Scrapbooking for beginners: step-by-step photos, video
Increasing popularity is won by this kind ofcreativity, like scrapbooking. What is it? Why did this technique become so widespread? When you find out what this craft represents and try to do something in the scrapbooking technique with your own hands, you will no longer have such questions!
What is scrapbooking?
This is a special technique for decorating photo albums, postcards in order to preserve the dearest moments to remember.
The term "scrapbooking" came from the English. scrapbooking, where scrap is a notch, book is a book. That is, in the literal sense - "a book of scrapbooks." Scrapbooking is a kind of needlework, which is based on the production and design of own or foreign photo albums.
Scrapbooking is both an original form of creativity, and a specific method of psychotherapy. Scrapbooking for beginners will serve, in a way, a reassurance, with it all problems will go to the background.
Especially this technique is useful to those who do notlike standard store photo albums, for whom every thing matters. In this technique, make up the popular "Mother's Treasures" - an album or folder, caskets of paper, where the first lock of the baby is stored, photo from ultrasound, the first tooth.
Scrapbooking and photographs withrecreation. For example, the photo frame is decorated with seashells, marine decor, tapes are used, special ink for decoration, even tickets left from the trip are attached.
With the help of scrapbooking, an original story is formed, only for its transfer apply special techniques aimed at visual and tactile sensations.
Modern scrapbooking does not stop at creating albums in the classical style - in the collections of the master you can see albums-accordions, houses, boxes, baskets, postcards.
Scrapbooking for beginners is not as complicated asit seems. The work is greatly simplified due to the available templates, forms and blanks. A beginner skilled worker can easily make her own workpiece from a dense cardboard, cutting a heart, a house, a flower, etc.
The history of scrapbooking
Albums with clippings are collected by people not onlynow. For the first time the mention of such a hobby can be found in 1598. People collected poems, supplemented them with their own memorabilia, quotations - all this was pasted into simple books. In England, the book-citadels were popular. In Germany, girls had their own albums, where complex ornaments were created from the hair of girlfriends and other decor.
In the 17th century, scrapbooking takes on its form, especially after the publication of a special book, about how to properly and beautifully design poetry.
In the 18th century, Russia was alsoalbums. Even AS Pushkin was often asked to leave his poem to the hostess in it. In such an album beautiful poems alternated with dried flowers, beads, pieces of cloth.
But it was not exactly scrapbooking as a style, soas in the albums was not concise, and scrapbooking involves maintaining one style in the created composition and is dedicated to one event or person.
The term scrapbooking first appears in 1830. With the invention of photography, the development of scrapbooking has taken a second wind.
In the Soviet Union there were also "rudiments" of scrapbooking - girls' "questionnaires" were created with paper pockets, army albums, home photo albums, too, tried to decorate in an original way.
In Russia, scrapbooking became popular around 2005, after mentioning the well-known handcrafted scrapbooking forum and the translations from the English master classes of one of the masters.
What you need for scrapbooking - a list of materials and tools
To start scrapbooking, you will need some special tools and materials (a kind of basic set of a beginner master).
To begin with, you will need to buy designer cardboard. It is used as a basis for creating albums and postcards.
Will be necessary scrap paper. For beginners, the best solution is to buy sets of paper, so it will be easier to achieve a combination of style and color. The sizes of paper for scrap are 15x15, 20x20 and 30x30.
It will also be necessary Scissors, knife, aluminum liner. For cutting out small parts or paper lace will be useful scissors for manicure.
To attach items, you need adhesive, double-sided adhesive tape. You can buy high-quality glue stick or use PVA with roller.
It will be required ink and silicone dies to create fingerprints. Inks can be on a chalky basis or on the basis of pigments.
In addition, a special powder for dies, which will make the prints original and bright.
On a note! At this stage, there is no point in buying expensive materials. Beginners in this business will be able to do with improvised basic means. For example, if there is a printer at home, many of the labels can be printed on the printer, selecting a pre-interesting and original font. Then they can be cut out of paper, and then glued.
Replace dies will help image-translation. They are produced on a tracing paper, and to translate a drawing onto paper, it will need to be rubbed.
Beads, rhinestones, laces, ribbons, mini-figures- these elements are useful for decorating the product. They can also be made on their own or use the existing houses of the remains of old beads.
A special hole puncher for the scrapper. Even two. One - for processing corners of postcards, the second - to create certain patterns. Alternative to a punch- figured scissors.
For convenience it's worth to buy special mat for work. If it is not, then you can use a piece of unnecessary linoleum or a dense oilcloth. A mat is required for the convenience of cutting with a knife.
On a note! You do not have to strive to buy everything at once. Collection with paper and decor will be replenished gradually, and soon in the arsenal will be enough material for the creation of masterpieces.
Master class on scrapbooking for beginners
For beginners, it is important to understand the principle of work and to try the basic techniques of scrapbooking, but there are quite a few of them. The most popular of them are:
Decoupage (pasting objects with napkins and pictures).
Stamping - imaging with stamps.
Journal - an inscription on a sheet of paper, referring to the event in the photo.
Quilling - an ornament using twisted paper.
Origami - folding of three-dimensional figures from paper.
Isoniti - winding threads on special fasteners or hard cardboard, etc.
New techniques are emerging. With the development of experience and as far as passion for scrapbooking, beginning masters can now invent their own style.
Master class 1: A simple postcard
You can start with the simplest master class "Making a postcard-jacket with your own hands."
This card can be presented to a young man, husband, father on his birthday, on February 23 or another holiday. The cover of the postcard will serve as its face.
For work you will need:
A set of scrapbooking paper.
Buttons.
Glue for paper.
Liquid glue quick-drying.
Cardboard.
Step-by-step instruction:
Print out the template and paste it on thick paper.
Cut out the details along the contour and paste on the substrate (cardboard).
Decorate with buttons (glue them to paper with quick-drying glue).
Master class 2: openwork card
To create an interesting postcard you will need:
Figured frames.
Vignettes.
The inscription for the postcard in the oval.
The basis for a postcard.
Flat beads.
Glue.
Double sided tape.
Step-by-step instruction:
Lay out all the parts on the rug.
Glue the frames from two sides to the adhesive tape double-sided.
Glue the vignette in the center.
Glue the inscription on top.
Decorate the card with beads to your liking.
Master class 3: postcard "With the Newborn!"
Will be required for work:
Cardboard for the postcard.
Colored paper.
Cardboard for decoration.
Glue, pencil and ruler.
Puncher, ribbon.
Step-by-step instruction:
We choose the color of the cardboard on the basis of the sex of the newborn - it will be the cover. Then we add the base in half.
Cut out three circles (we form our body-maker). From the sleeves to the notches under the feet we draw a slanting line and cut it out.
We form and glue the cuffs.
We cut out the buttons with a puncher, glue them. We paste the ribbon on the front cover of the postcard.
To decorate the substrate, you can use stamps. That's all, a beautiful and simple postcard is ready! Do not be afraid to create, fantasize, invent new products, work in your own style! And everything will come out for sure!
Video lessons for beginners: scrapbooking technique
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