Scrapbooking Tools

For many craftsmen, nothing is more exciting than learning new kinds of needlework in practice. One of them is scrapbooking - a real art to create beautiful things with your own hands. To learn it, you need to have at least a few special tools at hand. Let's talk about them in more detail.

Tools required for scrapbooking

A simple pencil, ruler and scissors - these are the most necessary things for someone who dreams of mastering this kind of creativity. But in the future you will need other tools for scrapbooking:

1. The self-healing mat board is useful for many types of work, from simple cutting of paper to cutting out the most complicated decorative elements from cardboard, leather, etc. In pair with such a rug, you usually get a mock knife.
2. Figured scissors and punchers, a tool for rounding corners will enrich your arsenal. With their help you can give the original shape to the holes and edges of the blanks.
3. You can use stencils and masks for stamping, with which you can apply to the blanks of various images.
4. Stamping is a popular technique in scrapbooking. Rubber and silicone stamps are sold, they can have a wooden base or be on an acrylic block. The assortment of ink for stamping is also very wide: these are stamp pads or bottles with liquid, quick-drying inks of the types "give INC", "alcohol INC", long-drying "pigment INC", etc.
5. No less common embossing technique (embossing) involves the use of crimper, special hair dryer, powder, scallop sticks, etc.
6. Many scrap-elements are fixed using various adhesive materials. For this purpose, use double-sided adhesive tape, glue in a pencil or spray, glue pads, as well as a universal adhesive and a thermo gun.
7. In addition to glue, there are other ways of fixation. You can use a tool to install eyelets, which can be used not only in scrapbooking, but also in sewing. Also very nice on postcards and pages of albums are sewing lines - they can be done both manually and with the help of a sewing machine.
8. Sometimes to tools carry also a paper, though it is faster an account material. Scrapbooking uses tracing paper, cardstock, design paper or watercolor sheets. On sale you can find a set of tools for scrapbooking, designed for beginners - it also includes a thematic selection of paper with drawings and all sorts of decorative elements.