Scrapbooking for Beginners – The How-To Guide

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Scrapbooking for Beginners - The How-To Guide

Here’s a compilation of articles, scrapbook videos, and short how-to-scrapbook tips that are written to help newbies get started, easily and quickly.

With smartphones being so commonplace nowadays, it’s so easy for anyone to snap photos using the camera function on their smartphone, so taking thousands of photos become a reality for many of us. And some of us may be looking for a way to record our stories, preserve our memories, and have a slice of the scrapbooking fun too.

But for a beginner, this hobby can seem very exciting and yet a bit overwhelming at first glance. With the endless rows and aisles of scrapbook supplies lining up the craft stores and scrapbook layouts that seemed to burst with colors, embellishments, and whatnots, it’s not hard to understand why.

Let’s push all that worries aside for now. Here’s a quick plan to let you get caught up on what this creative endeavor entails.

Scrapbooking for Beginners – 3 Simple Steps

Scrapbook layout of Dawn My Cousin

Step 1:

I would recommend you read these articles:

After going through the above articles, you’re likely to have a good grasp of what a scrapbook layout is made up of, how different page elements support a page, and the step-by-step process of putting together a page.

Step 2:

Now it’s time to watch some videos created for beginner scrapbookers and these will let you view the scrapbooking fundamentals visually.

Below is a nearly 9-minute Basic Scrapbook Page for Beginners video by Emilee’s Paper Caper. It will show you the steps to creating a basic scrapbook page using a few supplies and let the page title, journaling, and photos be the focus of this 12″x12″ layout.

Coming up is another video called Creating Your First Layout by Scrapbook.com and it shows you how to construct pages easily.

Step 3:

Take your time and go through the articles below:

I hope this compilation of articles and videos has given you the information to start your scrapping journey!

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5 thoughts on “Scrapbooking for Beginners – The How-To Guide”

  1. Thanks for the help! I have been wanting to make a scrapbook for a long time and I like how you told me everything that I need to know just for the beginning. I’m glad I got to see this to help me out!

  2. I received a lot of scrapbooking supplies, from albums, clear plastic sheets, cardboard stock cards of various sizes, and plenty of embellishments. I would be considered a beginner, can you point me in the right direction?

  3. Hi Charlotte,

    I’m glad that you’ve enjoyed the website! Yes, I too hope I did include more pictures when I wrote this article years ago. But if you like an article with more photos about how to scrapbook, please look at How to Scrapbook. Hope this helps!

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