Scrap Booking: Unique And Personalized Gift Ideas
Scrap Booking: Unique And Personalized Gift Ideas
If you are into arts and crafts and enjoy making unique gifts for your friends and family scrap booking is just the hobby for you. A scrap book is a collection of memories from someone’s life that are put together in a book of remembrance.
Scraps or remnants from a persons past such as photographs, flowers, buttons from political parties, a particular shade of lipstick, concert ticket stubs, postcards, report cards, news paper articles and other such items are placed in the book and kept for years and years.
There are two main types of scrap-book to consider making as gifts:
Traditional Scrap Books
Traditional scrap-books are usually made from paper and are bound using a leather cover like a regular book. Some of the leather covers are very detailed and fairly expensive. However, there are other scrap-book covers that are made from different materials and are less expensive.
You can also create a mini scrap-book using a mini photograph book. These make great gifts for younger children.
If you are creating a traditional scrap-book there are packages that you can purchase from art and craft stores that have mats, buttons, stickers and ribbons to use to accent the pages of your scrap-book .
The hardest part of creating a scrap-book for someone else is getting the personal memories and the scraps that represent those memories.
Digital Scrap Books
Digital scrap books can be made on CDs or DVDs on your home computer or laptop. There are special software package that will make creating a digital scrap-book easy and fun.
You can even make a scrap-book that is editable so that the recipient of the scrap-book can continue to add to the scrap-book for years to come. You will need to give a copy of the scrap booking software that you used to create the scrap-book in order for it to be edited.