Quick Facts About Scrapbooking

• Scrapbooking is a popular hobby related to pasting clippings from newspapers and magazines, photos, program sheets, brochures, tickets, cloth, bookmarks, pressed flowers, drawings, ribbons and other memorabilia into handcrafted scrapbooks or albums.
  The earliest mention of scrapbooks was in the 16th century. By 1700, people pasted memorabilia into books, called common-place books.
• The word “scrapbook” came about when people pasted on blank books brightly colored “scrap”, a word used to describe newspaper articles, product labels and greeting cards.
• Some of the well-known scrapbookers were Queen Victoria, Presidents Thomas Jefferson and Rutherford B. Hayes, Mark Twain and Andy Warhol.
• Mark Twain was very much into scrapbooking. In fact he found a way to make scrapbooks self-pasting and then in 1872, he patented the self-pasting scrapbook idea and marketed it as “Mark Twain’s Patent Scrapbook”.
• The use of scrapbooking materials like acid-free papers, stickers and other tools, started in Utah in 1976 with the Christensen family of Spanish Fork, Utah, displaying their 50 family albums at the 1980 World Conference of Record. This led the family to open the first scrapbook store “Keeping Memories Alive”.
• Scrapbooking is easy and anyone can do it! All you really need is a pair of scissors, paper or a book, photographs or clippings, glue and a writing pen.
• Many other indispensable essentials include stencils, cut-outs, stickers, stencils, die-cutters, templates, photo corners, glue erasers, wire cutters, paper needles, pliers, double-sided tape, background papers, multi-colored pens and the list goes on.
• A personal scrapbook is just like a story book.
• You can create different scrapbooks under various themes like childhood, birthdays, graduations, weddings, anniversaries, recipes, baby showers, shoes and vacations.
• If original photos are used in your scrapbook, it is a good idea to use translucent interleaving, which will protect the photos over time.
• Scrapbookers can also use photocopies of their original photos, documents and other valued items so that the originals can be kept intact.
• Invisible vellum tapes adhere well to photos and barely show behind sheer papers.
• Avoid using magnetic pages whose glue can ruin photos over time.
• Digital scrapbooking is simply scrapbooking without the glue, scissors and all the other traditional scrapbooking stationery but uses the computer as a platform to design and arrange your scrapbook using digital images, layout and many other high resolution digital supplies. Scrapbookers have the option to print out their layouts to put into albums.

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