the USA, and recently and worldwide hearts of people were won by a great view of needlework – scrapbooking. Literally scrapbooking is transferred from English as the book from cuttings.
The main objective in scrapbooking this creation of albums for storage of photos and memorable things. The album created by a scrapbooking technique differs from usual albums in what is, in fact, a part of memories about which tell the photo. Such album uses not only visual, but also tactile perception, it contains elements which it is possible to touch, feeling mood of all album. By means of scrapbooking you will be able not only beautifully to issue family photos, but also will be able to create unique stories which keep in themselves the memory of any given event.
It is possible to take ready preparation as a basis of an album or to independently make pages of rigid cardboard, having fastened them with an office spring, rings or tapes. Each page becomes covered by a background and is decorated by the figures and a framework which are cut out from various paper. On one page one or several photos of various sizes and forms decorated with decorative elements can be located.
To photos inscriptions in the form of short poems, quotes, ridiculous phrases or just successful signatures usually become. In an album there can be labels, pockets, envelopes and sacks for memorable knickknacks.
Usually some subject or an event is characteristic of scraps albums: love, wedding, the first years of life of the child, family celebration or rest, friendship, etc. For a form and materials of restrictions is not present – use everything that will prompt your imagination. Some masters do albums not only a standard book form, but also in the form of caskets, lockers, soft parcels and even lodges. Such album will find room for not so many pages, but each of them will be really unique and unique.
As tools for scrapbooking scissors, needles, a pricker, a puncher, the stapler, stationery knives, an emery paper, matches and even the sewing machine use. In the choice of improvised materials it is possible to show imagination. Various cuttings from magazines, cards, fabric, buttons, tapes, chains, beads, flat stones, coins, lightnings, etc. are used. It is possible to use everything that reminds you of an event and is located in an album.
Elements of scrapbooking were present at various diaries, magazines and notebooks of various eras. In the USSR children often pasted portraits of favourite performers, newspaper and journal cuttings, lyrics and notes in notebooks. The soldiers who served the put time created dembelsky albums which included the main ideas of scrapbooking.
In the West scrapbooking arose in the eighties the last century and there was mainly a hobby for housewives. However over time this hobby began to increase in mass scales. Along with scrapbooking evolution the infrastructure of the shops serving this hobby actively developed.