What is Scrapbooking?

Scrapbooking is creative, relaxing, personal, addictive, and deeply fulfilling. At the very heart of Scrapbooking lies something valuable, that you can so easily lose and never regain - your memories. Scrapbookers preserve their memories on paper, for themselves and for future generations to enjoy. A scrapbook is a treasured record, and it makes a fantastic gift. A scrapbook is made up of four main features that work together to preserve a memory.

Photographs: Have you ever thought just how amazing a photograph is? It’s a split second of time captured and frozen. It’s the sliver of a memory and it tells a story. The memory is no longer left just to your imagination, now you can see the hard facts. Photographs document things, like the growth of a child or a special event. These are things you can describe with words but it means so much more to see it. They record the small everyday things that are so important, but that are so easily forgotten. What the weather was like, what you were wearing, the hug, smile, tear, or innocence in a child’s expression. Scrapbookers want to record all these little things because when will they ever be back to live that moment again? They want to look at their precious memories thirty years down the road and remember the way they felt that day. Your photographs express what’s in your heart – you took each one for a reason that’s personal to you.

Writing: Your words are an expression of what you think and feel inside. If you don’t write it, then nobody will know it and you’ll forget it, and then it’s gone for good. Scrapbookers write or ‘journal’ to record the things that a photo sometimes doesn’t capture. This might include some context like where you were, when, or why, or maybe something that happened just before or after the photo was taken, your emotions and how you felt, or things you heard and smelt at the time.

Memorabilia: Many people keep things they collected from a particular event – a Disney pass, a shell from the beach, a lock of hair. Scrapbookers include these things on their pages, something they can touch that relates to that memory.

Background papers and embellishments: These support the theme of your memory and tie the different elements together and enhance them to form the ‘whole’. We do this using beautiful acid-free products so that the materials don’t discolour or decay with time and the memories will be as fresh and well-preserved in decades to come as they are today.

If you want to capture the details of your life, to relive them and enjoy them again and again over the years then you should consider whether Scrapbooking is for you. We run regular workshops to get you started, and we sell many guides and magazines to support you. Our Scrapbooking workshops are very popular so pre-booking is essential. Check out our workshop schedule for details of the next workshop.