Scrapbooking Kit

A scrapbooking kit is a fun gift to give to a friend who maybe has never scrapbooked before and who you’d like to introduce to the obsession. A scrapbooking kit can help new crafters get their hands on the basics without spending a lot of money.

A scrapbook kit makes it easy to create a coordinating page.

Purchased Scrapbooking Kits

Many manufacturers make scrapbooking kits with a wide variety of items inside. Here are just a few of the options that are out there:

• Deluxe Scrapbooking Kit has paper, die cuts, stickers and instructions for making six scrapbook pages.
• Save on Crafts sells scrapbooking kits for various occasions such as birthdays, weddings, births and nostalgia.
• If you’re looking for a scrapbook kit for a child, visit Mail Just For Me, which has several kid-friendly designs.
• Scrapbooking with Love has a great selection of scrapbooking kits and shows layouts you can just plug your own photos into and be done.
• Even Target has gotten in on the scrapbooking craze, with kits to make scrapbooks and brag books with no experience required.

Advantages of Scrapbooking Kits

A scrapbooking kit is great for someone who has never made a scrapbook before. If you don’t know what you’ll need to complete a page, it’s easy to get overwhelmed by all the choices at your local craft store.

Using a scrapbooking kit can help you build confidence if you don’t feel like you have a lot of artistic ability or don’t know where to start when it comes to building a scrapbook page. Scrapbooking kits are almost like training wheels: they let you see the possibilities and give you courage to set out on your own and design your own pages with confidence.

A scrapbooking kit is also great for someone who wants to scrapbook but is very busy and can’t find the time to do it. Buying everything you need in one pack can make it a lot easier, and you can just plug your pictures into the suggested layouts without having to think too much about it. You get the fun of scrapbooks without the long hours that typically go into scrapbooking.

Disadvantages of Scrapbooking Kits

The main disadvantage of working with a scrapbooking kit is that it limits your creativity. I’m not saying you have to use everything that came in the kit and only the things that came with the kit, but when you see the items that were designed to go together, it kind of stops your imagination from taking your pages in other directions.

Scrapbooking kits usually are designed for specific occasions such as birthdays, summer fun, family pets and babies. If you want to design a more diverse scrapbook, a scrapbooking kit will not get you there. Still, they are a good place to start if you’ve never done any scrapbooking. They can guide your thinking and teach you what works without a major investment in time or money.

Making Your Own Scrapbooking Kit

If you’d like to take the scrapbooking kit concept a little further you can make your own scrapbooking kits for yourself or to give as gifts. This is a fun way to broaden your horizons but still get a package of supplies that look good together. This would be a great gift exchange idea for a scrapbooking club.

Here are some of the things you’ll want to include in your scrapbooking kit:

• a small scrapbook
• several pieces of coordinating paper
• stickers
• die cuts
• a rubber stamp and ink
• other embellishments
• a fancy hole punch or scissors that cut a design

The sky and your budget are really the limits when making a scrapbooking kit. You could add all sorts of gadgets, supplies or tools. You could even throw in a book about scrapbooking design that will help your friend decide what to do with all these great pieces. Putting together a scrapbooking kit for a friend can be almost as much fun as building a scrapbook itself!

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