these stamps can be used for different purposes such as
in card making; die-cuts which are paper shapes in all sorts of colors and themes;
embossed paper charms; and templates which are ideal for unique embellishments that will make your album scrapbook memorable and unique.
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