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Preserving our memories is ever more popular. For many,
photography is the answer now that digital cameras have arrived and
you can do all sorts of clever things with them once you have
downloaded the photos to your pc. However, more and more people are
turning to scrap booking as a way of keeping those precious
memories. It’s creative, a lot of fun and the end results are really
satisfying. The photography can just be the start – the end results
can be so much more.
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don’t need any special expertise to get started; it's as simple as
cutting and glueing. Having said that, once you've mastered the
basics there are all sorts of special tools and items you can
purchase to make your pages more eye-catching or exciting. The
possibilities are limited only by your imagination! If you’re a
naturally imaginative person, producing a really attractive
scrapbook will appeal to your imagination. If not, there are all
sorts of things to help you out, such as colour co-ordinated papers
and embellishments - a real bonus for the new 'scrapper'.
The basic supplies are paper (use only acid-free, photo-safe
papers), adhesives, pens and albums. You will also need basic
tools such as scissors and rulers to which you can add, if you
wish, punches, stencils, cutters and so on.
But don’t think it’s just about sticking photos in albums. You
can add a story or a poem to pages so that you can re-create the
occasion to which the photos refer. So your creative side can be
satisfied by the photography itself, by arranging your pages
imaginatively and through the written word.
There’s a beginners’ guide at www.scrapbooking.about.com, which will give you the basics.
From then on, it’s up to you and your imagination.
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