Scarp Booking an Exceptional Idea to Store Memories

It is inherent desire within every person to keep his memories kept at a place intact so he can remember them and save himself from being delving into the deep dungeons of nostalgia that sometimes leads one into in depression too. One of the methods of keeping memories is scrapping, where best moments of the life are kept in form of photographs, printed media and memorabilia in a scrapbook.

Though we are known to the modern scrapping in form of digital scrapping and as a paper craft, however, to one’s surprise scrapping is as ancient craft as close to the period of 15th century, when publisher used to provide at the end of the book, space for writing recipes, quotes, letters, poems and more. With advancement of time scrapping kept on changing its face from friendship albums, colour plates to modern scrapping.

The advent of modern photography and quality printing paper made scrap booking art of a common man. Mass production and distribution of Kodak brownie led the inclusion of photographs into scrap books. Soon creative exhibition of photos, text journaling and memorabilia become a vogue in place of traditional scrapping.

Modern scrapping includes background papers, photo corner mounts, photo mounting tape, scissors, paper trimmer, art pens, and archival pens. For a beginner, he should be aware of various aspects of scrapping like papers and tools used in scrapping. One can start from special paper, reprocessed ones, colored papers and art papers. Scissors and cutting boards are other important tools that are used in scrapping to bring out a desired creative result. And where you would going to keep all your papers and tool in order, is scrap box that is folded paneled furniture in various design and patterns.