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Scrapbooking Kits For Creativity

By: Barbara Kirby

The Scrapbooking craze has caught on like wildfire, and one of the great things about enjoying a thriving hobby is that newer and better tools are cropping up for it all the time. Veteran scrapbookers know better than to waste their time hunting down paper, tags and embellishments. Beginners, however, often make that mistake before they discover the magic of scrapbooking kits.

One Stop Shopping

One of the most useful, inspiring and efficient offerings of the scrapbooking industry has to be the scrapbooking kit. Without stumbling through 20 aisles at the craft store, one kit can offer you a theme, color scheme, layout designs and embellishments for a very reasonable price.

Many companies now offer monthly deals on kits. It’s like a book of the month club, but you are getting a cropper’s dream kit delivered to your door each month. These kits may include: textured cardstock, fibers, letters, patterned papers, templates, stamps, brads, tags and lined paper for journaling. They usually start around $30.00 and go up in price depending on your add-ons.

Once Upon a Theme

Kits may center on a holiday, event, season, locale, era, pattern, or color. It’s so helpful to have appropriate words and phrases right at your fingertips. In addition, you can purchase material based kits like ribbon kits, cardstock kits and fiber kits. These are useful if you are trying to incorporate a new item into your hobby. Such kits usually include helpful tips and ideas for the included materials.

Rather than inhibit creativity, pre-packaged scrapbooking kits actually provide croppers with inspiration and a starting point. It is truly amazing to see how different women can use the same package and achieve drastically different results. Of course, you are never limited to what’s in your chosen kit.

Events of a Lifetime

Some of my favorite kits are the ones you can get for milestones like weddings, new babies, and first days of school. They usually come with stickers, quotes on vellum paper or other ways to incorporate expressions and sayings onto the page. The wedding kits often contain richly textured paper with classically elegant designs. The baby scrapbook kits may offer bottle shaped eyelets, die-cut duckies or short answer journal pages for a sleepy new mom.

Interested in preserving family history? The ancestry kits are truly amazing. You can choose from family trees, vintage specialty paper, antique looking tints and frames, as well as old-time embellishments like ribbons, buttons and material scraps. Whatever tone you want to set for your heritage album, there are kits and materials that will suit your needs.

Choosing a Kit

Sometimes events dictate your theme, such as a graduation or a birthday party. Other times you may have a little more leeway to determine which decorations, patterns and themes to use. You will be astounded by the variety of kits that have been assembled. Over time I have discovered scrapbooking kits on produce, tools, toys, vintage dresses, and paisley, just to name a few. By browsing websites and catalogs, you are bound to find the scrapbooking kits to help you create your best album yet.

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About the Author:
Barbara Kirby is the author of the Free ebook - The Scrapbookers Directory - which gives you instant access to discount scrapbooking supplies, ideas, layouts, freebies and more. For more info check out http://www.thescrapbookersdirectory.com

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