Scrapbooking Paper – Endless Designs For Creativity

Geometric shapes, jelly beans, ocean waves, flowers, baby bottles...what do these things have in common? They're all used as themes for scrapbooking paper! Whether you're making holiday cards, an album documenting your child's graduation, a fun bulletin board, or a "welcome home" poster, you can find most any theme being used as decorative paper. In addition, these pages are available in a variety of sizes, textures and weight. Check this out!

Themed paper. Most any theme that you can think of, is available in scrapbooking paper. A few examples are:
• Nature: water, flowers, sunset, stars, snow, grass, trees
• Holidays: Christmas, Easter, Halloween, Valentine's Day, Thanksgiving
• Babies: diapers, congratulations, baby rattles, ABC blocks
• School: graduation cap and gown, school bus, school building
• Birthdays: gifts, birthday cake, candles
• Hobbies/Sports: stamps, dolls, soccer, dance
• Animals: dogs, whales, kittens, bunnies, giraffes
• Characters: Snow White, Winnie-the-Pooh, Dora, Spiderman

Paper size. Scrapbooking paper is commonly available as 12"x12" sheets or 8.5"x11" sheets. The larger size is typically used as a background for regular scrapbook album pages. The smaller size can be cut and used as cards, or as borders for the album pages, etc. Themed paper also comes in the size of large postcards. This size is great for making recipes or photo frames.

Paper texture. Depending on what you are creating, you may want paper that has texture. For invitations, you might consider vellum or matted paper. For a kid's project, metallic or paper with ripples would be fun. The theme items on some paper are raised a little--for example, paper containing raindrops. You can also purchase smooth themed paper, that gives the appearance of texture...bricks, tree bark, denim, rocks or sand.

Weight of paper. Scrapbooking paper comes in standard weight, card stock (heavier), or lighter than standard (vellum). The purpose of what you need the paper for, will determine the weight of paper you choose.

Scrapbooking paper is available at craft/hobby stores, retail stores, or on-line. As you begin to think of different projects to do, hold on to your scrap pieces. Quite often you'll have a need for just a small piece of decorative paper, so the scraps come in handy.

So how about it? Now that you know the different types of scrapbooking paper, what would you like to make? A party invitation? A photo frame? A brag book? Have fun selecting your decorative paper and being creative!

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Benni Jenyfari is a freelance writer who provides informative, detailed articles and reviews for a number of websites including the Australian Craft Directory. Read why Scrapbooking has become one of the top ten crafts of today. “Crafts”, “Australian Craft Directory”

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