Scrapbooking

Scrapbooking [ ˌ skrapbʊking ] denotes a craft hobby. Photos are stuck in a so-called Scrapbook and decorated with stickers and other matching things to the photos. Unlike traditional photo albums are telling stories in scrapbooks and photos presented particularly through texts and artistic design of the pages. Depending on the event and tickets and the like are glued into the scrapbook.

Etymology

The word scrapbooking comes from the English "Scrap ", which means snippets pieces. In this snippet scrapbooks and paper pieces are glued as pieces of the life history and collected. First prominent Scrapbooker were Queen Victoria of Great Britain and Mark Twain.

Meaning of scrapbooking is to reduce photo albums on the best images and to put these in with accessories scene. At the same time the story is to be held to the images on small texts and annotations. The overall impression of trying the mood at the time of admission to mediate and so to preserve about the pure addition photo. At the same Scrapbooking offers the possibility to incorporate many artistic techniques and styles in the albums.

Materials

The main materials that are needed for scrapbooking are:

• Papers, plain or patterned, as a carrier for the photos ( a common format is 30 × 30 cm)
• To give adhesives, scissors and Motivstanzer the motives of an individual form.
• Stamps and stamp pads for themed ornaments and decorations on the support material.
• Embellishments - Ornaments and applications of cloth or cardboard, which are also glued to the photo on the support material.
• Colors ( as pins or liquid for application with brushes )
• Materials to bind the Scrapbooks - this can be simple wire comb bindings or individual threadbindings.
• Eyelets ( eyelets in various colors and shapes)
• Masking Tapes ( Scene Tape )

Scene

A feature of the Scrapbook movement is often common practice of hobbies. Workshops in which certain techniques and skills are just as much to scrapbooking as so-called Crops. Crops have meetings Scrapbookern, in which the participants ' own work, often at a predetermined thematic focus, create. Especially popular are events with prominent scrappers. Among the most renowned names of the scene include Tim Holtz and Donna Downey. Another form of exchange among scrappers are swaps where Scrapper elements of scrapbook pages to predefined themes to exchange with each other to gain new impulses for their own works.

Alternatives

From the photographic point of view, scrapbooking is a bit problematic as ornament and adhesives can evaporate chemicals that could damage or destroy the photos pasted into. For about acid-free and lignin-free scrapbooking materials should be used.

Meanwhile, there are also digital scrapbooking. It has the advantage that a layout, an album with photos and decorative elements, with graphics programs created yourself and the photos can be edited. After that it can be bound by photo services for books.

Digital Scrapbooking saves the storage space for work and accessories.