Scrapbooking with their own hands is not a new trend handmade. Decorating family scrapbooks, notebooks, as well as the creation of unique greeting cards people began to engage in the 19th century, when the paper has become available to everyone. To us, this art has come from the West, and has become even more popular thanks to our Russian craftswomen.
The new hobby – scrapbooking
Scrapbooking offers the opportunity to dive into the creation of a unique memorial of interesting moments of the past, using special materials to create handmade products, as well as improvised objects. Using your own imagination, you can beautifully issue cards in scrapbooking style with your own hands on any holiday, home photo album or diary, in which you can keep notes about every day lived. For some, the process of creating such products will be the best outlet, becoming a fascinating hobby, and someone just wants to give a gift of a unique thing, made by hand.
Scrapbooking styles
Scrapbooking is a multifaceted art, which implies a variety of ways of execution. Thus, there are many styles of scrapbooking, among which stand out:
- Eritage (not to be confused with vintage) to create photo albums with vintage photos that are at least a hundred years old. Such an album in the scrapbooking technique is created from vintage items specifically to create a family timeline.
- Vintage – differs from the previous style by the fact that to create it it is not necessary to “scour” all the flea markets of the city in search of vintage fabrics or beads. To decorate the product simply use artificially aged materials. If we are talking about a photo album, then to create it, they use aged photos with a retro effect (sepia or black and white filter).
- Freestyle – is characterized by brightness, modernity and cheerfulness. It looks a little messy, dotted with lots of decorations, but it is perfectly suited for children’s or students’ photo album design.
- Steampunk is a special style of scrapbooking that is loved by the strong sex. It is characterized by the use of a large number of metal objects and various technical devices, such as gears, bolts, keys, etc. Together with gilded and leather elements, your photos will look like a reportage from another world.
- Shabby Chic is a scrapbooking style that is perfect for all romantic natures. It is characterized by tenderness and grace. Soft, pleasant tones, beads, dried flowers, beads, romantic poems and lace are used to create such a design. Shebby chic carries in itself, simultaneously, two directions of scrapbooking – classic and retro style.
- “Clean and Simple” is ideal for connoisseurs of minimalism. It is characterized by a minimum of details and plenty of free space.
Each of the presented styles of scrapbooking has its own fans. In addition, this trend of handmade is constantly evolving, giving birth to new styles that are striking in their beauty and amazing execution.
You can make your own scrapbooking products or use the services of professionals.