We learn scrapbooking. Ideas for inspiration for beginners

One of the directions of hand-maid is scrapbooking. Ideas for inspiration beginners master from the masterpieces of already experienced creators. But most of them still give them a fantasy.

What is scrapbooking?

If you try to define this kind of handmade creativity, then the name itself can be translated as a "book of scrapbooks". And originally the products in this technique were just more like collages of pictures, photographs and drawings. The word "scrapbook" itself translates as "an album for storing scrapbooks".

Later this form of creativity changed somewhat. The only thing that remains is the idea itself: the creation of objects (usually made of their paper or cardboard), with which you can preserve the history of the family, love, friendship or personal life.

Where is scrapbooking used?

Most often in this style, the artists decorate in a creative way photo albums, booklets, postcards, photo frames, paintings, wall newspapers, boxes for storing small things. You can even make a purse or a purse in the scrapbooking technique. Ideas for inspiration, the creative person will find everywhere!

You can decorate the product brought from tourist trips icons, emblems, stones, dried plants. Then it will be a reminder of spent days 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 include tickets to the cinema or to a theatrical performance, the visit of which is particularly significant, then the event captured in the scrapbooking will remain in memory for a long time.

Directions in scrapbooking

You can create your own masterpiece in this style in various ways. There are such directions in the technique of execution:

• Application;
• Volumetric application;
• Stamping;
• sublimation;
• Vintage;
• Stitching and embroidery;
• Distressing, or vintage;
• Embossing.

It should immediately specify the point that scrapbooking is rarely performed in one particular technique. Most often, for the manufacture of crafts, the master resorts to other options.

However, it is necessary to talk separately about each kind of technique of performing things in the style of scrapbooking. Ideas for inspiration each master will be able to draw from the expert's advice and the photos presented in the article.

Application

It is clear that the application includes gluing photographs, pictures, newspaper and magazine clippings onto cardboard or paper. This is the most common way that novice masters who have just mastered scrapbooking use. Ideas for inspiration for beginners will prompt demobelsky albums, wall newspapers and stands of Soviet times, made by hand.

This technique is suitable for work done in American or European styles, for the products of shebbie chic - air, romantic-elegant, exquisitely-luxurious. Yes, and in the erasure, the so-called "heritage" style, and vintage, or otherwise - distressing, based on aged artifical details, it is very appropriate.

Very often they make photo albums. Often use this technique in other products, where the main style is scrapbooking. Ideas for inspiration for beginners: decorated cards, greeting wall newspapers, posters, panels, boxes and a purse, napkins for bedside tables, frames for photos.

Volumetric application

Can be used as a piece of application envelope. Then the product acquires an additional function: money is put into it as a gift, a letter or tickets to the theater, to a tourist trip and the like.

But sometimes the master uses the application of paper, sticking the parts not completely on the base, but only partially, using the gaskets that secure the middle of the application and the part itself. Then it will rise above the surface, creating a volume.

As a gasket use pieces of thick cardboard or cardboard rings, glued to the rib.

The inscriptions made in the technique of volumetric application look beautiful. The master cuts out the inscription letters not to the end, leaving the bottom part. Then the letters are bent upwards, and under the holes is a paper of contrasting color.

Stamping

Usually, this technique is rarely dominant in the work, but is of secondary importance, coupled with others.

Stamping is the creation of original creative effects with stamps, inks and applicators. To work in this technique, a special device is required. 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 also make wonderful stamps at home to be able to make creative things in the style of scrapbooking.

For beginners, the ideas of stamps can be quite simple: triangles and circles, zigzags and squares, from which it is easy to create a multi-colored ornament. The desired pattern is cut out on the half of the potato so that the printed part protrudes over 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 photo is placed with the colorful side to where it is planned to get the image, and on the reverse side it is wetted with a solvent using a conventional tampon.

And if the drawing you like is not found on paper, but even on the Internet? Then it is easy to transfer it using the technique of sublimation.

The desired image is first reflected in a program for working with images - they are flipped from left to right. Then print it on special paper - for sublimation, thermal transfer, freezing or photographic glossy. Further, the transfer algorithm practically repeats the already described one: apply a pattern and wet with a solvent.

As already mentioned, this technique is used in combination with others, for example, with applique. You can create wonderful things in the style of scrapbooking. Ideas for a photo album include, for example, a book of fairy tales. Illustrated works are transferred to sheets. Then on the fairy-tale landscape a photograph of the baby is placed.

You can tell more to those creative people who love scrapbooking, ideas for inspiration: a photo album with pages where pictures are attached to the background of Martian or lunar landscapes, for sure there's no one else for now! With the help of sublimation, there is the option of creating a variety of background images on pages: exotic landscapes, grandiose events, historical temporary paintings and others.

You can also create a postcard, a booklet, a little book.

Vintage

In another way, this direction is called distressing. Masters very often resort to this method of working on handicrafts in the style of scrapbooking.

Vintage, or distressing, is the artificial aging of pages, scrapbooks, photos. Usually this technique is used to give a special shade to the individual details of which the thing is in the style of scrapbooking.

In addition to the old photos for creating a retropage in this direction, cuttings from old newspapers or magazines are used. If they are not available, they are found on the Internet and printed, and the paper itself is crushed, gives it a yellowish "temporary" tint, tears the edges.

The journal, which is used in vintage, can very well be done manually. Only the text that the master will write should be designed in time frames: using old letters, ornate phrases, Old Russian words. It is also worth taking care of calligraphy. You can write in both letters, and imitate an old typewriter.

Remarkable here are keys and locks with a touch of rust, metal mechanisms from old watches, beads and painted feathers.

Embroidery in scrapbooking

Often, instead of glue, masters use a sewing needle and thread. However, paper products "do not like" contact with the sewing needle. But if this technique is used in part in the work, to attach some details - buttons, bows, bells, brushes and the like, this piece 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.

Stitched from the postcards crafts

If anyone remembers, our grandmothers and great-grandmothers made lovely boxes and caskets from postcards, covering their edges with a sewing seam, and then joining the walls with threads, grabbing the details for this very obtilation. Successfully picking up cards 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 casket, but also a luxurious vase, a stand for a table lamp, a wall-mounted "pocket" for small things.

However, this craft is difficult to attribute to scrapbooking, since it does not have the most important moment - the presence of clippings and photos. Therefore, before you start to sew parts, you need to glue something on them. Only then can this be called a beautiful word "scrapbooking". Ideas for inspiration: the photo of the baby is located on one of the walls of the box, which is cut from a card with a picture of a blossoming flower; The little face of a smiling girl is glued in place of the face of the Snow Maiden; From the porthole of the rocket the boy's face appears. Such crafts can not be called as scrapbooking.

Ideas for decoration in embossing technique

The most interesting direction in scrapbooking is the creation of volumetric convex pictures. For their manufacture, appliqués of grains, seeds, shells, cones and other natural materials are used. Also, masters resort to working with cotton wool and sintepon.

Decoration of crafts pieces of lace, buttons, rhinestones, beads and small beads low, bows is very appropriate in this technique.

Today, the masters are presented with a variety of ideas in the scrapbooking style for inspiration: albums for photos and diary entries, greeting cards, invitations to celebrations, memorable travel booklets and even handbags, purses, wall panels and caskets. Each novice amateur will easily choose the option to his liking. But when doing crafts, of course, he will bring something of his own, making it unique and original.

Freestyle

This is the same free style in which all directions of scrapbooking are combined, including aging, stamps, handwritten text, or a painted headline, embossing.

Today, a creative person does not want to follow blindly the established rules. Therefore, mixing styles and directions in creativity is the most popular way of self-expression.

Master-class for making a cover for a photo album

Wherever the master craftsmen in the style of scrapbooking get ideas for inspiration! The master-class of making a cover for a children's photo album will prove it.

1. So, you should take a cardboard sheet. Subsequently, he will become the cover of the album.
2. You can paste it with paper, for example, pieces of wallpaper or cloth. To make the thing really memorable, it's better to take wallpaper the same as the walls in the nursery and the bedroom or similar. And the tissue is suitable for the diaper.
3. The junction of two colors is hidden under a piece of lace or proshu. They can be glued on the edge or stitched on a typewriter.
4. In the middle of the past, glue or sew a narrow satin ribbon.
5. Around it is possible to attach artificial flowers made of paper, cloth, or a method of quilts.
6. In the middle of the sheet, an oval of white cardboard is pasted. You can cut openings on the edge. And you can sew or fix in another way the satin ribbon gathered from the collar or from lace.
7. On the oval in the middle of the cover is recommended to paste a photo of the baby. But you can just paint the name of the photo album.
   It is very important to invest in a piece of your soul, then it will certainly please other people - this is a long-proven fact.