What You Should Know about Scrapbooking
For the coming New Year, you should already have made up a list of items you resolve to do. Near the top of your agenda for the coming year should be to devote some time to scrapbooking your happy memories.
Scrapbooking is good therapy for your emotions and intellect
The earliest scrapbookers had that in mind when they collected letters, sketches, flower petals, quotations and prayers in their scrapbooks. There were not many photographs in those days. Therefore, lacking in pictures, they had to portray everything in words. The old scrapbooks were really documented memoirs or diaries. If Anne Frank had written her famous diary in more conducive surroundings, she would have probably pasted newspaper clippings in them. Among many famous historical figures who were also scrapbooking are Thomas Jefferson and Mark Twain. In fact Mar Twain made a fortune on his only creation that ever earned anything for him. This was a scrap book on which people pasted his pre-fabricated stickers most of which were about the things he was interested in. He had more than 50 versions of this scrapbook circulating by the time they had made a small fortune for him. The best scrapbooking enthusiasts had deep spiritual reasons for doing so. There must indeed be definite benefits to be derived from this activity.
Acid-free paper and acid-free glue should be used in your scrapbook
Before beginning your first scrapbooking project, be aware of a few important things.
There will be very little use in your scrapbooking activities if you are not going to use materials that last or fade easily. Therefore you should see to it that the paper you include in your scrapbooks will be relatively free from corrosive and acidic content. Although most of the commercially available paper is acid-free it will still be a good idea to verify this from the store where you purchase your scrapbook. You can expect your scrapbook to last for hundreds of year if you use the best alkaline paper and cardboard. Besides having a long lifespan, acid free paper will not ruin, discolor or blur the photographs that you paste into your scrapbook.
Fresh flower petals and decorative foliage should be dried thoroughly before including them in the scrapbook. The moisture content of fresh vegetation will discolor, if not rot, the page. The water content can also be damaging to the paper. Even the glue that you use for your scrap book has to be alkaline. You can purchase acid-free glue in bottles or sticks in most book stores and even on the internet.
Place descriptive labels on the photographs and memorabilia
Your scrapbook will only be as meaningful to others as the descriptiveness of the labels you attach to your memorabilia. People who will be viewing your scrapbook will feel the impact of your own sentiments if you describe accurately the items that you paste in it. More than just tagging them with labels, you should take the time to ‘blog’ in your scrapbook about the items that you have included. In this way, your scrapbook will gain something from your own personality; will be the embodiment of your sensibility.
Don’t forget to add decorative and attractive embellishments to the scrapbooking album
Make sure your scrapbook will look good enough for people to want to read through its contents. Aesthetics plays a great role in the making of a good scrapbooking album.
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