All for scrapbooking: what tools and materials are needed?

Scrapbooking is a unique needlework, featuring a wide range of choice of supplies, decor and design techniques for albums, booklets, calendars and so on. Beginners for scrapbooking are limited to various types of paper, scissors, adhesive stickers and decorations. Professional craftsmen are armed with special stamps, eyelets; independently produce decorated paper, envelopes and other materials necessary for needlework.

For starters, you should purchase the necessary tools and materials.

List of core items.

• Paper is the main consumable. It differs in density, size, decor. Background paper - plain, is the backing, design - sheets with a variety of patterns, patterns and color combinations.

• Scoring board - serves for marking paper or other materials with subsequent folding of the sheet. Two sides of the board are marked with notches in the form of a centimeter tape. It is used when creating boxes, envelopes.

• Resettable rug. Allows you to maintain the sharpness of cutting tools. The special material from which the mat is made leaves no traces after cutters, knives. Protects the work surface from scratches.

• Cutter or clerical knife. It is recommended to purchase "everything for construction" in stores. The knife blades are brittle, easily broken off, a professional tool is characterized by improved quality of the working blade, which will allow you to use the knife for a long time.

• Scissors. They help cut blanks, give products a curly edge.An indispensable tool. Scissors are divided into straight lines - a blade with a straight cutting edge; bent - manicure scissors with curved edges, used to decorate rounded parts of the material, hard to reach places; curly - the cutting edge of scissors has a zigzag, wavy and other shape, used to create a decorative edge of the paper, design frames and so on.

• Ruler. It is necessary for marking parts. It is advisable to purchase a metal copy: getting on the edge of the ruler, the cutter blade will not spoil the material and the ruler itself, respectively, will not be dull.

• Hole puncher. The usual clerical hole punch is used to connect parts, sheets in scrapbooking. The most convenient in operation is an angular hole punch. It features a compact size with one working side. Border - creates an openwork edge of the paper.

• Figured hole punch for photos. The tool blade is decorated in various forms: flower, star, square and so on.

• Tweezers. Allows you to carefully place small parts on an adhesive base.

Additional tools to facilitate the work and expand the methods of decorating the album. Used mainly by professional craftsmen.

• Eyelets. Metal rings encircling a round cut on paper, cardboard and other materials. In scrapbooking, they are necessary to protect holes made by a puncher, to decorate parts, fasteners for laces, ribbons, threads.

• Cropodile - a tool for creating holes and simultaneous insertion of the eyelet. A professional device allows you to work with materials of various densities.

• The machine is punching. Allows you to cut the selected workpiece on complex materials (fabric, foil).

• Sewing machine. It is used as a tool that fastens parts together using threads; when creating binding or decor, designing the product in a zigzag or other line.

• Hand printer. Creates on paper or cardboard the intended inscriptions, ornaments, drawings, texts. Symbols are extruded onto an adhesive tape.

• Brads. Decorative buttons made in various styles. They allow you to connect parts with the possibility of their separation, are used as jewelry.

• Plotter. It can work as a printer, for printing various texts, images on paper from A4 to A0, and as a shredder.

Scrapbooking requires permanent materials that are sold ready-made as kits or purchased individually. Scrapers store things in transparent drawer-type boxes to easily find the desired item. The paper should be hidden in folders, preserving the quality and color of the sheets.

Acts as a place to store paper pages. The standard size of the album varies from 15x15 cm to 30x30 cm. The blanks are sold in specialized stores for hobbies or are made independently from dense materials. The fixing tool in the album is different: rings, bolts, ribbons, spring, binding. How exactly the pages in the album will be attached, the scraper decides.

Or thick cardboard. It is divided into smooth, textured and plain. In stores for scrapbooking is presented in a wide range: various geometric patterns, paintings, in the form of frames and so on.

The density of this paper is lower than that of a cardstock, but higher than that of a regular A4 sheet.It happens single and double. It is used to add color, maintain the theme of the album, creates the dynamics of objects. If the album is planned to be stored for a long time, it is recommended to purchase acid-free paper. It is used as the main background entirely (the material is taken in muted colors and with a calm pattern) or fragments, supplemented by ribbons, stickers, glitters and other art materials.

Allows you to securely fix the paper canvas and other materials among themselves, connecting them with the base of the album. The glue is presented in the form of double-sided tape, adhesive tape with notches, liquid glue, glue stick. For scrapbooking, the adhesive material must be acid-free, non-toxic, with no odor.

During operation, the adhesive is not distributed over the entire surface of the fragment, but at the corners or several sides. A large amount of glue will lead to a loss of decorativeness of the fragment, due to its leakage and hardening on the background page, deformation of the paper (forms waves at the places of gluing). Large, heavy elements may require the use of superglue.

The choice of scrapbooking ornaments is endless. The decor is applied purchased and made independently.

Most popular items:

• beads and beads;
• rhinestones;
• Badges
• textile;
• Chains
• polymer clay products;
• frames, mirrors;
• napkins;
• figures from felt, plastic;
• buttons
• imitation of precious stones;
• lace;
• corrugated, gilded and other paper;
• brilliant powders;
• rubbing;
• coins;
• chipboards - curly blanks made of cardboard, coated with paint or paper.

Presented in the form of a film glued to a transparent surface. Unlike stickers, rubbing is applied to the sheet with a thin layer. Varieties: patterns, drawings, inscriptions, ornaments.

Technique of application.

• If the rubbing is represented by individual elements on the sheet, you should individually cut out a suitable fragment and remove the protective film from it.
• Attach the finished material to a suitable area on paper, press down, smooth with a stick the places of the film on which there is no picture. A wand may be included.
• Make sure that the picture is printed on paper - the image that is transferred to the sheet will be barely visible on the film.

Stamping can be considered the main scrapbooking technique. To create a stamp, ink, a stamp pad, and a stamp are required.

Finished dies are made of rubber or photopolymer. Rubber products are more expensive, but they are highly durable. It’s worth buying a large set of stamps if scrapbooking brings a large number of orders; in other cases, stamps can be made independently or purchased photopolymer tools.

In scrapbooking, cabochons are decorative products of a round, oval or square shape, with a convex outer side, the flat base of which is made in the form of various patterns, paintings, vegetation or completely transparent. Cabochons imitate stones, cameos inserted into jewelry. They are used to decorate pages, envelopes, photographs, decorative elements, with emphasis on the particular details of the album.

Flowers are made of paper, fabric, have a corrugated and other shape with a flat base, facilitating the process of fixing the element. The material is presented in various colors, some products are coated with glitter. Sold individually and in sets, size range from 1 to 10 cm.

Widely used in creating and decorating an album. Satin, lace, texture, fabric, paper, shiny, velvet and so on are used. Borders, decorative elements are laid out from ribbons, bookmarks and loops are created.

The first and last pages of the album are upholstered with cotton, satin and velvet fabric. When placing cotton, holofiber under the material, a voluminous cover is created that expands the possibilities of decoration. Pieces of fabric, patchwork, are used to create decorative page elements, bookmarks, chipboard upholstery.

Figures made of cardboard, wood, felt. Made in various styles and directions. Sold in the form of sheet A4, in which elements are carved. Die cuts are made of paper in the form of tablets with text, journaling. From dense materials - letters, keys, curlicues and so on. All elements can be coated with paint, patterns, sparkles or completely be monophonic, clean.

For beginning scrapers, ready-made sets consisting of paper, album, holders and decor are suitable. Such kits are sold in specialized stores for hobbies or on the sites “Everything for scrapbooking”.

Sets are divided into two types: paper (for scrapbooking) and full (including jewelry, stickers, all elements of the set are selected in the same style).

After acquiring everything you need, the question arises - how to use it and how to create an album?

First you need to decide on the concept of the album, its theme. Further, choose the main accents — you should not take more than three elements - and consider their placement on the pages.

The most common mistake is an overloaded composition, the use of a large number of parts. The use of beautiful decor in large volumes makes the work tasteless, does not allow the eye to "catch" on the details. Therefore, at the initial stages, the sheets of the album are recommended to be performed in the same style and color scheme, with the gradual addition of other styles.

Looks good a series of stylistic directions every three pages.

• Photos in which there are many small details need decoration on a monophonic background of muted shades.
• The color of the substrate should be combined with the prevailing hue in the photo.
• The frame under the photo should not attract attention.
• The use of additional elements on the page - patterns, beads and other things - involves the use of plain paper.
• Photos are not placed close to each other - two images are enough on one page.
• Choose one design technique: stamping or distressing. Do not try to combine all the methods in one album.

See what the newbie needs for scrapbooking in the next video.