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A travel scrapbook page


 I love scrapbooking.

I have many photo albums ready to scrapbook but also I have a scrapbook art book for just scrapbooking fun that isn’t going into a photo album. It’s just a bit of fun. 

So how do you scrapbook? 

Well it’s easy. You can go as minimalistic or as grand as you want. For me, I like three materials that I use nearly every time which is scrapbooking paper, stickers and washi tape. I do have extra materials such as gold tissue and feathers and even rubber stamps and felt pens but the three top materials I try and use every time. This is because it just feels right to me. It’s the materials that I love to use so why not use them? 

So to scrapbook an art book, start with a blank page:


How to plan for your scrapbook page 

I like to set the page at the beginning by getting all my materials that I want to use for the piece of work of art I want to do. I think of a theme and get the materials that I want to use. Noting, that sometimes I select too much and sometimes I select too little. But it’s a starting point and it saves me going back and forth through my draws to get what I need.

So today I am creating a travel theme scrapbook page and this is the materials I selected:

As you can see I have used paper, stickers, washi tape and various amounts of each towards the travel theme.

How to scrapbook 

So scrapbooking is easy because you create the fun you want the page to look. I sometimes layout everything first and other times I just go with it. I tend to start with gluing down the scrapbooking paper first because it tends to be the biggest items used. And then I add stickers and then at the end I outline sections with the washi tape. Here is my final result: 


What do you think of the final result? Please comment below.

To buy scrapbooking materials 

When shopping for scrapbooking materials, it’s important to find the themes in your photos. For example, do you have kids? What do they love? With sites such as AliExpress you can get themed stickers like Pokémon, Harry Potter etc which is cool for kid themed photos. 

If you have a lot of travel photos, travel stickers and travel scrapbooking paper is great to purchase in advance to starting. 

If for example, you have a farm, washi tape in fruits or stickers in flowers and fruits etc could be a good start. 

Where do you find scrapbooking materials?

I tend to find scrapbooking materials from lots of sites such as AliExpress.com (which I am an affiliate for but in this post I am not using an affiliate link). I find junk stores have scrapbooking materials as well. Daiso, the Japanese store has some cool materials. 

I hope you enjoy your scrapbooking journey because honestly it’s the funnest and relaxing hobby you can start. You definitely do not need to be an artist to try it. Have fun!

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