Each family or individual there is a story to tell about his life, about interesting events, people or cases that once happened to them. And most of all I want to permanently store the those emotions and impressions ...
And here comes to the aid of scrapbooking - needlework art to create a unique commemorative albums. A "nice talk" about the significant event or person the whole family helped photos, clippings from magazines and postcards, labels, cherished trinkets and decorative items. The story can talk about the wedding, birth, childhood and school years of family tradition, travel to overseas countries, and about another.
That will have an exclusive thing that would be carefully kept for many years, and possibly passed on from generation to generation.
This is the main task of scrapbooking: New, original and beautifully arrange and save.
How and where this kind of art in its infancy
It is no secret that all currently originates from the past. Scrapbooking roots originated in western Europe.
In the XV century in England and Germany were notebooks, in which it was possible to collect the clippings of articles, also record everything like: prayers, popular superstitions, sayings, recipes, thoughts and writings, formula, new knowledge and terms. There were first diaries and notebooks for friends and girlfriends, which contained the memorable stretches things hair, ribbons, write poems, part of dried plants
Later, there were books with stitched sheets and strong cover. To come up with the secret records used locks.
Publishes books with blank sheet for your personal records, then there was an innovation - edition with adhesive strips on the pages for attaching small items and clippings (by Mark Twain), hereinafter referred to as ornaments used colored paper and labels. The emergence of photography, were set up makeshift family albums.
Crafts continued to grow and become a whole art to create scrapbook. The desire to learn this area increased. Were held training courses, publishes books-books with advice and tips on the use of scrapbooking, create and open the first stores and then the websites of retail and wholesale sales of materials needed for this craft.
Gradually, the art of creating a book of memoirs acquired mass popularity and spread throughout the world. Especially coveted by American weavers.
When scrapbooking came to Russia
The Russian management and execution of homemade albums came in the XVIII century. His creativity is evident not only women but also men, decorating the personal diaries of the little things, poetry, color illustrations from magazines, newspaper clippings. In XX century, girls were profiles for bridesmaids, kept records of their innermost thoughts, collecting cards with pictures of movie and pop artists, clippings from fashion magazines. The men appeared Dembelskaya albums, which were collected army photos, lyrics, humorous drawings, memorabilia wishes comrades in the service.
In modern Russia, this needlework not actively used and only gaining momentum, attracting attention from year to year. Official birth of scrapbooking in Russia received only in 2006. The art continues to evolve: to create new products and new opportunities.
Not so long ago there was a fellow handmade scrapbooking - digital scrapbooking. Memorable albums are created using a computer and special graphic editors and programs.
A huge range of products offers great opportunities and only pushes to translate their imagination to create wonderful things that will marvel at the next generation.
The technique scrap masters do not just albums, but also unusual postcards, picture frames, toys, tags, boxes, jewelry boxes. Imagination has no limits!
Let entertaining scrapbooking will win your heart!
Create and create! Good luck!
