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

Step 1:

I would recommend you read these articles:

• The Elements that Make Up a Scrapbook Page
  Let’s take a look at the basic makeup of a layout. By knowing the common elements that make up a page, you’ll know what to expect and how to work with the different elements.
• Learn How to Make a Scrapbook
  After learning about the basic makeup of a page, you’ll want to learn the steps to creating a layout and the functions of different elements. After you’ve created a bunch of pages and put them into an album, you’ll have a scrapbook!
• How to Scrapbook: Creating a Layout from Start to Finish
  Read about my little process and see how I put together a layout from start to finish.

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:

• Beginner Scrapbooking – 9 Simple Steps
• Efficient Photo Sorting for Scrapbooking: Simplify Your Process and Save Time
• Mastering Photo Cropping: Techniques for Stunning Scrapbook Layouts

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

Other Beginner Articles

You might like these articles:

• • 4 Beginner Layout Design Ideas
  • 5 Tips for Beginner Scrapbookers
  • 10 Scrapbooking Facts All Scrapbookers Must Know
  • 10 Tips for Scrapbooking on a Budget
  • Effective Ways to Learn Scrapbooking
  • Frugal Scrapbooking
  • History of Scrapbooking
  • My Little Scrapbooking Advice
  • Scrapbooking Books
  • Scrapbooking Magazines
  • What are Scrapbook Sketches Used For?
  • What is Scraplifting?

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