Scrapbooking Craft
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Martha Stewart Crafts Monarch Butterfly Edge Punch Around the Page Punch Sale Price: $9.99  |
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Monarch Butterfly Edge Punch Around the Page. Use this edge punch with the matching corner punch (sold separately) to achieve on continuous design around all four sides of a craft project. This edge punch can also be used alone to create a design along an edge... |
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Martha Stewart Crafts Fringe Scissors Sale Price: $6.64 |
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Fringe Scissors. Use these unique scissors to add a fringe border to cards and scrapbook pages. Also great for making confetti and shredding paper. |
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Henkel IT20904 Duck 1/2-by-450-Inch Double Stick Permanent Tape Sale Price: $2.23 |
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The Henkel Duck double-stick permanent tape applies easily with its included, disposable dispenser, which removes the tape's protective liner to expose the adhesive on the opposite side. The double-sided tape is ideal for crafts which require neat, polished, precise finish, such as photo mounting, scrapbooking, and even gift wrapping... |
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Martha Stewart Edger Threader Sale Price: $9.18 |
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Martha Stewart Threader Edge Punch. This handy tool creates a continuous series of slots for threading ribbon. Now it's easy to get neat, evenly spaced slots for ribbon-embroidered borders for cards and scrapbook pages... |
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Ek Success EKCKR01 Cutter Bee Retractable Knife and Blades Sale Price: $7.10 |
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The lightweight Retractable Knife features a comfort grip handle, hands free blade replacement and retracting blade which is ideal for travel and storage. This safety conscious knife offers replacement blades in a cartridge that stores used blades and allows for no touch blade replacement... |
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Martha Stewart Edger Scallop Dot Sale Price: $6.99 |
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Martha Stewart Scallop Dot Edge Punch. Use this edge punch to create a beautiful die-cut scalloped border for decorating cards, photo mats, scrapbook pages, and other paper crafts. The alignment guide printed on the tool helps you create a seamless, continuous pattern. |
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Scoring Score Board and Envelope Tool Martha Stewart Crafts EK Success Sale Price: $13.64 |
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Scoring Board. Score flawless, crisp lines on invitations, envelopes, gift boxes, and other projects with this handy tool. You will be amazed at your flawless, crisp lines you created in seconds. Create invitations, envelopes, gift boxes, and more... |
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Martha Stewart Crafts Large Circle Cutter Sale Price: $16.52 |
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Cuts perfect circle from 4 inches to 12 inches in diameter at .18-inch increments. Double sided blade allows both clockwise and counter clockwise cutting. When not in use, blade docks safely in base of the handle... |
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Martha Stewart Craft Knife Sale Price: $8.30 |
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Martha Stewart Craft Knife. Designed for comfort and stability, our soft-grip craft knife lets you cut, crop, and shape a variety of materials. The beveled tip accommodates your fingers for maximum precision and a steady cut. |
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KandCompany Best of Brenda Walton Paper Pad, 12-Inch by 12-Inch, 150-Piece Sale Price: $13.80 |
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This Best of Brenda Walton Designer Paper Pad bundles some of Brenda's most popular collections all in one pad. Includes 360 sheets of beautiful Brenda Walton patterns. Acid and lignin free. |
Beginning scrapbookers (or scrappers) face a challenge at first. It takes creativity and good organization skills to make a top-notch scrapbook. Scrappers need experience in layout, design, and using the materials. Coming up with the appropriate scrapbook theme can be a difficult task for novice scrappers. And constructing a great scrapbook requires the right tools.
4 Scrapbooking Tools - Reasons You Need Them To Make A Scrapbook
You can start scrapbooking with a very basic set of tools, listed here, and build from there. Scrapbooking tools serve a variety of purposes, from simple preparation of your photos and keepsakes to tools to help you create interesting decorations and embellishments. Many tools will come from your desk drawer or toolchest. But you'll want to check out your scrapbooking supply store for the items designed specifically for scrapbooking.
1. Scissors. Don't laugh. It may seem obvious, but scissors are a basic scrapbooking tool. They help bring order to your photos and mementos, and they allow creativity while you construct form and line. You use scissors for more than cropping your photos. One part of scrapbooking is cutting paper, foam, and fabric into shapes to complement and highlight your keepsakes. Scissors are basic to the scrapper. There are two types of scissors common to scrapbooking:
- Traditional paper-cutting. Normal scissors that you use every day are useful for cutting straight lines and cropping photos. It's important to use sharp scissors for this purpose so that your cuts will be clean and neat. You don't want to damage your materials before you even get them in the book.
- Crafting. These scissors are available at art supply stores and shops. They come in distinctive shapes for different cut types. Curves, zig-zags, and waves are three common shapes used for cutting scrapbook paper and embellishments. They add zest to your pages.
2. Hole Punches. You can find single-hold punches to create confetti-like decorations or to make holes for attaching ribbons, yarn, or thread and tying things to your pages. As with scissors, there are two types of punch available to scrappers, and you probably need both. Conventional punches make round holes. More unconventional punches create shaped holes. Five-point punches create snowflakes, flowers, and asterisks. You can find scrapbooking punches that create daisies, stars, hearts, footprints, leaves, spirals, tiger paw prints, butterflies, other insects, and even a Mickey Mouse shape. They range in size from 1/2 inch to almost 2 inches, so you can create a variety of interesting shapes to add to your scrapbook's appeal. You'll probably want to get several different hole punches for this purpose.
3. Tweezers. Tweezers help handle small items and glue without making a mess or smudging your photos and pages. Easy to find and inexpensive, tweezers are a must!
4. Toolkit Choices. Scrappers use a variety of tools to add texture and excitement to their pages. You don't need to get all of them right away, but you may want to consider some of these useful scrapbooking tools for your toolkit:
- paper trimmer, foam or rubber stamps, craft knife, eyelet setter, ruler, glue pen, cutting mat, tag maker, wire cutter, foam brushes, specialty glues, colored staples, glitter pens, bone folder, craft hammer, tracing stylus, acid-free pens, metallic sheets, embossing stylus, paper crimpers, rotary disc cutter, sewing needles and thread, ribbon irons and crimpers, and a scoring tool
5. Computer. Well, it's not exactly a tool you can run into the scrapbooking store to pick up on a moment's notice. But a computer can be a valuable tool for scrapbooking. You can use it to research your theme and add information about specific photos and keepsakes. You can also find many great ideas, images, templates, and accessories for your scrapbook by searching scrapbooking websites. And if you really want to apply your computer skills to scrapbooking, try making a virtual scrapbook and post your creative work on the Internet. You could build your own personal scrapbook website!
Scrapbooking is a fun hobby that produces beautiful family heirlooms to pass down through generations. Investing the time and energy to create your own scrapbook allows you to memorialize an event, a person, or an important part of life. It also allows you to be as creative as you can be in assembling and coordinating materials, colors, shapes, and images into a cohesive, thematically-based whole that tells your story.
To create a great scrapbook, you'll need these tools and more. But the tools described here will get you off to a super start! So go have fun! Start scrapping!
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What is a good craft to start as a hobbie?
I want a CRAFT. Something I can sit down and do. No SCRAPBOOKING OR COLLECTING
For the craft you name can you give me a good reference if there is one. preferably on the internet. can you give me the link too.
THANKS SO MUCH
KISSIES.
I have many hobbies, but the ones that are good to sit down and do are Knitting, Crocheting, Beading and Polymer Clay. None of them are particularly expensive to start with, though polymer clay usually requires you get a pasta machine to use with the clay that will never be used for food again.
Knitting and Crocheting are also very portable, so you can bring your project with you when you travel, or waiting for an appointment.
Beading is fun since you can make jewelry, and the projects can be as easy or complicated as you want to make them. You can decide to choose a project that only takes an hour, or one that takes 6 months.
Polymer clay has benefits as you can make so many different things from it - containers, jewelry, home decorations and x-mass tree ornaments. You have so many other materials you can incorporate into the process, and a huge range of colors and textures to work with.
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