Scrapbooking & Layouts in Australia

What is Scrapbooking?

In a nutshell, scrapbooking is a preservation process of personal and family items and other memorabilia in the form of a scrapbook. Items that are usually included in scrapbooks are photographs, letters and artworks. Scrapbooks could not be considered as scrapbooks unless embellished with decorative materials like fancy fabrics, buttons, beads and colored papers.

Scrapbooking Must-Haves
Scrapbooking is more than just a past time or a process dedicated for memorabilia preservation, it is also art-making. In order to craft a good work of art, you should equip yourselves with necessary basic tools and some of them are as follow:

• Clear Ruler. This will let you measure your crafting materials precisely. This could also guide you put your decorations in one straight line.
• Fiskars Trimmer. Unlike common scissors or cutters, this tool could enable you to cut any craft materials in straight line and with ease.
• Double-Sided Adhesive Tape: As compared to all-purpose glue, a double-sided adhesive tape sticks materials together with a lesser mess.
• Pencil. This enables you to make guide marks and lines for drafting purposes.
• Scissors. This tool would help you cut out images and figures in different shapes.
• Colored and Specialty Papers. Having an enough supply of this will make your scrapbook's layout more colorful and one of a kind.
• Glue Gun. There are items that could not be posted permanently in a scrapbook using a common glue or tape, so glue gun should always be in easy reach.
• Adornments. This comes in different kinds such as stickers, action-figures, foams, buttons, etc.