I'm just a happy little scrapbooker and crafter who's got a small apartment and way too much stuff. trouble is, I can't seem to stop collecting more! Well, my addiction means great bargains for you!
I live in beautiful British Columbia (that's in Canada, you know...:) and I've been scrappin' for a few years now. I started out being a strict Creative Memories girl, and while I still think their products are the best, I've learned that there are a lot of other companies out there making excellent products as well. The supplies I sell on ebay are generally from my personal collection, although sometimes I come across a great deal or two and make sure I nab enough to share with you.
Scrapbooking is a method for preserving personal and family history in the form of photographs, printed media, and memorabilia contained in decorated albums, or scrapbooks. The idea of keeping printed materials of personal interest probably dates to shortly after the invention of printing. This trend is probably similar for photographs.
With the advent of affordable paper, precursors to modern scrapbooks became available to a wider array of people. Beginning in the 15th century, commonplace books, popular in England, emerged as a way to compile information that included recipes, quotes, letters, poems and more. Each commonplace book was unique to its creator's particular interests. Friendship albums became popular in the 16th century. These albums were used much like modern day yearbooks, where friends or patrons would enter their names, titles and short texts or illustrations at the request of the album's owner. These albums were often created as souvenirs of European tours and would contain local memorabilia including coats of arms or works of art commissioned by local artisans.Katritzky, M. A., "The Art of Commedia: A Study in the Commdia Dell'Arte 1560-1620 with Special Reference to the Visual Records", 2006, Rodopi Publishing Starting in 1570, it became fashionable to incorporate colored plates depicting popular scenes such as Venetian costumes or Carnival scenes. These provided affordable options as compared to original works and, as such, these plates were not sold to commemorate or document a specific event but specifically as embellishments for albums. In 1775, James Granger published a history of England with several blank pages at the end of the book. The pages were designed to allow the book's owner to personalize the book with his own memorabilia.Tucker, S., Ott, K., Buckler, P., "The Scrapbook in American Life", 2006, Temple University Press The practice of leaving pages to personalize at the end of books became known as grangerizing. Additionally, friendship albums and school yearbooks afforded girls in the 18th and 19th centuries an outlet through which to share their literary skills, and allowed girls an opportunity to document their own personalized historical record Greer, J., "Girls and Literacy in America: Historical Perspectives to the Present Moment", 2003, ABC-CLIO previously not readily available to them.
The advent of modern photography began with the first permanent photograph created by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce in 1826. Photography became available to an ever-widening population with the invention of George Eastman's paper photographs in the late 1880s and the mass production of the Kodak Brownie, a camera designed to be simple (and inexpensive) enough for a child, in 1900. This allowed the average person to begin to incorporate photographs into their scrapbooks.
Old scrapbooks tended to have photos mounted with photomount corners and perhaps notations of who was in a photo or where and when it was taken. They often included bits of memorabilia like newspaper clippings, letters, etc.
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The Cricut machine is truly the coolest paper crafting machine ever! I love it.
The ability to make die cuts in all sorts of sizes and to make customized text titles and icons is such a bonus for scrapbookers and card makers. You want it big? You want it small? All caps? It's all there and it's so easy.
It's truly a must have!
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cherisorganics wrote...
How cool I really didn't know much about scrapbooking before
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