How to Scrapbook

Transcript Hi, i’m Carla Sylvester, and yes, I am a certified scrapbook addict. I’ve always loved playing with words and colors and photographs. I grew up in an Air Force family, and over those years I just, okay, so I’m also a pack rat. So I kept collecting things that I couldn’t let go of. …

Transcript Adding texture to your scrapbook pages makes your beautiful memories pop even more. Some people prefer to have little to no texture on their pages, and that’s fine. Some people prefer to have it very flat, as flat stickers, flat photos, and so on, and absolutely nothing wrong with that. However, if you do …

Transcript Painting on scrapbook page, like painting anything, is a lot of fun. It really doesn’t need to be scary. I want to show you a couple of pages that we’ve used paint on, and then we’ll look at a couple of techniques. So on this page, paint is used in a couple of different …

Transcript When you’re scrap booking, you can create your own customs backgrounds using spray-mists. You can, also, use these mists to change the color of paper that you already have, to change the color of other page elements that you already have, and so lets see how some of these work. There are lots of …

Transcript Distressing paper for your scrapbooking and other paper crafts is a lot of fun, and some people actually find it to be a little bit of a stress relief. But mostly it’s fun. So I’m going to show you a few different techniques on this one piece of paper, and they’re actually all illustrated …

Transcript A great way to add texture to your scrapbook page is my crumpling your paper and there are actually a few different techniques to doing that. First of all, think about the paper that you’re using to crumple. I have two different types of paper here. This is a heavy duty card stock and …

Transcript Hi I’m Carla and we’re talking about how to tear paper. Yes, that’s right, how to tear paper for scrapbooking, because believe it or not, there are actually a couple of little tricks that are helpful to know. So here I have a piece of cardstock and the first thing to know is that …

Transcript A great way to customize your scrapbook page is with punches and in another video you can learn how to use craft punches. Right now, we’re going to talk about edge punches. I have two different punches here and I want to show you how they work. Punches work by punching a die cut-looking …

Transcript Craft punches are a great addition to your scrapbooking toolkit and I’ve got a few different types here for you to have a look at. These are all craft punches and so are these over here. And these are edge punches which you can learn more about in another video. So with our craft …

Transcript Sometimes you’re working on a scrapbook page, and you just need a circle. And so, let’s see how to do that. Well, you could do it the old-fashioned way. You could trace a circle, and these are three that I traced last night using different jar lids. You could trace a plate and then …

Transcript Die-cuts on your scrapbook page are very similar to stickers, except that they don’t have adhesive on the back. So you can treat them like a sticker or not. I have here an assortment of die-cuts and a die-cut, some are just plain shapes, but a lot of them now have printing on them. …

Transcript One of the really fun things about scrapbooking is playing with stickers, and I think those of us who’ve been scrapbooking for a while love to collect stickers. I’ve got just a few different kinds over here. We have alphabet stickers, stickers that can be a title, stickers that are flat, stickers that are …

Transcript Scrapbooks aren’t necessarily all about photos, a lot of times you’ll want to include memorabilia into your scrapbooks. All those little pieces of life that you collect that have meaning, that help you tell the story. So here I want to tell you a little about the kinds of memorabilia that you can include …

Transcript One of the key elements of your scrapbook page is, of course, your title. The title tells the viewer right away what this page is about, and so there are lots and lots of different ways to create your title for your page, and I have just a few examples here. Probably the absolute …

Transcript When you’re designing a scrapbook page, one of the decisions you have to make is what colors am I going to use on my page? Well, one way to do that is just to look at a paper pad and say, oh, I love these pretty colors. I’m going to use this on my …

Transcript Sometimes when you’re cutting pages or photos for scrapbooking, you’ll find that your paper trimmer just isn’t enough and your scissors just aren’t enough. What you need is a craft knife, otherwise known as an X-Acto knife, a crafts knife, whatever. Craft knife, when you’re cutting with it, you’re always going to want to …

Transcript When you’re designing your scrapbook pages, very often you’ll want to have a photo really pop off the page, and one great way to do that is by matting the photo. And, matting the photo, also, makes it more important. So, when you have your page, you want to have a focal point. You …

Transcript When you’re creating your scrapbook pages very often you’ll find that you have a photo that would be great if it was just that one person not in the picture, and I’m not talking about your great aunt Emily in the third row of the family portrait. I’m talking about something like this photo …

Transcript Most of us who scrapbook or do any kind of paper crafting can’t live without our paper trimmers. I have two different types here to show you. They work in a very similar way, but they’re a little different, so that’s why I wanted you to see a couple of different types. This one …

Transcript Trying to design your first scrapbook layout can be kind of intimidating, what do you do, where does the picture go, what else do I need on my page. One of the easiest ways to get started with designing a scrapbook page is to use a sketch or a page map and you can …

Transcript When you’re scrapbooking, adhesives are really important because that’s what holds the whole project together. So I have an assortment of adhesives here and I want to show you just a few. Over here we have an assortment of wet adhesives, or glues. glossy accents and other products such as diamond glaze can be …

Transcript When you are just starting to scrapbook, there are just a few essential tools you really need, and these are my personal preferences. But I think almost everybody would agree you need some paper, you would like to have a paper trimmer, although some people do prefer to use a craft knife. A ruler, …

Transcript A lot of us who are starting to scrapbook are trying to decide whether we need all these products that say ‘acid free’ and so on. It really depends on what your purpose is in scrapbooking. If you’re creating a scrapbook that you want to hand on to your children, and your grandchildren, and …

Transcript Hi I’m Carla and we’re talking about scrap booking. One of the first decisions you need to make when you start scrap booking is what kind of scrapbook you want to use. So I have several different types of scrap books here. One of the more traditional types is a post bound album. So …