Would You Like To Start The Exciting Hobby Of Scrapbooking

Scrapbooking your favorite memories is fast becoming one of the most interesting and popular hobbies that you can take up. With scrapbook supply now a multi-billion dollar industry, it’s hardly surprising that its popularity has even surpassed golf.

So, what is scrapbooking? Scrapbooking involves compiling photographs, magazine and newspaper articles and clippings, and other memorabilia into artistically decorated albums.

It’s tremendous growth rate has resulted in ‘scrapbookers’ getting together at each other’s homes, local scrapbook supply stores, scrapbooking conventions and even cruises. As well as being social events, these gatherings enable the sharing of tips and ideas.

Keeping pictures of events in life is one way to keep those memories alive. Happy moments and special occasions such as vacations, birthdays, graduations, weddings, and many other occasions are very often captured in photographs. Furthermore, such photos keep the memory of the event alive, and enable others a brief insight of the scene and to share some of the emotion surrounding them.

Other items that you could include are: love letters, cards, restaurant menus, concert tickets and programs and dried flowers. The list is endless. Anything that is a part of your past or present life is suitable.

So ask yourself, do you really want to let those wonderful memories to remain in plain and old-fashioned photo albums, or do you want to really spice them up? What about using the wonderful scrapbook supplies that that you can buy nowadays to house your precious photos and memorabilia.

Scrapbooking allows you to keep those memories alive by using poems, quotes, love songs, or simple statements expressing your feelings at the time, as captions for your photos and memorabilia. Your most intimate feelings will then live on forever in your artistic creations.

Before starting your scrapbook, assemble all the pictures that you want to include in your work. Next, sort them into date order. Before actually inserting the photos, set out all the materials including the captions that you are going to use, in the sequence they will appear in the scrapbook. Don’t forget to occasionally, add in artistic embellishments to personalize and decorate the pages. These embellishments could consist of stickers, trinkets, die cuts and fancy lettering. Do this all throughout the pages of the scrapbook.

When reliving the events surrounding your photos, you may perhaps recall some funny or memorable incident. Include these to make the caption more expressive and alive.

Colors also play a great role in your scrapbook. Softer colors such as cream and blue or silver and gold are mostly used. These colors make the pages of the scrapbook more attractive and lively.

By using the scrapbook supplies available, scrapbooking can become the outlet for all your artistic talents.

It is not necessary to be an expert photographer or artistic designer to create a scrapbook. You simply need to present your photos and memorabilia in a personal way that expresses your deepest feelings about them. By doing this, anyone looking through your scrapbook will be able to experience the emotions that you felt.

Don't let those treasured memories just fade away, make history and save them for future generations to enjoy - start scrapbooking today.