Scrapbooks are heartwarming, personalized gifts for every occasion.
Restoring all your memories within the pages of a scrapbook album is just one of the many reasons to begin a scrapbooking hobby. Getting creativity flowing again and bonding with other scrapbookers through hours of creative, artistic activities makes for a very enjoyable and fulfilling use of your time. When starting to scrapbook, make sure you keep it as simple as possible -- because you will soon see a range of choices and decisions to make that could seem overwhelming at first.
Instructions
1. Shop for all necessary scrapbooking supplies. Stick with the basics at first, and don't get too caught up in all the decorations before you first decide what theme you will choose for your scrapbook. Start with an album, paper, glue, scissors and pen.
2. Organize all of your photos. Sort them by what you want on each page and categorize them. You might want to use a few shoe boxes to temporarily store your photos as you put them in different categories, and put some of the boxes aside for other future scrapbook albums.
3. Choose the pictures for your first page of the scrapbook. Then choose a piece of scrapbooking paper that would look nice with the pictures you've chosen.
4. Lay out your pictures on the scrapbooking paper, and add borders for your pictures. You can save the decorations for later -- for now just set up a general layout for the photos.
5. Once you have them placed the way you like, glue on the pictures with photo-safe glue or adhesive.
6. Add your stickers, draw designs or add lettering around the page to customize it.
7. Add your first scrapbooking page to your scrapbook album.
