What is Scrapbooking?
Do you remember those days as a kid pasting newspaper clippings onto
paper and bundling dozens of papers together with some fancy ribbon or a
string? Do you also remember all of your hard work falling apart two
months later?
Now there's a grown up way to save and preserve your treasures:
Scrapbooking.
The concept behind scrapbooking hasn't changed since grade school. You
can still place photographs, newspaper clippings, poems, and tickets into
your scrapbook to display and preserve your memories.
However, scrapbooking techniques and tools have matured substantially
since you were a kid. Scrapbooking albums have replaced the messy bundles
of paper. These albums are generally bound or placed in a three-ring binder.
In this way, your hard work won't fall apart. Furthermore, new specialized
covers allow protection from the outside elements.
Paste is also a thing of the past. Specialized glue dots and two-sided tape
makes mounting your treasures simple and mess free. Many of these
products are so strong that you can now decorate your scrapbook pages with
ribbons, feathers, flowers, or even metal charms.
Due to these new techniques and tools, the uses of scrapbooking have
expanded drastically. Scrapbooking is still used to hold personal keepsakes
and for gift giving.
However, now scrapbooking techniques can be used to make baby
announcements, grandparent books, gift cards, artwork for kid's rooms,
recipe books, and even educational tools.