Whats and Hows of Scrapbooking?

Those who love arts and crafts will certainly be interested in scrapbooking. Scrapbooking can be equated to painting. However, paintings restrict you to use a particular media for expressing ideas. Scrapbooking, on the other hand, lets you free to fill up and embellish your scrapbook in whatever way you want to, with whatever art and craft supplies you wish to use.


What is scrapbooking?
Everyone these days seem to be talking about or doing scrapbooking. Scrapbooking is not just a fun craft activity, it is a way to collect information, interesting facts and manifest them beautifully documented in an organized way. It can even be done just to cherish fond memories. It is to create a miniature world, all encompassed in a small book that captures memories, informations, facts, colors and what not! This miniature world prepared around a theme closed to your life fascinates you every time you look at it.


How to begin with scrapbooking?
If you are new to scrapbooking, start with a DIY scrapbooking kit. These kits are available easily at arts and crafts supplies store and include almost all the basic things required to start off with scrapbooking. However, they put a certain kind of limitation on your imagination and creativity. So,beware of this and from the very beginning, start incorporating you own ideas to express yourself and decorate the scrapbook your way by not limiting yourself to the choices of designs and patterns given in these hobby kits. Choose a theme around which you can make and decorate your scrapbook. A theme can be anything- special occasions, festivals, friends, family, your hobbies, educational interests or just anything under the sky and in your mind.


What are the basic scrapbooking projects?
1. Hobby Scrapbooks: - We all have one or the other hobby. You can pursue your hobby by scrapbooking about it. Suppose you are a music enthusiast then you can fill your scrapbook with music related informations, your favorite lyrics, musicians, memorable music concert tickets, pictures of your favorite singers, cut outs from newspapers and magazines to decorate your music scrapbook. You can even draw or paste musical notes and pictures of musical instruments to make your scrapbook more interesting.

2. Romantic Scrapbooks: - Express your love by making a romantic scrapbook and gifting it to your beloved. Let loose your imagination and decorate it with whatever reminds you of love - lyrics of the favorite song of your beloved, romantic memories, quotes, pictures, photographs etc. You can even include a letter in a beautiful envelope to express your love.

3. Birthday Scrapbooks: - Start your birthday scrapbook and see how it never comes to an end- you can add to it the cherished memories year after year. The first few birthdays can be based on the memories, photographs and narrations of your family and friends. Use your saved birthday candles, balloons, confetti, gift wrappers, greeting cards etc. to decorate your birthday scrapbook. It will be your eyes delight in the old age.

4. Wedding Scrapbook: - All the captured memories of your wedding are your priceless possessions. You can cherish them forever by making a wedding scrapbook. Add details about wedding proposal, courtship memories, post wedding parties, wedding cards, dried flowers of your wedding bouquet to keep the memories afresh for a life time. Renew your wedding scrapbook every year with wedding anniversaries memories.

These were only a few scrapbooking ideas. You can make a scrapbook on friendship including all your friends or just your best friend's memories, a vacation scrapbook, your baby's scrapbook, and on any other aspect that is important to your life.