Scrapbooking!

by Dr. Betty Middleton Rowan Public Library

If you are a scrapbooker you have something in common with Thomas Jefferson,

Mark Twain  and President Rutherford B. Hayes.  Scrapbooks!  Mark Twain reserved

Sundays for scrapbooking and in 1872 patented an adhesive scrapbook with prepasted

pages.

Scrapbooking has been around for centuries. They were called friendship albums,

common-place books or memory books. Statistics indicate that scrapbooking is the

fastest growing sector of the craft and hobby industry today.  Many contribute the passion

for scrapbooking to the renewed interest in genealogy, while others find it a good way to

save and display their photographs.

What a great way to preserve your precious memories.  “The Ultimate Book of

Memory Albums” published by Leisure Arts and “The Creative Memories way: creating

keepsake albums and building your family legacy” by Cheryl Lightle, Rhonda Anderson

and Shari MacDonald will get you started from how to organize your material to the

types of paper to use.

Ideas for those fantastic vacations can be found in “Scrapbooking your vacations:

200 page design” by Susan Ure, or “Travel scrapbooks: creating albums of your trips and

adventures: by Memory Makers Books.  These publication include creative uses for

memorabilia including passports, coins, brochures, maps, and more.

“Scrapbooking baby’s cherished moments” by Rebecca Carter and “Memory

makers school days scrapbooks” by Memory Makers Books provide a wide variety of

ideas to help you capture those fleeting moments in time.

With the digital age upon us, more and more people are creating their scrapbooks

using scanners to reproduce the photographs, and desktop publishing programs to create

professional-looking layouts. If that is you, then check you will find an exciting range of

creative possibilities found in Maria Given Nerius’s book “Digital scrapbooking: using

your computer to create exciting scrapbook pages”.

Many more titles on this subject are available at your library.  Come by soon.