Scrapbooking literally means decorating albums with clippings from books and magazines. Originally this technique was used to create exclusively photo albums.
Today scrapbooking album - this is a photo album, and a diary of records about events in one copy.
Album scrapbooking for beginners
In scrapbooking, there are several difficulties that a beginner has to face:
- Fastening the album page.
- Design of the album. The choice of jewelry, which will close the album and open it without damaging the design of the pages.
Scrapbooking album mount
The most convenient option - fastening on the rings. Such an attachment is perfect for beginners.
Less convenient, more difficult to implement the option - fastening with glue or firmware pages. Glue the pages so that they do not fall apart, difficult because of the very heavy paper used in scrapbooking. We have to resort to presses and additional firmware, which can be seen.
Scrapbooking album design
Volumetric elements are best used in the design of the cover. All elements of decorating internal pages must be fastened with high-quality glue or firmly stitched (if it is a question of dense and sliding fabrics).
Glued to the internal pages of the beads, most likely, will not last more than a few days, even if it is planted on the highest quality glue. It is better not to use feathers in scrapbooking: it is almost impossible to keep their original appearance, they are polluted with dust and quickly break down.
Styles in scrapbooking
In this technique, there are a few of the most common styles:
- vintage - artificial recreation of the past. Suitable new photos that you can grow old, lace, braid. Pages can be "aged" with tea or coffee, you can crumple, tear and set fire to the edges of paper to create the effect of aged pages;
- erytage (heritage) - a style that conveys the history of the family. It looks like vintage, but with one difference - artificially aged things and photographs can not be used. Only really old photos (or their copies) are used. The rest of the technique is very similar to the vintage style;
- American - a huge amount of jewelry, jeans, sequins, a combination of incongruous materials (leather and sequins, veil and coarse buckles from belts, etc.);
- European - a minimum of decorations, conciseness, consistency, perfectly chosen colors and modest, almost unremarkable decorations. The predominance of flat decorations over volume decorations;
- shebbie chic - a kind of antithesis to vintage. Old things are given a new sound. The main idea of shebbi chic is a cosiness created with the help of transformed ancient things.
For a family album, scrapbooking is a vintage style. For a wedding (including silver, gold) it is better to give an album in European style. American style will perfectly convey the mood of travelers.
How to make an album in the scrapbooking technique?
We will proceed step by step:
- The theme of the album is determined. The most popular ideas for an album are scrapbooking: a scrapbooking album for newborns or a honeymoon guide with photos of countries in which the newlyweds have visited, an album as a gift to a best friend or a gift for a joint life jubilee. The theme of the album defines the style of design and the materials used.
- The style of design is chosen.
- The main colors of the album design are determined. For the European style, gentle pastel shades are suitable, for shine-chic light pink and beige colors. American style implies a complete lack of restrictions on colors, and vintage and erythrazh suggest quiet and strict colors: from milky to dark brown.
- Choose photos and decorations.
- Pages are designed in such a way that each spread is sustained in one mood. It is desirable that the decorations on the pages of one reversal coincide. The reception looks interesting when the decoration from one page of the turn goes to the second page. For example, lace can go diagonally from the end of the first page of the turn to the middle of the second page of the turn.
- Finished pages are pierced with a punch and attached to a spiral or rings.