Hobbies And Interests
Photo Album
The first item to purchase for your scrapbooking kit is a photo album. This essential part of the kit holds all of your photos and decorated scrapbooking pages. These photo albums come in a variety of styles and sizes, holding from one photo per page to several photos per page. You can choose either a pre-decorated photo album, or a plain one that you can decorate in your own style.
Tools
You will need a few basic scrapbooking tools for each project. These include decorative scissors, paper punches, liquid or solid adhesives and a ruler. For scrapbooking, decorative scissors cut in a variety of different styles, such as a zigzag line. Scrapbook punches are single-hole punches in various shapes, such as stars, hearts or leaves.
Paper
Scrapbooking paper is another essential part of your beginner kit. Scrapbooking paper is the background for your photos and sets the visual tone of your finished product. This type of paper is available in many different styles, colors, shapes and designs. Choose paper that enhances, rather than distracts from, your central photo, and use acid-free paper to avoid gradual photo discoloration and degradation.
Embellishments
Scrapbooking embellishments bring personality to your finished product, and are another important component of your kit. There are many types of embellishments to choose from, depending on your design and vision for the scrapbook. Some types of embellishments include letters, brads, rubber stamps, stickers and stencils. You can also emboss the scrapbooking paper with a heat tool, or create eyelets on the paper with a hole-punch.
Photos
The final element needed for your beginner scrapbooking kit is your photos. Many crafters choose to create themed scrapbooks such as holidays, summer vacation or baby̵7;s first year. Choose a set of photos in a particular theme or time to begin your projects. You can also create a general scrapbooking project, foregoing the theme and using any pictures that hold special meanings or memories.