What is Scrapbooking?

Scrapbooking is a craft that simply involves placing photos in albums that are archivally sound & photo safe. Mounting your photos in archival albums ensures that your photos will be around for many years to come.

Preserving your photos this way also gives you a place to write about the events in your life, to label who are in the photos, what they are doing & where the events took place. In short, each scrapbook is a mini history about your life.

Scrapbooks can be very simple or quite ornate. You will find your own unique style once you begin.

You can learn the basics in a beginners class at The Memory Store & add new skills in the different cropping sessions each week.

First Things First

Scrapbooking is a fun craft but it also has a technical side. You’ll want to find out when the next beginner’s class is & sign up! Feel free to bring a friend with you. Good times are always better when shared with a friend!

The beginning class will cover the basics for you. You will leave the class feeling confident about the entire process! We’ll teach you how to build a scrapbook page, how to use the tools that make it faster & easier & offer tips on organization. It won’t be long & you’ll be completing other pages & signing up for other cropping sessions! You’ll soon have an album of memories to share with those you love!

Questions

How Do I Find The Time?

If you wait for the time to scrapbook you’ll never find it! As with anything that’s important to you, you need to make the time. The best way to make progress is to sign up for Crop N Shop sessions & Crop Days, put them on your calendar & make them a priority.

What If I’m Not Creative?

This is the biggest myth of Scrapbooking! You don’t have to be creative to make albums. There are tons of idea books, magazines & creative ideas to help you out.

Getting together to crop with other Scrapbookers is a wonderful way to get new ideas & help with ideas for your pages.

How Do I Get Started?

Start with some current photos. After you develop your skills you will better understand your new hobby. You will need to decide what type of album you are going to create (chronological or theme) & organise your photos accordingly. We recommend that you stay away from special photos like wedding & heritage until you have some experience.

Getting together to crop with other Scrapbookers is a wonderful way to get new ideas & help with ideas for your pages.

Do I Have To Spend A Fortune?

Not unless you want to! There are affordable ways to scrapbook. You can also buy products you want a few at a time. Crop ‘N Shop at The Memory Store is a great way to use all the wonderful tools for a small fee until you can afford to buy some of your own.

Scrapbook Terms

• Acid
  A chemical substance found in paper that fades photographs. You will want to purchase products that are PH neutral or acid free.
• Crop
  This could mean to cut a photo down, or it could be a group of people getting together to scrapbook!
• Embellishment
  This refers to adding stickers, die cuts or other objects to a scrapbook page for decoration
• Journaling
  Writing on our pages to tell our story. Journaling is an important part of scrapbooking.
• Layout
  A layout refers to a page made with photos, embellishments & journaling.
• Lignin
  The part of wood that binds the cellulose fibres together. Paper that has not had the lignin removed is unstable & deteriorates quickly (e.g. newsprint) As lignin breaks down it gives off acids & peroxides that destroy photos. You will want to look for products that are acid AND lignin free to use with your photos.
• Mount
  Mounting is placing one object onto another. Photos can be mounted on paper or card for a very effective look.
• Smile
  What you do when you complete a scrapbook page!