Handmade products have always been very popular, and nowadays – especially. You can make an original gift or just a unique handcraft with your own hands. Scrapbooking (a kind of craftsmanship, the purpose of which is to create photo albums, postcards and other products from paper), known among artists for several centuries, is no exception in this respect. Thanks to this type of creativity you can inimitably decorate a family photo album, make a delightful greeting card or gift box, transform a notebook or a book. This fascinating activity suits both children and adults, and allows you to realize your wildest fantasies and ideas. You will need some materials for that.
Since “scrapbooking” is a kind of creativity from paper, the material for it will be:
– is, first of all, paper, which can be quite diverse: single-sided, double-sided, single-color, colored, with lace edges, with drawings, different density, all kinds of sizes;
– albums. There are ready-made as well as blanks for them. You can choose albums on bolts or on rings, which in turn come in different colors and sizes;
– Decorations, impressive with their variety for every taste. This is a variety of artificial flowers, paper or fabric, buttons of various shapes and kinds, ribbons, brads, eyelets. This and clippings from felt, cardboard, paper, as well as rubbing and other stuff;
– Paints and varnishes for scrapbooking;
– glue materials (scotch tape, glue);
– tools. There is a large selection of different devices with which you can make a handicraft much faster and more beautiful. This category of goods includes a variety of scissors, hole punchers, cutter, luvers setter, and much more;
– stamps and stamping tools;
– Self-repairing mat. This item is simply indispensable in scrapbooking work. The mat contains the markings you need, helps protect your table surface and doesn’t blunt your tools.