Scrapbooks are today’s memories saved for tomorrow’s generations. Scrapbooks are the children of our minds, our hearts and our egos, frustrating, intriguing and fascinating. Scrapbooks are a storybook combined with pictures, embellishments, documents, and more. Scrapbooks are fun and tell a story about the characters preserved in its content. Scrapbooks are organized alphabetically and then divided into various subject headings, chiefly Performers and Plays. Scrapbooks are often embellished with ribbon or other pieces of fabric, colorful graphics, and other artwork. Scrapbooks are arranged in rough chronological order. Scrapbooks are currently a hot segment of the crafts market, but they were even more popular in the 19th century and early 20th century. Scrapbooks are is also an investment in your family and future generations. Scrapbooks are a wonderful way to treasure wedding memories or the memories of a.
Clippings
Scrapbooks have been a common way of preserving not only photographs, but also newspaper clippings, pamphlets, documents, and other assorted items. Scrapbooks containing correspondence, book jackets, newspaper clippings, magazine articles, pamphlets, photographs, and miscellaneous printed matter. Use gel pens, photos, clippings, and stickers. For scrapbooks this means that any preservation action must consider the needs of all the scraps, whether they are newspaper clippings, photos, theater programs or a combination of these and many other things. There were also the ubiquitous newspaper clippings, carefully folded and pasted in. In addition to theatre programs and star photos, the scrapbooks may contain ticket stubs, ads, newspaper clippings, autographs, postcards, and other paraphernalia. Includes organizational papers, meeting minutes, photographs, working papers, informational leaflets, and newspaper clippings as well as a list of participants in walks across Ohio taken by women promoting peace and disarmament during the month of July in the years 1984, 1985, and 1986.
Collection
Environmental control benefits the entire collection by substantially slowing the rate at which materials deteriorate.
Papers
Paper designed for photocopying, journals, or albums are the choice papers. Scrapbooks can include photos, journals, letters, report cards, certificates, stories, books, handprints, footprints, college papers and more.
Pages
Cardstock is a heavier, studier paper making it an ideal backing forpages with heavier embellishments or more photographs. When you have selected the photos for your scrapbook, you’ll need to decide how best to lay them out on the pages. The first step in creating your scrapbook pages is to organize your photos and journal notes so. Purchase the scrapbook pages and lay one on the inside of the scrapbook. Use a pretty ribbon to thread into the first hole on the back cover, through the scrapbook pages and up through the front hole at the top. What type of paper do you use in printing out your scrapbook pages. I would say that the reason for that size is because in traditional scrapbooking, there are a lot of elements on the pages, in addition to photos (for instance: greeting cards, napkins, matchbooks, theater programs or other memorabilia or tokens, plus other embellishments) so they need to be larger to accommodate all the many possible page elements.
Material
There are so many different materials which can be used in a scrapbook. There’s lace, ribbon, embroidery floss and other fabric decorations. Materials such as membership rosters, scrapbooks, newsletters, quilt show materials, and block of the month packets are added as they are created.
Acid-Free Materials for your scrapbooks preservation
Acid-free or archival-quality paper and boxes can be purchased in standard sizes from archival supply houses or can be custom made. Acid free glues are also available and can be effective when used in moderation. Acid free/lignin free/ and pH neutral paper is best for this use. Wrapping them with acid-free paper and storing them in a protective box provide better protection for scrapbooks and albums. Placing a scrapbook inside an acid free/lignin free/pH neutral box will also protect it from the affects of untreated wooden shelves. Boxes that are acid free and buffered can be found at archival supply stores. Paper that is acid free, lignin free, and pH neutral is best for use in scrapbooks, which hold photographs and are intended to stand the test of time. There is tape available with acid free adhesive: look for the kinds that are acid free, with an acrylic based adhesive. There are also some acid free types of glue, usually polyvinyl acetate (PVA), than can be used in small quantities. Stickers might say they are acid free, but be sure that includes the adhesive as well as the paper. Deacidification spray is sold in scrapbooking stores and art supply stores and is touted by many scrapbooking instructors as a solution to all acid problems.
Scrapbooks are the children of our minds, our hearts and our egos, frustrating, intriguing and fascinating. Scrapbooks are arranged in rough chronological order for many collectors. Scrapbooks are fun and tell a story about the characters preserved in its content. Scrapbooks are is also an investment in your family and future generations
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Thursday, May 17, 2007
Scrapbooking What's it all About?
According to Wikipedia:
"Scrapbooking is a method for preserving a legacy of written history in the form of photographs, printed media, and memorabilia contained in decorated albums, or scrapbooks. Historically, scrapbooking was a tradition similar to storytelling, but with a visual and tactile, rather than oral, focus."
This is a great definition and a starting point to consider when first pondering what to collect in the beginning stage of starting a scrapbook.
It can be alot of fun to pull out the old photographs and to look through them. One of the wonderful things about the beginning phase is to get together with your extended family and enjoy time with them. "Hint" Bring over the photos that you put together and let Grandma or Grandpa take a look at them. The older people will remember people in photos that you might not have even had the pleasure to meet. In my own circumstances I've never had the pleasure to meet my great Aunts and Uncles and there families in England and regret that, however between my grandfather and my own parents they have been identified them in photos. So I feel like I know them! There's alot of power in photographs that brings back the memories and helps us to identify people we don't see much. It helps us to remember details about them even when we haven't seen them for years. These memories are imprinted in our minds and we need a way to keep the memories alive. Scrapbooking helps do just that since it's a way to collectively organize our memories so that we can tell the story visually and tactilely even after we aren't around. While we are around we can share these and have them speak for themselves. It's amazing how when the scrapbook comes out the room gets quiet till someone gets the warm fuzzies and starts recollecting things about the beautiful work you've done.
Have a wonderful day and may you get another step completed in your scrapbooking and enjoy the trip down memory lane with your fellow scrapbookers.
"Scrapbooking is a method for preserving a legacy of written history in the form of photographs, printed media, and memorabilia contained in decorated albums, or scrapbooks. Historically, scrapbooking was a tradition similar to storytelling, but with a visual and tactile, rather than oral, focus."
This is a great definition and a starting point to consider when first pondering what to collect in the beginning stage of starting a scrapbook.
It can be alot of fun to pull out the old photographs and to look through them. One of the wonderful things about the beginning phase is to get together with your extended family and enjoy time with them. "Hint" Bring over the photos that you put together and let Grandma or Grandpa take a look at them. The older people will remember people in photos that you might not have even had the pleasure to meet. In my own circumstances I've never had the pleasure to meet my great Aunts and Uncles and there families in England and regret that, however between my grandfather and my own parents they have been identified them in photos. So I feel like I know them! There's alot of power in photographs that brings back the memories and helps us to identify people we don't see much. It helps us to remember details about them even when we haven't seen them for years. These memories are imprinted in our minds and we need a way to keep the memories alive. Scrapbooking helps do just that since it's a way to collectively organize our memories so that we can tell the story visually and tactilely even after we aren't around. While we are around we can share these and have them speak for themselves. It's amazing how when the scrapbook comes out the room gets quiet till someone gets the warm fuzzies and starts recollecting things about the beautiful work you've done.
Have a wonderful day and may you get another step completed in your scrapbooking and enjoy the trip down memory lane with your fellow scrapbookers.
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