Scrapbooking ideas for your scrapbooking hobby could be developed from understanding that everything you already have in your house can be managed, collected, arranged in particular scrapbook theme.

As an example : you have collection of football sport pictures from famous players to favourite teams around the world or maybe just from your country, because you love that things like crazy. If those pictures has been printed in photo papers media, then you may scrapbooking them in an album. Try attach and put some embellishment like: stamps, patterns, or stickers. Put some text or poems or some journalling to the album. Voilla you just created a scrapbook. Not hard isn’t it. You just have to be patient and be creative, use your imagination.

So let’s try to list the materials or tools needed to make a scrapbook

a. Materials for manual or traditional scrapbooking

1. Album

Album is the place or media to attach or paste photos, embellishment, or other things to scrapbook on. You can buy this in scrapbooks store or scrapbooks supplies and choose which one you like from many different types of color, price, material, motif and theme.  Choose good quality album thus it will durable and long lasting. It’s all up to your need and financial condition.

2. Scissor

This tool are a must to cutout papers and forming patterns. You must have a sharp scissor so that you could cutout a paper or photopaper quickly and tidy. Remember, dull scissor will make your work to cut anything much longer and dowdy on result.

3. Glue

This is materials needed to glue/attach photo papers, pattern to your album. Choose the good one.

4. Writing tools

Whenever you want to create a writing to your scrapbook manually by hands like: poems, text, journalling, etc. You need pencil, marker, ruler, etc.

5. Drawing tools

Whenever you want to create a drawing to your scrapbook, you need watermark, crayon, paint, etc.

6. Embellishment

These are need to dress your scrapbooks more beatifull and colorfull. You need stickers, patterns, and stamps.

7. Things to scrapbook

This is the main core. This is the stuff that you want to scrapbooking on album. These are collection of : photos, letters, poems, cards, etc.

b. Materials needed for digital scrapbooking

1. Album

2. Scissor

3. Glue

4. Photo papers

This is needed to print photo’s files from your computer through machine. Use acid free photo paper. So that it will endurance for long time and will not pale or faded.

5. Computer

Good spesification computer is needed to make/create design of your scrapbook’s page that you wish through well software.

6. Scrapbooking software or image editing software

This is the main player in digital scrapbooking, because this is the tool to design your scrapbook. Put a pattern, pictures, backgrounds in your photo’s image or use available template.

7. Photo Printing machine

Good quality photo printer is needed so that your gain contrast photos. Cause it quite expensive, you could print those design page to photo printing shop.

8. Scanner.

If you have an old pictures, potraits, letter, writings, etc, you need a scanner to scan those and processing in computer, then printing to become page of your book.

9. Camera digital

Maybe you need this stuff if you not prefer to scanner. Snap or took a pictures of your collection, pets,etc.

10. Photo’s files

If you already have files collection. You can design in software and print. Thus become a scrapbook.

You must take a consideration beetwen desire, orientation, need, and budget to these tools.

These’re all materials needed when you want to making a scrapbooks.