THIS PAGE IS DESIGNED TO HELP OUT WITH SCRAPBOOKING TERMS FOR ALL LEVELS OF SCRAPBOOKERS!
Scrapbook Layout
A layout is completed scrapbook album pages or paper piecings! These pages can be one to a whole album. Your completed layouts are completely up to you how you choose to create them! Try differents ideas when making layouts. You can use the standard square pictures or try circles. You imagination is your limit! There are many idea books out on the market and on a lot of the kits you will come across will have ideas to inspire you! You can usually find ideas on the Scrapbook Companies website!
Paper Piecing Supplies
Paper Piecing Supplies are anything you use to create your layout! This can mean paper, stickers, brads, ribbons, frames, embellishments and tools!
Scrapbook Tote
A scrapbook tote is something you would use to store and carry your scrapbooking tools around easily in. These totes should have lots of compartments for tools, embellishments and adhesives.
Adhesive
Anything you can attach your pictures and embellishments to your scrapbook papers. There are many different types on the market and a few of the most commen are: Glue Stick, Tabs, and Tape Runners. Glue Sticks found anywhere and should be a good quality, Tabs are little double sided tape tabs found in a box and you pull them out as you need them, and Tape Runners (the easiest to use by far!) are a plastic container that contains a round of double sided tape. They are by far the easiest to use and when you purchase a good name brand one you don't have to push hard to make them work and they don't mark or make indents on your photos. Better to stick with name brands on the tape runners for sure! Make Sure all your Adhesives are marked Acid Free. This will ensure your pictures a long life without fadding.
Embellishments
An Embellishment is anything you add to your scrapbook projects that makes it stand out! An embellishment is put on your project to add character to your layouts. Most embellishments are self adhesive backing but others can easily be attached with your choosen adhesive.
Brads
Brads are little peg like embellishments most commenly made from coloured metal or painted metal. They are a 3D feature to add to any scrapbook project! Once you discover brads you will be sorry you ever scrapped without them! The brad is a certain shape with a backing that is two posts which split apart to hold them to your paper. There is your standard round brad that comes in many sizes. Then you have your standard shapped brads which can be squares, or stars whatever shape you choose. You also have Shapped brads and Decorated brads which come in almost any theme imaginable from pretty much every company! Shapped and Decorated brads are great for seasonal pages such as Christmas, Halloween, and Easter, or you can find brads for Weddings, Babies, and Animals. You name it and someone on the market probably makes it!
Tools
Tools that you might want to have on hand are a sharp craft knife and cutting mat, a paper piecer, paper distresser, gel pens, stamps, inks, and a really great pair of siccors. A sharp craft knife that looks like a scalpul works really good and just a cheap cutting mat works just as well as anything! Or if you have ugly couches and want to trick your mate into getting new ones use those! Ok maybe don't do that! A paper peicer is like a long needle, this pokes perfect holes in your paper to place those brads in. A paper Distresser is a tool that is hand held with a sharp little cutter in it so that you can go around the edges of your paper and wear the edges to give it a rugged look. Gel pens are great to write in what was happening in the pictures or even to colour accents on the paper itself. Stamps aren't necessary but add neat images to layouts or if you have journalling stamps it can create the perfect spot to write in. Inks you think just might be for your stamps but you can use them for inking the edges of your papers! This gives a really neat effect to scrapbooking. Siccors you will want a really good sharp pair that you can really make great cuts with.
Cardstock
Cardstock is heavier scrapbook paper that is most commenly in all colours of the rainbow. These papers are the perfect way to start your scrapbook layouts. By choosing scrapbook papers that you want to incorperate in your layouts and then choosing a colour that matches it as the backing to your scrapbook spread. Choosing your colours is completely personal taste. If you pick a hue that is already in the patterened scrapbook paper that you have choosen to work with then find a cardstock that matches it and you will be just fine. You can also work with a couple colours of cardstock and making layers to bring your other papers stand out. Hint attach your layers with round brads and it looks like a complete project!
Vellum
Vellum is a transparent type paper that comes in patterns to add to your scrapbook projects. Patterned Vellum can be cut up and added to cards to make great accents. It is easiest to attach vellum with brads so you don't see an adhesive mark on your project.
Die Cuts
Die Cuts are shapped and patterend embellishments that you can attach to your scrapbook layouts. Most companies make them to use with all their papers to keep your theme tied together. You have to use adhesive to attach these to your layouts.
Ribbons and Fibers
Ribbons come in all colours and textures. Fibers are just a textured ribbon. These items add demension and appeal to your scrapbooks and to your cards. Choosing ribbons and fibers are easy just use colours that match the paper you are using. They are also great to help attach little charms to your projects.
Albums
Albums come in a vast variety from colours to themes and shapes and sizes! Almost every company makes albums it is just going to depend on what you find appealing! You will most likely be working with a standard 12X12 scrapbook album or 8X8 scrapbook album. These are the most commen and very easy to work with. You want to make sure that if you are going to be making a bigger album with many many pictures that you find an album that is post bound and expandable. This way you can add more pages to it and not be limited to the standard amount. Albums are best when they have page protectors in them to protect your pictures from finger prints and other disasters waiting to happen. You can also get accordian style album which have hard patterend covers and when the closure is realeased pull out into many pages. These are most of the time in smaller sizes and are great to make smaller albums of just your favourite pictures. They make great purse albums. There are also matchbox albums that are shapped in a match book style (but a little bigger!) and they have the same idea of using your favourite pictures and are super for purse size. Then you can get into chipboards and bare essentials which are for making altered items. Chipboards are a hard plain cardboard just waiting to be created. Also the bare essentials come in any shapes from blocks to pails to albums. This give you a blank canvas to create anything your heart desires. These always make great gifts and everyone will be impressed!
Stickers
Stickers come in all shapes and sizes. They add character to your work and just complete a project. Pretty much every company makes them and you can never go wrong with stickers!
Rub Ons
Rub ons are so popular now and add such neat elements to your scrapbooking projects. Like stickers they are self adhesive. The come on a transparent sheet with many designs and you carefully lay them on your paper and take a rub on insturment and rub them onto the paper. Super easy to use. Pretty much every company also puts them out with every theme.
What do I need to start scrapbooking?
~ a pair of siccors
~ paper
~ adhesive of any kind
~ gel pen
~ your photos
~ imagination
All the other stuff are absolutely great perks but don't run out and buy a bunch of stuff you aren't going to use. Start small and work into stuff. The best way to start might be by buying a kit that has the paper, embellishments and alphabets all provided. After you have created an album then start adding in embellishments. I would never want you to buy something you aren't going to use. Always ask questions! If you aren't sure about something it never hurts to ask. I always love chatting and if I know the answer to something I will help in any way I can! Remember everyone starts at the begining!
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