Scrapbooking

[kkgirl]

Does anybody here do this?
I have been buying a few craft magazines, am tempted by card making or similar.
Scrapbooking looks good but am wondering how difficult it is?

do you mean with your child or yourself?

Ellaroo

By myself I think. I used to do some crafts, needlework, lacemaking, cross stitch pre kids, and just fancy something easy to try.

Oh, sorry then I know nothing about adult scrapbooking (was about to give you lots of fun ideas for child's one!!!), but would love to know what it is if you find out. Here's an idea for you that I have been doing anyway. In the Mini Boden catalogue there are t-shirts with a cat, heart and flower on it made entirely from sequins, I have just finished recreating the cat for a friend's child and it was lots of fun! Get the sequins that aren't pre-stitched and sew them on individually for extra fun and fiddliness!!!!

It is probably similar to childrens. Basically, it looks like you start by using a photo of say a holiday you had and build around it with colourful, stripy or designed paper and then add words and embellishments. It looks good.

Oh, that does sound good, sort of like creating a mood board like interior designers do.

It sounds good, I am tempted, but I am not very artistic, in the drawing sense, so not sure if I would be any good.

Watch this space.

Do you do any crafts, Ellaroo

Not sure if it's any use to you or would even take away the point for you, but there's computer scrapbooking software you can get (Scrapbook Factory Deluxe

Haven't used it personally, but might be worth an investigation?

I do, but am very bad - I get horribly enthusiastic for about a week and then never do it again which drives dh demented as I insist on buying all the proper stuff to do each new hobby with. My one-hit wonders so far have been: knitting, cross-stich, patchwork, card-making, sequining, patchworking scenes on dd's clothes, making my own clothes, painting portraits, making jewelery...the list goes on!

From what you described I can't imagine there would be too much drawing involved, so maybe you would really enjoy it?

I did a scrapbook for a friend's wedding - gave it to her as a present. I did a few pages with all the wedding details, and left the rest for her to fill up. I was SHOCKED at how expensive it was! I spent about £70.00 on the book and scraps (I go the nicest stuff, because it was a wedding present, but still, it seemed EXTORTIONATE!).

It WAS bloody lovely though...

I have been into cardmaking for about 19 months or so. I have a basic scrapbook but so far I've only attempted a double spread of our honeymoon photos. I have never really made the time to do any more.
A lot of the techniques used in cardmaking can be applied to scrap booking. My only real recommendation is not to cut up the original photos until you are 100% happy with the result, you could photocopy them first and play around with a few ideas.
I do think that it can work out very expensive, but don'y rush into buying the first things you see-have a good look around and see what's on offer.
Happy scrapping.

Hi kkgirl.
I have done some scrapbooking in the past and it's great fun. If you've done card making and bought some stuff for that then you'll have at least some of the bits you need for scrapbooking.
You don't have to draw anything (unless you want to) you can even buy stick on letters if your handwriting is too bad. There are TONS of websites (mostly American though) for ideas.
This is a good one to get an idea of what's involved in the basics: /link{http://www.learn2scrapbook.com\learn2scrapbook}
This is one that you can get online supplies in the UK /link{

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The UK supplies one UKsupplies
A couple of listing sites which link you to other scrapbooking sites
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i scrapbook and have now got over 60 pages!! i have been covering DD's life and the events in it. I buy i lot of my scrapbooking stuff through ebay, a lot of american sellers will post to the uk and you can save loads.

i will worn you though its not a cheap hobby and i find finding time to do the pages is hard. but it love the results and the comment people have mabe about DD's book.

i would recommend buying a scrapbbok with page protectors, like the plastic wallets you get for A$ page but stronger. DD loves looking at her scrapbboks and these protect my hard work from her greasey fingers.

on my home PC i have got some links to some great sites which are good for ideas.

would love to here from some fellow scrapbookers and maybe we could start a yahoo groups page and post some pcitures of our layouts.

sorry did it again
one more listings site for you
top50 sites
There are also companies (eg Creative Memories)that do a party plan type thing (that's how I got involved) which can be quite good fun because once you've had an introductory session, they organise workshop meetings where you can get ideas for page layouts - excellent if you have problems creatively (that's me!), use the equipment (so you dont have to buy it all at once) and a good social time too. Also all their products (paper, pens glues etc) are acid free and so won't damage your photos (something to be a bit careful about if you want your albums to last a long time.
Its a really nice hobby and you can mae albums as gifts for people, as well as just making all your exisiting photos into nice looking albums.
If you decide to give it a go, happy scrapping!

Does anyone else find all the gaudy text, borders etc rather, erm, "Ugh" for want of a better word?

am planning to do some sacrapbooks for the nans this christmas, of the two boys. I bought some baby photo albums in the sale at woolies a few months back 2.50 each!! keep saying I'm gonna start!!
It can be very expensive but if you dont get too many brought embelishments then it isn't too bad. you could make cut outs and such.
kgirl and other beginers, why not do a mini scrapbook first.
following on from dingle, if you have a printer that can do photo's why not copy the originals and use them in the srapbooks.
Oh and try to make sure the pens, glues etc and papers you use are acid and lignin(sp) free.

Thanks for all your comments, girls.
I think before I go mad and buy lots of stuff I will have a go at card making, and see how I get on.
DH has given me a voucher for Argos, so I am going to buy the card starter kit to have a go. If that goes well I might have a go at a mini scrapbook. Are they usually more than 1 page?

you could make one of the small concertina ones. or just do a page. Or when you make a card you can do a mini scrapbook and stick it on the card, I saw these in a few mags.
Argos have some supprisingly good craft stuff, the superstores have even more. I got quite a few bits there incl. some cards which were very good quality.

I think just having the confidence to have a go is a big step, try a few different things & see what effects you prefer-there is so much you can do. Let us know how you get on-you never know in the New Year dd is at nursery 5(yes 5!!!)mornings a week-I might even be able to do a few more pages myself[live in hope emoticon]

Decided to buy card making set for now. Am going to try it out and see how I get on and then if it is ok I will try out scrapbooking later.

Decided to buy card making set for now. Am going to try it out and see how I get on and then if it is ok I will try out scrapbooking later.

kkgirl-- beware cardmaking is soooo adictive

Champs

Thanks.
I bought a kit yesterday, and was looking at the book last night.
I'm not sure i can do it though. It relies on being able to stick things on straight, and place stickers here and there. I'm not sure if I can do it, as I am not very artistic.

kkgirl-- you'd be surprised how creative you turn out to be. If you feel you really can't get it straight why not put stuff on at an angle? or you can make very light ruler lines and then stick the stuff on the lines and you can then erase the lines. why not do a trial one first, use copier paper as the sard and cut some paper up into shapes, then you can have a play until you feel confident.

Have made my first card, a simple affair of some stars, with a border. Pretty rubbish really.
Then my dd comes along, really keen to have a go, and makes a beautiful card, using foam and stickers, makes mine look really pants.