Ideas For Scrapbooking the Major Events in Your Life!

Scrapbooking is one of the most popular hobbies in the United States today. One of the more popular trends in scrapbooking now is to create scrapbooks of everyday moments. But it's still important to create more traditional scrapbooks - scrapbooks of vacations, weddings, and babies. And while a few ideas for scrapbooking these events follow, inspiration can be found all around.

-> Ideas for Scrapbooking Your Wedding

While most people have an album of wedding picture, creating a scrapbook of your wedding can be so much more. A photo album just holds the pictures from your wedding; a scrapbook tells the store. One idea for scrapbooking your wedding is to tell the story of how you and your spouse met. You can include pictures of each you growing up, pictures of the two of you together when you started dating, and finish with a picture from your wedding. Another idea for scrapbooking your wedding is to include memorabilia, such as flower petals and ribbon from your bouquet, a copy of your invitation, and the program from your ceremony. And in your wedding scrapbook you can also include a section of your lives after the wedding - honeymoon pictures, pictures of your first home together, and the story of your first anniversary.

-> Ideas for Scrapbooking Your Baby Album

Creating a scrapbook for your baby is usually pretty easy, since you have so much inspiration from the pictures! But there are ways to make your baby's scrapbook unique. One popular idea for scrapbooking your baby is to create an album with one layout for each month of your baby's life. Not only will you be able to capture all of the precious memories, but you will be able to see how much he or she has grown over the course of the year. A lot of new moms like to scrapbook their pregnancy as well. You can include when you first found out you were expecting, the first pictures of your baby (the sonogram!), and pictures of setting up the nursery and the baby shower. Another idea for scrapbooking your baby album is to include journaling from both parents about the first time you saw and held your baby.

-> Ideas for Scrapbooking Your Vacation

Probably the most common scrapbook that people make is a vacation scrapbook. An easy idea for scrapbooking your vacation is to keep a journal while you're on vacation. Then, when you get home, the journaling for your scrapbook is already completed (and you haven't forgotten any of the fun details!) And don't forget to take pictures of some of the non-sightseeing parts of your trip - traveling (on the plane, train, or in the car), arriving at the hotel, some of the fun meals you eat, and the mishaps that inevitably happen on vacation. Another idea for scrapbooking your vacation is to save all the ephemera you collect as you travel (ticket stubs, coins, brochures, etc.) to use when you get home on a page.

Plus to help lessen your frustrations if you are new to scrapbooking, it is best to have a definite plan of what materials to buy. So here are the basic scrapbooking materials that will prove useful even to the end of your activity.

Album - The most important scrapbooking material and the one that completes the stuff is the album. Conventional albums appear in 8½×11" or 12"×12" pages. However, smaller albums have become more popular with the integration of newer scrapbooking formats. Other smaller sizes appear in 6"×6" to 8"×8".

Page protectors - The main function that page protectors serve is to help lessen the susceptibility of your photos, memorabilia and the pages, as a whole to damages and tears.

Paper - Many scrappers turn to papers when it comes to adding designs and choosing the background of their layouts.

Cardstock - A staple in the scrapbooking world, cardstocks are more like cardboards than papers. These are effective in securing the foundations when placing memorabilia, embellishments and photos.

Adhesives - Well these materials simply hold everything together. These are widely available but be careful in choosing one though. Always look for acid-free adhesives and make sure that they are photo-safe.

Paper cutter - This material normally completes scrapbooking as they tend to add the finishing touches.

Scissors - A definite must-have. Scissors greatly help in manipulating further the designs and additions into the scrapbook.

Rulers - Precision, that the rule. Obviously, this material will save time when it comes to drawing clean, straight lines.

There are many other scrapbooking materials that you will find useful. Among them are the following: vellum, exacto knife, self-healing cutting mat, white plastic eraser, glue eraser, lettering and fonts, black pens, colored pens or pencils, grease pencil, photo corners and tote.

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