Going to try my hand at scrapbooking, can anyone help me?

[BoozyChristmacwoozy]

I've decided to start a new hobby and seeing I've taken literally thousands of photos of ds, making a scrapbook seems a good idea. But I could do with a bit of advice before I begin, although I have looked in the archives and thats already given me a few ideas. Firstly I thought I'd buy a book to give me abit of inspiration, and came across 'Total scrapbooking' and 'Scrapbook Tips and Techniques', has anyone already got these books, is it worth buying? Next I need an album, I read that WHSmiths are reasonable, can anyone recommend any other places? No doubt I'll need a fair few, so £20+ sounds a bit pricey. How about the scrapbook kits, are they worth the money? Can anyone recommend any good ones, the good sized ones are about £40, or is it better just to get bits and pieces whilst I go along. What do you reckon? OR maybe I should just go back to sticking matchsticks together

macwoozy
sorry can't help you much but there are two good and cheap books about scrapbooking on the Book People website
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Thank you both. That book club site has got some really cheap books, I only wish I knew about it before I went Xmas shopping, I was looking at Amazon which had books at least double the price on scrapbooking. UK scrappers will certainly give me plenty of ideas, you never know I might show up on the gallery one day, but then again...... My dp has come back home tonight with a mag 'scrapbook inspirations', I'm well impressed with it, might even have to take out a subscription. I only hope this is not another 5 minute wonder like the rest of my attempted hobbies.

i love that mag.

the uks site yorkiegirl showed you is fab!! check out the library there - loads of info.

go to scraporium.co.uk
not only does your order nearly always arrive the very next day, but you often get free chocolate with it!!! they ahve excellent ranges and stock. not a great fan of scrapbook kits myself, but maybe less dauting if your really new. the albums, which are always less online!, are re-fillable -you add more pages- so not that huge cost each time. brilliant magazine called simple scrapbooks (available from scraporium amongst other places) with dead easy and quick pages to copy or help you out. get some acidfree glue, -you can buy one alot like pritstick from scrap sites, easier than glue dots. sort your pictures in smaller groups so you are nto overwhelmed, such as one birthday, one trip, etc etc. look at your photos before shopping -you may find you want a zoo themed set of embellishments for example, or lots of rub down letters for titles........and good luck, its totally addictive but so worth it!

Thanks dramaqueen for your good advice. I've checked out scraporium and I can only say that my credit card will be getting a good hammering now, there's just so many goodies to buy. I've also just realised that ebay has its own cardmaking and scrapbook section with over 46,000 lots. Xmas will just have to be delayed in our household, I've just got too much to do

my fav scrap site

If you go to UKs you will find loads of links to the various sponsers....shop around to find the best deals and free P&P.

they have good offers here every week

nice stuff here and the forum is a great place to go for ideas and help

HTH.

Thanks Jayzmummy, I'm busy going through the Cotswold site as I write