Scrapbooking is a connection word in many social circles; whether you are talking to pre-teens to those of “a certain age” (sorry, I can’t wrap my head around calling myself “a senior” to everybody in between. Usually everyone still have some printed pictures, but that has been changing over the past 30 years and how to care for their photos. In the 70’s, people used those “magnetic” albums, which were not really magnetic but has a sticky background and a clear cover you could peel back to arrange your pictures. The big problem with those is they don’t protect your photos from fading, the chemicals used were not archival quality and as many of us has learned after leaving photos in there for a couple of decades, photos are very difficult to get out!
Scrapbooking was always a social event. Scrapbook stores were everywhere and they hosted scrapbook nights. My daughter, a new mother t the time and I were first introduced to scrapbooking at a church meeting, then continued at the local scrapbook store every Thursday night. Now, before you start thinking, I don’t need to scrapbook with anyone, one of the benefits of these scrapbook nights, with different degrees of experience there were more opinions and suggestions on how to improve on a page when you felt something was missing. This is not like the suggestions you get from your mother-in-law, without any solicitation, but if you ask, they would have ideas. I learned a lot about scrapbooking from those wonderful women.
Now, after most brick and mortor scrapbook stores have closed, covid hits so we are isolated and all of that wonderful information has all but disappeared, along with the rows and rows of paper, embellishments and such. Yes, we still have the big three craft stores, but I don’t like the quality of some of the papers, and things don’t seem to match as well either. That is a topic for another day.
This list of twenty things every scrapbooker wants to know will help answer hopefully, most of your questions. The posts over the next few days is intended to give anyone interested in scrapbooking a straight-forward and concise over-view of what someone new to scrapbooking needs to know. The concepts and ideas that follow come from my 25 years of scrapbooking experience and that of my scrapbooking friends.
If you have questions on this wondeful journey, please leave them below and I will try to answer your quesion.