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Scrapbooking - Instructions & Ideas for the first scrapbook

  • Scrapbooking - material
  • Make scrapbook
    • Scrapbook with rings
    • Tie with Washi Tape
    • Make a lock
  • Different layouts
  • design ideas

Scrapbooking is one of the most beautiful trends from the US, which also took the local areas by storm. An elaborately designed scrapbook may rightly be considered a sophisticated work of art. But even beginners can dive into the colorful world of scrapping at any time with simple beginner methods. We show you the first steps, two simple ways of binding your own books and numerous design tricks

Every scrapbook is a very personal project. There are hardly any rules, all design is up to your own imagination. Therefore, we limit ourselves to a very general guide and many great inspirations for your individual layout. Depending on your requirements, scrapbooking can use only a few basic materials or include a generous array of exciting aids. The resulting material costs depend on the extent of the design should be. Likewise, the time can be between a few hours and several days or even weeks. For beginners, it is advisable to start smaller and gradually put together a hodgepodge of utensils with more experience in scrapbooking. Even in the difficulty level, there are hardly any limits. However, anyone can get started and achieve great results right from the start!

Scrapbooking - material

Scrapbooking is primarily about creating creatively designed photo albums. The individual pages receive elaborate decorations. In the midst of multi-faceted decorative elements, the photographs are staged and other memorabilia made of paper effectively stored. This includes, for example, tickets, greeting cards, labels and everything we like to keep in order to remember beautiful moments. There are also small texts and headlines. Taken together, each scrapbook tells its own story.

Because of this construction, scrapbooking is perfect for capturing the highlights of life imperishably. The following events can provide a great theme for your first scrapbook:

  • to travel
  • Birthdays (as a gift for the birthday child)
  • Births, weddings and similar festivities
  • Annual reviews
  • Emotional connections like friendship, love, family
  • Pets
  • Document the growing up of a child
Tools & Toolsmaterials
  • Different scissors, additionally optimal: cutter, cutting machine
  • compasses
  • pencil
  • Pens such as fineliner, eddings, crayons or acrylic paints
  • tweezers
  • ruler
  • Punch / Punch
  • All-purpose adhesive, double-sided adhesive tape or photo glue sticks
  • Falzbein or similar
  • paper
  • photos
  • structure scissors
  • punch
  • stamp
  • bands
  • Washi tape
  • rhinestones
  • Sticker
  • Sprühglitter
  • adhesive borders
  • Distress Ink + sponge

To the required paper:

  • Base paper 135 g / m² (thick enough to give stability to the base pages)
  • Paper blocks with different patterns and structures suitable for all imaginable occasions (craft supplies or online)
  • if necessary, gray cardboard for cover

Make scrapbook

First, make the decision as to what kind of scrapbook should be your first work. You have the opportunity to create the book completely page by page and to bind it yourself. What sounds like immense effort, is in advanced versions, such a. Fortunately, there are also two great methods for beginners, which we will take a closer look at.

Anyone who is more excited about the creative decorating of the individual book pages, but Scrapbooking can also operate with a ready-bought blank photo book. In this case, you design your own personal layouts for the design of each page and can beautify the entire album also in various ways. For this you skip the binding methods and continue reading directly on the topic Layouts.

Scrapbook with rings

The variant with ring binding leaves a lot of space between the individual pages, so that more voluminous elements could be glued in as desired. This does not guarantee the option with pretty ribbons, it summarizes the pages quite tightly together. She looks very romantic for that.

  • Additional material: hinged book binding rings (craft shop or online for a few euros)

Step 1: First determine how big your scrapbook should be. All sizes are possible. This format has the size of 15 cm x 30 cm

Step 2: Cut these base pages in half lengthwise. The folded book then has a final format of 15 cm x 15 cm.

Step 3: Decide how many you want to bring in and if you want to add additional individual sample pages or bags (see Design ideas section).

Step 4: At the closed folding edge of the base sides, measure evenly two or three points for the perforation. The distance should be exactly the same on all sides.

Step 5: Now punch out the pre-marked areas with your punch or puncher.

Step 6: Lay all pages in the desired arrangement on top of each other. At the top and bottom of the book covers are used, which protect the s and give stability to your work.

Robust book covers for this binding method are made of gray cardboard. These measure you to the same level as your pages. Optionally, the lids can also be a bit bigger, depending on your taste. Then you stick them nicely inside and outside with sample paper.

Step 7: Assemble everything by inserting bookbinding rings into the punched holes or - with a rather thin scrapbook - threading a gift ribbon and closing it all by knot and loop.

Tie with Washi Tape

Alternatively, it is possible to easily and tastefully paste your pages into a self-designed outer cover with simple Washi Tape. The advantage is clearly in the low cost of materials. With bare tape and beautiful paper can already create a very effective scrapbook.

Step 1: For a Scrapbook in A5 format (from halved A4 pages), you first prepare the number of pages you want and put them together, as they will appear later in the finished album. Measure the height of this stack.

Step 2: Your outer binding is made of gray cardboard. This time, however, measure them as follows: height 21 cm + stack height + 0.5 cm additional + 2 x 15cm

Tip: The dimensions are the height of your A5 pages, the spine height (stack height), a small addition for the splices or thicker elements and twice the width of your Din A5 pages.

Step 3: Fold the so-sized and cut out cover to the left and right, while leaving out the stack height plus the additional part in the middle. This means that you measure each of the 15 cm on the horizontal paper from the left outside and right outside and fold your gray cardboard into the typical book shape.

4th step: Now you stick your cover, the spine and the back cover with pattern paper first from the outside.

Step 5: The areas that are later inside are not until the exterior is completely covered, resulting in a cleaner result.

Step 6: Now you can cover all folded edges with Washi Tape. This looks pretty and stabilizes additionally.

Step 7: Connect your individual pages into a whole by picking up a first double page, covering the closed outer edge from top to bottom with Washi Tape, which sticks exactly half to the paper, but the other half is still free remains.

Step 8: Carefully place another side on the free glue edge.

Step 9: Place the back edge of another side on the back edge of the last attached side and evenly cover both edges with a strip of Washi Tape. So continue until all sides are glued together.

Step 10: In the same way, also insert the pages into the cover: Cover the page stack with the cover, unfold its cover and connect its front edge to the back edge of the first side.

Step 11: Do the same with the last page and the back edge of the cover.

Make a lock

The closure of the Scrapbook you can easily tinker with a button, a rubber band and hot glue.

Knot the ends of the rubber at the end to form a ring. Stick the knot with hot glue on the back of the book. So that you can not see this anymore, then cover the knot with a piece of sample paper. On the front, the button is glued on with the appropriate distance. Finished!

Different layouts

Of course, the heart of scrapbooking is undoubtedly the design of each page. You can do this either completely planned or gradually let go of your inspiration.

Those who prefer to create a kind of floor plan in a notebook or on a large sheet of paper. In these you always paint the adjacent double page and capture your ideas figuratively. They mark the outlines of where later photos should be and in what direction, they complement your decoration or special elements. With such a sketch, you can keep track - for example, whether multiple pages are well matched, whether you can accommodate all the existing photos, etc. In addition, your backbone serves as a reminder if you are working on your scrapbook for a long time or you may want to do this later later.

Once the basic layout has been designed, decorate the pages with design paper and any other design ideas before you finish adding your photos. That's the usual procedure. However, there is nothing wrong with creating one page at a time completely. This method is especially recommended for intuitive scrapbooking without much planning.

There are an infinite number of possible layouts, which consist of photos, other memorabilia, possibly small bags and similar tags (see design ideas), text blocks, headings, frames and pure decorative elements. The layout for your scrapbook you can put together freely or be inspired online with creative templates.

Square format

Click here: Download Scrapbooking Layouts Square

Rectangular format

Click here: Download Scrapbooking Layouts Rectangular

design ideas

The following overview offers a small introduction to the endless design possibilities of scrapbooking. Which and how many of the torn designs you use is up to your taste.

1. Set sample paper on base paper

Anyone who places thematically matching sections of sample paper on the base paper achieves an intense effect without much effort, giving the layout immediate dimension and depth. In craft supplies, there are a variety of papers for all kinds of occasions and with different surface structures.

2. Work with stamps

Some well-placed stamps in the layout look great and are extremely popular in scrapbooking. The selection ranges from ornaments to the letters of the alphabet to typical symbols such as Christmas trees or postmarks.

3. Insert structure shears

Structured edges offer a captivating effect, especially for occasionally placed sections made of pattern paper. For this purpose, there are different structural scissors available in the craft supplies, which cut instead of a straight line in spikes, waves or other structures.

4. Distress technique for vintage look

For many themes, a light touch of vintage creates a particularly professional effect in your scrapbook. To do this, carefully wipe so-called distress ink over the outer edges of your book page with a sponge. As a result, they appear brighter or darker, depending on which ink you choose.

5. punching out

Small punches are not expensive and offer the opportunity to punch out pre-made motifs from your papers and paste them into the scrapbook. For example, you could punch out different flower shapes and give your layout a spring-like look. Alternatively, it can also be punched directly into the book page and work with the contour.

6. Scattering elements and stickers

Small decorative elements for scrapbooking are, for example, rhinestones, half pearls, scattered flowers or any other small flat materials that you like and that are in keeping with the theme of the book. You can also use stickers with the appropriate motifs for the design.

7. Add borders

Self-adhesive borders create a wonderfully romantic effect in every scrapbook. If you do not have one, you can use the tip of the cake and stick it on or paint it with a decorative pen. But also gift ribbons make gorgeous borders if you stick them along one edge into your layout or over the cover.

8. Glue in loops

With ribbons you can do a lot. Tie them into nice loops and attach them diagonally to one side edge. The binding rings are also easy to upgrade with a few loops.

9. Create interactive pages

So-called interactive pages already belong to the somewhat advanced scrapbooking. This design method is ideal, if especially many pictures should find space. It is about inserting small pockets into the layout. Beginners can easily use color matching mini-envelopes. Otherwise, bags and envelopes can also be easily folded [insert the Talu link] and then fixed using Washi tape, double-sided adhesive tape or all-purpose adhesive. In these bags can be photos or other items.

Foldable pages are also part of the interactive layouts. For a simple folding mechanism, simply fold a long strip of sturdy paper like an accordion together to create a square or rectangle that's large enough to have more photos attached to it. These fan out to the viewer then wonderfully imaginative.

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