One of the areas of hand-made is scrapbooking. Beginning masters draw ideas for inspiration from the masterpieces of already experienced creators. But most of them are still prompted by fantasy.
What is scrapbooking?
If you try to define this type of handicraft, then the name itself can be translated as "book of clippings." And initially the products in this technique were just more like collages from pictures, photographs and drawings. The word scrapbook itself translates to scrapbook.
Later, this type of creativity was somewhat modified. Only the idea remained basic: the creation of objects (usually made of paper or cardboard), with which you can save the story of family, love, friendship or personal life.
Where is scrapbooking used?
Most often, in this style, masters creatively create photo albums, booklets, postcards, photo frames, paintings, wall newspapers, boxes for storing little things. You can even make a purse or purse using the scrapbooking technique. A creative person will find ideas for inspiration everywhere!
You can decorate the product with badges, emblems, pebbles, dried plants brought from tourist trips. Then it will become a reminder of the days spent away from the place where a person was born and lived most of his life. And if in the design of the page in the photo album you include tickets to the cinema or to a theatrical performance, the visit of which is especially significant, the event captured in scrapbooking will remain in your memory for a long time.
Scrapbooking destinations
You can create a masterpiece in this style with your own hands in various ways. There are such areas in the performance technique:
- application;
- volume application;
- stamping;
- sublimation;
- vintage
- stitching and embroidery;
- distress, or vintage;
- embossing.
It should immediately be noted that scrapbooking is rarely performed in one particular technique. Most often, the master resorts to other options for making crafts.
However, you should talk separately about each type of scrapbooking technique. Each master will be able to draw ideas for inspiration from expert advice and photos presented in the article.
Applique
It is clear that the application includes gluing photographs, pictures, newspaper and magazine clippings onto cardboard or paper. This is the most common method used by novice masters who have just mastered scrapbooking. Handmade ideas for demobilization albums, wall newspapers, and Soviet-made stands for inspirational ideas for beginners.
This technique is suitable for work done in American or European styles, for shabby chic products - airy, romantically elegant, exquisitely luxurious. Yes, and in the heritage, the so-called “heritage” style, and vintage, or otherwise - distress, based on artificially aged details, it is very appropriate.
Very often make out photo album applications. Often use this technique in other products, where the main style is scrapbooking. Ideas for inspiration for beginners: postcards decorated with applications, greeting wall newspapers, posters, panels, boxes and wallets, napkins for nightstands, photo frames.
Volumetric application
You can use an envelope as a part of the appliqué. Then the product acquires an additional function: they put money into it as a gift, a letter or tickets to the theater, on a camping trip and the like.
But sometimes the master uses an application of paper, gluing parts not completely on the base, but only partially, using gaskets that hold the middle of the application and the part itself. Then it will rise above the surface, creating volume.
As a gasket, pieces of thick cardboard or cardboard rings glued to the edge are used.
The inscriptions made in the technique of volume application look beautiful. The wizard does not cut out the letters of the inscription, leaving the bottom part. Then the letters are folded up, and contrast paper is laid down under the holes.
Stamping
Usually this technique is rarely dominant in work, but it is secondary, coupled with others.
Stamping is the creation of original creative effects using stamps, inks and applicators. To work in this technique requires a special device. It is called a stamp, or seal.
This device is most often purchased in stores or made to order in special workshops. But you can make wonderful stamps yourself at home in order to be able to make a creative little thing in scrapbooking style.
For beginners, the ideas of stamps can be quite simple: triangles and circles, zigzags and squares, from which it is easy to create a colorful ornament. The desired pattern is cut out on the half of the potato so that the printed part protrudes above the rest of the surface. Unfortunately, such a stamp is short-lived - the potato dries, losing its elasticity and shape.
Sublimation
This technique is very close to stamping. It is based on the fact that the master transfers drawings to the product from printed materials - newspapers and magazines. To do this, the selected picture or photograph is applied with the colorful side to where it is planned to receive the image, and on the reverse side they are moistened with solvent using a conventional swab.
And if the drawing you like is not found on the paper, but even on the Internet? Then transfer it easily using the sublimation technique.
The desired picture is first mirrored in some image manipulation program - flipped from left to right. Then print it on special paper - for sublimation, thermal transfer, freezer or photographic glossy. Further, the transfer algorithm practically repeats what has already been described: impose a pattern and moisten with a solvent.
As already mentioned, this technique is used in combination with others, for example, with applications. You can create wonderful things in scrapbooking style. Ideas for a photo album include, for example, a book of fairy tales. On the sheets carry illustrations of the necessary works. Then on a fabulous landscape place a photograph of the baby.
You can also tell those creative people who love scrapbooking ideas for inspiration: for sure no one has a photo album with pages where the pictures are attached to the background of Martian or lunar landscapes! With the help of sublimation, there is the option of creating a variety of background images on the pages: exotic landscapes, grandiose events, historical temporary paintings and others.
You can also create a postcard, booklet, baby book.
Vintage
In another way, this direction is called distressing. Masters very often resort to this method of working on crafts in scrapbooking style.
Vintage, or distress, is the artificial aging of pages, clippings, photographs. Typically, this technique is used to give a special touch to the individual details that make up the scrapbooking item.
In addition to aged photos, clippings from old newspapers or magazines are used to create a retro page in this direction. If there are none, they are found on the Internet and printed out, and the paper itself is wrinkled, giving it a yellowish “temporary” hue, tearing the edges.
Logging, which is used in vintage, can very well be done manually. Only the text that the master will write must be sustained in time: using ancient letters, ornate phrases, Old Russian words. Calligraphy is also worth taking care of. You can write both in written letters and imitate an old typewriter.
Keys and locks with a touch of rust look wonderful here, metal mechanisms from old watches, beads and colored feathers.
Embroidery scrapbooking
Often, instead of glue, craftsmen use a sewing needle and thread. However, paper products “do not like” touching a sewing needle. But if this technique is partially used in the work, for attaching some details - buttons, bows, bells, tassels and the like, then this craft looks luxurious and unusual.
Sometimes masters use embroidery in products made in the style of scrapbooking. Ideas for inspiration - postcards from cardboard, which depict embroidered hearts, insects, fruits.
Crafts made from postcards
If anyone remembers, then our grandmothers and great-grandmothers made lovely boxes and boxes from postcards, sheathed their edges with a sewing seam, and then connecting the walls with threads, grabbing the details for this same basting. Having successfully selected postcards on the subject, you can create a real masterpiece in the style of scrapbooking. Ideas for inspiration, as already mentioned, can be drawn from the past. And to create in this technique not only a box, but also a luxurious vase, a stand for a table lamp, a wall "pocket" for small things.
However, this craft will be difficult to attribute to scrapbooking, as it does not have the most important point - the presence of clippings and photos. Therefore, you need to stick something on them before you start stitching the parts. Only then can it be called the beautiful word “scrapbooking”. Ideas for inspiration: the baby’s photo is located on one of the walls of the box, which is cut from a card with a picture of a blossoming flower; the face of a smiling girl is glued instead of the face of the Snow Maiden; the physiognomy of a little boy peeps out of the porthole of a rocket. Such crafts can not be called otherwise than scrapbooking.
Embossing Design Ideas
The most interesting direction in scrapbooking is the creation of voluminous convex paintings. For their manufacture using an application of grains, seeds, shells, cones and other natural materials. Also, masters resort to working with cotton and sintepon.
Decorating crafts with pieces of lace, buttons, rhinestones, beads and small low beads, bows is very appropriate in this technique.
Today, the masters presented the most diverse ideas for scrapbooking in the style of inspiration: albums for photographs and diary entries, greeting cards, invitations to holiday events, travel memorabilia and even purses, wallets, wall panels and caskets. Each novice amateur will easily choose an option to their liking. But when doing the crafts, of course, he will bring something of his own, making it unique and original.
Freestyle
This is the very free style in which all areas of scrapbooking are combined, including aging, stamps, hand-written intricate text or a painted heading, embossing.
Today, a creative person does not want to blindly follow the established rules. Therefore, a mixture of styles and trends in creativity is the most popular way of self-expression.
Master class for making a cover for a photo album
Wherever scrapbooking artists get ideas for inspiration! A master class for making covers for a children's photo album will be proof of this.
- So, you should take a cardboard sheet. Subsequently, it will become the cover of the album.
- You can paste over it with paper, such as pieces of wallpaper or cloth. To make the thing really memorable, it’s better to take the same wallpaper as the walls in the nursery and bedroom or similar were glued. A cloth fit diaper.
- The junction of the two colors is hidden under a piece of lace or stitching. They can be glued around the edge or stitched on a typewriter.
- In the middle of the seam, a narrow satin ribbon is glued or sewn.
- Around you can attach artificial flowers made of paper, fabric or quilted tags.
- An oval of white cardboard is glued in the middle of the sheet. You can cut openwork holes along the edge. And you can sew or fix in another way a satin ribbon collected from a frill or from lace.
- It is recommended to stick a photo of the baby on the oval in the middle of the cover. But you can simply colorfully design the name of the photo album.
It is very important to invest a piece of your soul in your product, then it will surely please other people - this is a long-proven fact.