You're here most likely because you have seen someone elses scrapbook, you have heard about scrapbooking and/or you wish to make a scrapbook for the first time and have no clue where to begin.

You've probably seen other Scrapbooking Sites - before coming here. You may have even been in a few craft or Scrapbooking stores. But you probably experienced a bit of overwhelm.

Am I correct?

Don't worry, you are not alone. Everyone getting started with Scrapbooking experiences the same thing. There are too many choices and no real directions to begin a scrapbook.

(Maybe its card making you want too?).

Either way...your experience is valid. The craft stores offer isles and isles of scrapbooking supplies and tools. They even offer scrapbooking magazines and books. But when you browse through them - you find out pretty quickly one of the following:

1. Very few of the instructions are meant for beginners.

2. Most of the instructions are project based only - therefore you have no clue when you will ever use those same supplies again or how.

3. And almost everything demands a purchase of some sort - (whether it's scrapbooking tools or scrapbooking supplies (like paper, stickers, embellishments, ribbons etc.).

What many of the educators out there forget is that people like to learn what their upfront costs will be, what their ongoing costs will be, how they can spread those costs out (on future projects) and what the payback is (if any). PLUS...beginners appreciate easy Step by Step instructions.

You might find the step by step instructions - but if you don't have the supplies they ask you to have what good are those instructions?

You need simple beginner scrapbooking instructions - that you can use with any supplies and on any project.

So...I am here to fill you in on these most pressing concerns...and tell you the real deal!

First...your upfront costs.

Before you even think of spending money on Scrapbooking Supplies - you should get a feel for the craft. And the great news is; it does not have to cost a thing to make a scrapbook page in the beginning. You probably have all the supplies you need at home.

No - what you have right now might not be acid free or archival (for long term preservation). But that's okay!

I know for a fact that I have made cards and scrapbook pages out of paper bags, construction paper and elmers glue that have yet to fade or fall apart. (Granted...they look a little less professional - but I was not aiming for professional - I was aiming to learn scrapbooking).

If you have paper, construction paper, paper bags, tissue paper, scissors, glue, ribbon, buttons, pens and such lying around the house somewhere...then you are good to go.

You don't need to purchase supplies for your first scrapbook!

Second...your ongoing costs.

If you want to advance a little beyond beginner scrapbooking and wish to keep going with the craft after you have made your first few pages with the supplies you already have in your home, then you will have to make room for a few more expenses.

The good news is...you can save money with scrapbooking supplies.

From scrapbook papers, to cardstock, adhesives, ribbons and more - you can gain tremendous savings by purchasing in bulk - which is the best suggestion up front. But you can also save money by signing up for special discounts, coupons and more with online scrapbook sites. PLUS taking advantage of in house coupons at your craft / scrapbook stores.

You do not need a "monthly budget" to scrapbook!

As long as you set a goal to rarely ever buy supplies without discounts...then you can be sure that you are always benefiting.

For example, when you shop for Scrapbooking Supplies at Costco you can look to spend the following:

• $10.00-$50.00 on scrapbook albums (in many cases 1 , 2 or 3 per pack)
• $12.00-$20.00 on patterned paper slabs
• Upto $25.00 on scissors, shearers, cutting boards + shape cutters
• Upto $20.00 on scrapbooking stickers / pens / stamp sets etc

All of which will be useful for months if not years of scrapbooking or card making. (Therefore investments like these will offer long term value to you).

Then you have supplies like adhesives (which you can purchase in refillable format for under $10.00), ribbons (by the roll or the yard for approx. $5.00 each or upto $20.00 in multipacks) and pens ($5.00 - $20.00 in multipacks) that when bought in "economy" size will be of value to you for a long time period.

HINT: Micheals Craft Store often releases coupons for 40%-50% off purchases which is a phenominal savings when you are considering tools like Die Cutting or Dry Embossing Machines or other "industrial" style tools.

So all in all....you can benefit from savings all over the place AND all while utilizing the same scrapbooking supplies / tools over and over again.

Your scrapbooking investments will always bring you
long term value!

Keep in mind however that ONE common thread among scrapbookers is the need for something specific for each new project. These would be items like (specilized (in theme, pattern, color etc) paper, ribbon, embellishments and pen colors etc).

• Patterned Scrapbook Paper Sheets will cost $0.25 - $1.50/piece.
• Specialised Ribbon can cost $0.50-$2.50/yard
• Colored pens can cost $0.99-$2.99 each
• Specialized Accents and Embellishments can cost $2.00-$10.00/item or package.

Etc.

So if you spend a lot of time doing one off projects, you might be expecting to spend from $4.00 - $17.00 extra per project. PLUS the cost of the album itself.

But it should be unlikely that you would will do this often anyhow.

Now for the step by step scrapbooking instructions...

Beginner Scrapbooking should be simple. But you can still make your page a complete masterpiece if you are guided well through those steps. Keep in mind however that there are a few elements to every scrapbook page that make a world of difference in how it presents.

1. The title.
2. The photo(s).
3. The matting
4. The accents (embellishments)
5. The journaling (story you wish to share)
6. The overall message (consistency is really the key here).

This is where you need to exercise some creativity and skill. Possibly even some technique. However - these traits will develop over time. They don't have to be present right from the start.

Here are the traditional steps to make a scrapbook.

1. Chose your focus. (Who, what, where or when) .
2. Determine the theme (it is pattern based, color based, nature based, artistic, contemporary, baby, wedding, romance, school, heritage etc).
3. Pick an album that best suits this theme
4. Collect all the photo's you wish to use.
5. Gather the corresponding card stock, papers, pens, ribbons, embellishments and such.
6. And start planning your layouts.

This is the planning phase.

Because you will have already determined your layout(s) in phase one...you can start playing with the papers and photo's that will fill them in. It's always good to do this BEFORE committing them to paper with adhesives or stitching as you may ruin your supplies if you try to undo something already glued down.

Once that is done...you can finally enter the commitment phase. In this phase you will be committing your supplies to paper. You will need scissors, exacto's, trimmers, shape cutters, rulers, cutting boards, adhesives and the like. (What you need will be up to you - and based on how perfect or complex you will want to make the contents on your page).

And that's it!

You can now make your first scrapbook page in 6 easy steps! 

You've seen the masterpieces that everyone else has done - and you deserve to learn how you can enjoy the rewards of making one yourself. Well...

You are about to discover a little more about how this highly therapeutic and extremely rewarding hobby will help you make a scrapbook that says everything you ever wanted to say but couldn't find the words for!

There is more to Scrapbooking than 6 simple steps.....
With what I am about about to teach you, you will be able to complete your first Scrapbook "Album" not just a page and it will be a masterpiece!

Your Scrapbook Pages will be your own Masterpieces and the pride you will feel from doing them will be unlike any other pride you have EVER experienced!

After you finish reading through this webpage, you will be stunned at what you can do with Scrapbooking!!! (And when I use the word Scrapbooking, I am also talking about Card Making and Party Invitation Making and similar Paper Crafts).

Through this web site, you will learn that:

• Scrapbooking is NOT hard. Honestly. You were taught in school many of the essential skills you need to create a scrapbook.

• Scrapbooking does not require outrageously unique or expensive tools. Yes. The better the tools - the better the outcome, but when you are first starting out - you can save a little money by using standard tools (like scissors, rulers, exacto's or even just a computer etc)!

• Scrapbooking does not require outrageously unique or expensive supplies. Again, you can use many of the products you already have in your own home for your first pages; then when you are ready you can move up to the more "professional" supplies or create your own for minimal dollars.

• Scrapbooking does not require you to be a creative genius. Afterall - at a basic level, making a scrapbook is very much like framing a photo (but it looks way cooler!).

• Scrapbooking does not require you to be photographic wizzard. I have made gorgeous scrapbook pages out of the blurriest and smallest photo's ever!

• Scrapbooking does not even require you to think. Some of the best pages can come from complete stillness of the mind (that's why it's so therapeutic).

Scrapbooking is probably one of the most forgiving - yet rewarding hobbies you could choose. You do not need to worry about doing it right! Scrapbooking lends itself superbly to mistakes. I will show you how! In fact, some of the best scrapbook masterpieces resulted from mistakes!

All you need is the desire to learn how to scrapbook and the willingness to spend the time doing it.

Scrapbooking is easy. I will "guarantee that" here and now. You risk nothing but your time in getting started with scrapbooking through me.

My first dabble in Scrapbooking was Collaging. I plastered my high school agenda and photo albums with magazine cutouts. Then I saw someone make a powder embossed birthday card at work. It was so stunning. I could barely believe that it was hand made. It definitely caught my attention - and I wanted to learn more about it.

My mistake however, was going to the craft stores first. I bought hundreds of dollars of supplies and even a book to get started. Then I made about 5 cards - that didn't look anything like the one I saw at work NOR did it look like the ones I saw in the magazines.

Although I still loved what I created and felt very proud of my work. I did feel a little embarrassed that I spent so much money and it went no where.

So I decided to take some classes and buy more books to go further with my new hobby. At the same time, I also got wind of Scrapbooking. And I thought - wow, all those supplies I bought for cards can be used on scrapbooks too! YAY! But after all of the expenses and time I spent reading the scrapbooking instructions in the magazines, I realized those were not instructions on scrapbooking for beginners!

I was getting upset.... 

So...I started back tracking and gathering the card making and scrapbooking directions that were easy to follow. I made a scrapbook of them - in what I believed to be some sort of chronological order. I shared it with my friends and family members and I got great feedback on it.

All of us were card making and scrapbooking experts in no time!

Then came Scrapbooking Photo's in Frames, Scrapbooking Tags, Scrapbooking, Tins and making Mini Scrapbook Albums.

So here I am today. Sharing my 20 years of experience with you.

• It doesn't matter if you don't even know what scrapbooking is. I will teach you!

• It doesn't matter if you have NO IDEA where to begin scrapbooking. I will teach you!

• It doesn't matter if you don't think you are creative enough. I will teach you how to borrow creativity!

• You won't have to make the expensive mistakes that I did!

• You won't have to take classes that are not geared for beginner scrapbooking!

• You don't even need to buy magazines, books or project sheets - I will walk you through it all!

Best of all, you don't have to wade through millions of websites looking for scrapbooking directions for beginners! I will take you by the hand from chosing your tools, your supplies, your scrapbook album and even to embellishing your pages!

1. I will show you were to begin - so that you do NOT start down the path of the highest expense!

2. I will give you simple step by step instructions for each element of your scrapbook

3. I will give you teach you how you can bring out the best in EVERY photo, EVERY PAGE and EVERY JOURNAL ENTRY or TITLE you put into your scrapbook

4. And I will even show you how to create a matching card to top it all off!

I will even show you how your new skills and your new creativity can be used everywhere in life! Scrapbooking has tremendous value in so many aspects of life.

When you learn to learn to scrapbook, you learn a new appreciation for the world and the people around you. You learn how to notice the little things in life. You will learn to see beauty that you would have never seen before.

Because of Scrapbooking you will want to:

• Take more time for yourself!

• Take more time for your family!

• Take more time for nature!

• Take more time for adventure!

• Take more time for memories!

• Take more photos!

• Capture more of life!

• Preserve more of life!

• LOVE MORE of LIFE!

We forget to do this in our busy world! We forget that life is beautiful! Even if it doesn't always look that way or feel that way.

Scrapbooking really does bring out the WOW! in the lives we live. Don't you want more WOW in your life?

Sure, you may only wish to create one scrapbook for one person and never touch scrapbooking again. That's fine. I can show you that too. And it still doesn't have to cost you more than $20.00 USD and it will WOW that person!

...but, regardless of your reason for wanting to learn how to scrapbook, you should learn how to make it work for you first (within your budget, within your available time and within your own comfort towards creativity).

I want you to scrapbook faster and MUCH easier than I did when I first learned - so that you CAN make a scrapbook now (when you desire it most) and enjoy the rewards of completing it!

1. Chose your focus. (Who, what, where or when) .
2. Determine the theme (it is pattern based, color based, nature based, artistic, contemporary, baby, wedding, romance, school, heritage etc).
3. Pick an album that best suits this theme
4. Collect all the photo's you wish to use.
5. Gather the corresponding card stock, papers, pens, ribbons, embellishments and such.
6. And start planning your layouts.

But, I also said - there is always more.  These 6 steps to scrapbooking may not lead you to a masterpiece. Whether you need more - or simply just want more now...I do encourage you to consider the educational resources I have put together for scrapbooking beginners.

1. Visit my Scrapbooking Products page
   (to learn more about each of these products)

2. Follow the instructions to get your own copies

3. and then  download these Scrapbooking Products today

 

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