Anybody who wishes to start scrapbooking may find the first page to be a bit of a challenge that may seem somewhat daunting at first and choosing an album and putting together supplies as well as getting all the photos together are just the tip of the iceberg that is called scrapbooking. Scrapbooking can also be a hobby that would help to preserve the most treasured moments in life for posterity and there are eight essential steps that a beginner should know about.

If you want to pass down your love for paper crafting to your kids, you might not find them as interested in scrapbooking from the start.Then, one should select a few colors of acid-free paper or cardstock that should complement the photos.Once that gets done, then pick one photo which will be the focus of the page and if required, the photo may be cropped. This should be followed by selecting photos to mat which is a good way of highlighting the main focus of the photo and then add some journaling. One may also add extras such as stickers and embellishments and then, finally arrange all the items to the pages and adhere.

You can use your paper dividers to hold cut outs of jeweler templates or designs that caught your fancy in a magazine.In any case, you would need an album, refill pages for the album, a pair of nice sharp scissors, some adhesive, cardstock and printed papers and also some journal pens.

Make use of the many drawers and nooks to organize some other art you are interested in like jewelry making for instance. Three important aspects of good journaling include writing from the heart, using a poem or quote and sparingly using fonts.

Help them use the supplies and make frames, hand made gifts for grandparents, door knob hangers and the like.One may also like to share the scrapbook with other scrapbookers as this is one way of finding inspiration and creating even better scrapbooks.