Once you plan to make a Scrapbook you need to collect all the necessary items which will be very useful while making the same. Collecting all the items personally with great care will result in a beautiful Scrapbook which will be admired by everyone who sees that.
The things that you need would be pen or pencil, glue for sticking, protector, scale etc., the main thing that you need is the craft paper. The quality of craft paper that you choose will finally determine the quality of your scrap book. The paper that you choose for this purpose should be lignin free and should not have any dye and should have fast color. One more thing that you should look out for is Photo Activity Test (P.A.T.) paper.
The background of the paper, i.e. the design should be subtle so as to not clash with the design that you are planning on it. You may want to stick some stickers or design some pattern on it. Scrapbook is the memoir of your past, you are making a book which will enhance your past, keeping that in mind select paper.
Choose patterns:
The safest paper to select is the paper with a very general pattern. Normally we get paper with variety to design such as flowers, strips, dots. If you are planning for a variety then it is better to choose general patter paper. For portraying your holiday mood select paper with dots, as this type of design will go very well with festive occasions like Christmas. After paper selection comes the next step of designs. Think and plan out some ideas.
Die cuts:
Use die cut layers to shape your design. You can use punch machine to make some innovative design by making holes or use some scrap to make the border.
Pierce:
Try out piercing the paper, it is an adventurous. To complete the method make many layers like templates matching, trace it, and then cut, and later join all the layers together. Make some letters by using this method. Record dates, location, name and even time along with the mood at the time. Write this with colorful pens. All this make your scrapbook very attractive.
Categories your scrapbook by giving proper index, title page, comments etc. You can stick the photo and for the background can stick matching stickers. As an example, if you have a photograph in which your child is dancing, choose the frame with something matching to the theme.
