How To Scrapbook: The Learning Process

Posted by Nick Niesen on November 1st, 2010

If you have always wanted learn how to scrapbook and just haven?t found the time yet, you aren?t alone. There are many people out there who are just like you, who are just waiting to learn. You?ll find that everywhere you look there are opportunities to learn, you just have to pick and choose the right ones for you. You need to start out learning basic techniques and page layouts and build from there. However, if you try to jump ahead in the learning process, you might find that scrapping is not as fun as you had hoped, so remember to ease into scrapping to get the most out of it. Before you know it you will be scrapbooking like a pro and you?ll forget that you were ever not sure about how to get started!

Learning how to scrapbook is a great idea because it will allow you to preserve all of your memories not only for yourself, your friends, and your immediate family, but also for future generations. Think about how it would be to look through scrapbooks that your great-great grandmother made, and realize that you can now do this for future generations. Scrapping has been around essentially since the beginning of time in one form or another, because it allows people to catalogue all of their favorite memories and look back on them from time to time. Some of the most influential people of our time, including Thomas Jefferson, have been scrappers and that is because it truly is a great pastime.

When you learn how to scrapbook you may be overwhelmed by all of the products on the market. There are literally countless types of papers, decorative elements such as stamps and stickers, as well as different ways to adhere pictures to the page. It may be a good idea to get started with a kit of some sort that will help you work with the basics. Luckily, there are some great guides on the market that can teach you all you need to know to get going. Once you understand how to work with the basics and make a page look good, you will find that you naturally branch out and start trying new things. Scrapbooking is a truly learning process -- you will find that you never stop learning new techniques.