Top 5 Tips for Finding a Scrapbooking Kit Youll Love



Posted: Friday, November 21, 2008

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Shabby Chic Crafts

From the outside, it looks like scrapbooking is a complicated hobby. From journaling tags to die cuts to chipboard, it seems like there is a never ending array of scrapbooking supplies to choose from. If youve tried scrapbooking and found it frustrating to match your paper with your tags and so forth, you can still create beautiful pages without spending a whole lot of time.

Scrapbooking kits are completed coordinated paper and embellishments that make scrapbooking easy as pie. Some kits will give you enough supplies to create a two page layout and others have enough for an entire scrapbook. Kits take the guesswork out of scrapping and once you find scrapbooking kits that you love, youll be able to get those old photos out of the closet and into a book where they belong!

There are so many scrapbooking kits available; it can sometimes be hard to pick out one that youll like. Follow these easy steps to buying kits and creating layouts youll love.

Search for your favorite colors Even a professionally designed kit can look ugly if its using colors that you dont find appealing. While you should definitely try to break away and try new colors, try to find kits that come in colors that you already like. This way your kit pages will coordinate with other pages in your book that youve created yourself.

Find familiar techniques There are dozens of scrapbooking techniques and if you try to become a master of them all youll end up frustrated. If a kit uses techniques that youre not familiar with, youll be less likely to complete the pages from the kit. Look for kits that build upon techniques youre already familiar with. This doesnt mean that you cant learn new techniques. Just dont try to tackle several of them in the same scrapbooking kit.

Look for kits you can expand upon Some scrapbooking kits go the extra mile and create mats for your pictures or even do the entire layout for you. While these kits are easy to use (since you just have to place in your pictures), you can get the most out of your scrapbooking kits by finding ones that include supplies in their raw form. This means that you can add a few papers of your own and extend the kit. Instead of making two pages you can make four, and so on.

Find designers you like Lots of top designers have their own kits, or contribute to kits made by others. Find kits that have the same style as your favorite designers by entering their name + scrapbooking kit into your favorite search engine. You can also do the same with etsy shops. Many of sellers make custom designs that you cant find anywhere else.

Go with the 80 of the supplies in a kit that youll end up using, its a good buy!

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