On August 2006 The Scrapbooking Industry commercially celebrated twenty-five years of existence which was stated by not other then Marielen W. Christensen of Keeping Memories Alive, the worlds first scrapbooking store was head quartered in Spanish Fork, Utah, USA, in 1981.
In 1976 Christensen began designing creative pages for her family’s photo albums creating her own memories. The conference at Salt Lake City opened the door to a massive interest in memory book designs in the United States, and Christensen was invited to give seminars and teach classes to countless groups, including Brighan Young University’s Camp Education Weed and numerous church, civic and school groups. During the twenty-five years following, she lectured continually throughout the Intermountain West.
Later in 1993 , The Christensen’s began a mail order division in the back of the building. The business grew very quickly by word of mouth there for they had to move its warehousing to a larger facility in 1994. They moved the shipping department to a larger ware house in 1998.
Keeping Memories Alice opened the first wholesale division in the scrapbook industry in 1993, providing other stores with a source to purchase products at one place. this helped move the industry forward as small scrapbook stores began opening up all over the United States.
Keeping Memories Alive made history again in 1996 as they launched the first commercial website for scrapbook supplies. Scrapbooking is now a multimillion dollar industry all around the world, Scrappers or scrapbookers get together and scrap at each others homes, local scrapbook stores, scrapbooking conventions, retreat centers and even cruises dedicated slowly to scrapbooking. These are a few of many great ways to learn tips and new ideas.
The above article taken from http://www.scrapbookartisan.com/moderndayscrapbooking.php
Scrapbooking got its start over 150 years ago. There are many variations of who really started scrapbooks, but the earliest records of scrapbooks was revealed in a publication by John Poole (from the UK) back in 1826. This book was a bound collection of poems and engravings. It was also a reference of how to collect and rearrange scraps.
In those days, scraps were printed pieces of paper with various ornate designes. The very first scrapbooks contained pressed flowers, paper cuts, feathers and other bits of memoriebilia. Scrapbooking became more popular in the middle class nineteenth century life.
A very popular type of scrapbook, "drawing room," scrapbook, was the center of social exchange and discussion for people during the mid eighteenth century. These were full of memories and stories of family members and activities.
Scrapbooking started to decline during World War 1. The recession caused scrapbooking businesses to close down.
During the mid to late 1800′s, various companies began producing leather bound scrapbook albums that included themed pages. Most common designs were of birds and flowers.
Famous American author, Mark Twain was into scrapbbooks! He invented scrapbook pages that had pre-adhesive pages for mounting pictures. This was one of Mark Twains most popular books sold.
In 1980, modern scrapbooking was made popular when Marielen Christensen presented over 50 volumes of her family memory books at the World Conference on Records in Utah, USA. It generated so much interest that the Christensen family opened a store called Keeping Memories Alive, that is still in business in Utah.
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We have discovered a great website that features a whole bunch of scrapbook items for literally pennies on the dollar! It is called "Scrapbook Clearance," and it contains discontinued and overstocked items from stores and manufacturers across the country. Whether it is custom colored papers, stickers, cropping blocks, stencils, die cut shapes, even Disney products, etc. you will find what you need.
There is even a cute "scrapbook" song that is sung by a little girl that is hilarious! You can hear it for free when you get to that site.
As mentioned on an earlier post, we averaged start up costs to scrapbook at around $75.00. With buying your start up materials and tools from Scrapbook Clearance, you can spend way less than that.
There is no excuse not to start scrapbooking now!
Martha Stewart has partnered with EK Success to release a line of scrapbooking products. She finally "gets it." She knows that scrapbooking is one of the fastest growing hobbies in the USA, possibly in other parts of the world as well. She has tapped into the this craze by working with EK Success, who is a very large and successful company specializing in crafts. It appears to be a perfect between these two business titans because it will certainly bring scrapbooking to the forefront of people’s attention.
Martha Stewart will start out in specializing in scrapbooks for baby and wedding themes, since there has been a baby boom as of late and with many people getting married. Although her presentation will be geared towards the beginner with an upscale twist. This should be a great addition to present in her magazines, TV shows and other signature media outlets she owns.
Stay tuned for segments on her TV show on scrapbooking.
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There are literally thousands of resources online for the scrapper, whether beginner or experienced. One great link to go to is at: http://www.scrapbookpageideas.com/
For those of you who are very "right brained" creative, you will not have any problems coming up with many different ideas for your pages and themes. However, the best way to get your "juices" flowing is to see what others have done with their scrapbooks.
Other very good resources for other scrapbooking ideas can be found below:
http://www.shelleysscrapbooklayouts.com/
http://www.allscrapbookingideas.com/scrapbooking-ideas.html
http://www.michaels.com/art/online/projectList?channelid=8
http://genealogy.about.com/od/heritage_scrapbooking/
http://www.simplescrapbooksmag.com/inspiration/index.ihtml
These are just several of hundreds of resources online that can help give you ideas when starting out on your next scrapbook. If you have any great resources with helping you "jumpstart" your perfect idea or theme, please post it in our comments here.
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Besides coming up with a sketch of your layout, you should jot down a collection of "ideas" for scrapbooks. In other words, as we mentioned in a previous post, the reason why we scrapbook is for preserving the memories of family, friends, activities, special moments in our lives, and celebrations, to name a few. Whatever idea or ideas you come up with, make sure you jot it down now. It may be that you never start a scrapbook with a particular them you made in your notebook, but it can jar your creativity to make a new idea for your next scrapbook. Sometimes we get inspired to make a scrapbook just for the fun of it.
The tools you need for your idea notebook should be a vinyl folder notepad that can hold a pen and a legal pad of paper. The next thing you should have is a collection of magazine articles, newspaper articles, or even interesting online articles that you print out from what other scrappers are doing. You know, just about every scrapbook idea has been tried and used, but you can put your own "twist" on it.
Along with keeping your ideas in one organized place, make sure you have enough pictures and other archived items to fill out this new scrapbook.
When you start your sketch sheet from an idea you have chosen from your idea notebook, make sure you take the time to choose a binder that reflects the "mood" of your theme. If you are in a "black and white" mood for a topic, make sure you have black and white photographs and lay it out in a binder that is black and white or gray in color.
A scrapbook comes alive when it aligns with your particular "mood" you are in while planning and starting to put together the scrapbook. The number of ideas in your scrapbook notebook is only limited by your imagination.
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A great strategy before you start a scrapbook is to sketch out the layout. This is often the most basic step for any scrapbooker. Pay attention to the theme you plan, gather your pictures, and on a legal pad, sketch out the placement of most of the items. Don’t worry, you can always change things later. The most important part is to get the feel for laying out things. When a beginner first starts out on scrapbooking, the largest fear is getting the sense of design. You see, designing the layout on a scrapbook is no different than a highly paid Madison Avenue art designer. You must know what comes natural in placement of items to make a pleasing arrangement.
1) Draw the rectangles or other shapes of where you want to place the photos on the legal pad.
2) Draw rough shapes of the decorative items or letters you want in and around the pictures.
3) Draw the outline of the pages and additional design patterns that you want around the whole page
A good example of a scrapbook planning sketch can be found here.
In the example shown on that link, the theme is a father and son theme.
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We are pleased to announced our first scrapbook expert interview featuring Grace from Arizona. She has over 5 years of scrapping experience and enjoys her hobby immensely. She is pretty knowledgeable now and has some tips and tricks to share with you.
If you liked this interview, feel free to make a comment here for your feedback. Enjoy!
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They say that nothing compares to experience in getting the job done! So we are lining up several scrapbookers to interview. We will be asking questions that cover literally everything you can think of regarding scrapbooking.
For those of you visiting this site, please feel free to comment on this post about what things you want to know about scrapbooking. Our poll at the moment shows that you would like to know about scrapbooking ideas. This will cover the theme of your scrapbook and the types of materials used.
Some of you have been asking about digital scrapbooking, which is an up and coming hobby within the scrapbook craze. We will cover digital scrapbooking in the next several months.
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The next step in making a successful scrapbook is to find a clean table to work on. Two of the most popular places in your home to use as a workspace is the kitchen table or a handy folding table that you can open up in the dining room or basement. There are many people who have a "hobby" table, one where they make crafts, models, or just generally "fix" things.
Wherever you choose as your workplace, make sure you get a table covering for the whole table or at least a used old placemat to put on top of it as you are going to be working with glue, paint, and other chemicals when assembling your masterpiece. Also, make sure it has good ventilation. You don’t want to get caught up in some overpowering smells! The last thing is to make sure you have great lighting on top of the table. A desk lamp is also a good choice. There will be a time when you need to look closely at your project and have to carefully work with small detail work. The desk lamp sure comes in handy.
As mentioned in the last post on scrapbook material organizers, you can bring out these containers to the table where are going to work. Don’t forget your legal pad and pen too! With the table, scrapbook material containers, and legal pad, you are ready to go!
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