How to Start a Scrapbook

It’s really important to start archiving all of the family history, arranging all of the family pictures, or just to keep up with the rest of the family scrapbookers, but you don’t have to do it all in your first scrapbooking project.  Begin with a simple project and choose a theme: a certain vacation, a single holiday, a child’s school career, a wedding.  There are many great scrapbooking ideas out there for you to try.

If you have taken several dozen photos please keep from using all of them, choose a few photos that tell the story you want to tell. Leave the rest of the photos in the shoebox for projects you do in the future.

Don't hurry the project and take all the time you require. Don’t make the story strictly chronological, don't use every single color under the sun, set out to design each page differently, or set any unnecessary goals.

What You Need to Start Your Scrapbook

Start scrapbooking with the bare necessities or with all the bells and whistles according to your personal style. The basics of course involve having an album, so pick one that will go with the idea that you have or let the store supply inspire you. While you’re in the store, pick up some refill pages to fit your album. You don’t want to run out in the middle of your scrapbooking project and discover that these exact pages are difficult to find. Get a good pair of scissors just for scrapbooking, and make sure they are comfortable in your hand and sharp, then keep them with your supplies.

Another thing to have on your shopping list is some adhesive. Find one in the scrapbooking aisle of the craft store. Make sure it’s acid-free and is good for both photos and cardstock, because you will want to choose cardstock and paper to accent your photos. Choose holiday colors for holiday scrapbooking and baby pastels for baby scrapbooking. And lastly, you will need a craft store that specializes in scrapbooking so you can find specialized papers that are available by the sheet.  There are just some of the scrapbooking for beginners tips.