Talk:Scrapbooking

Women?
reading "women" too often in this article. justify it or remove it! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.47.163.18 (talk) 22:40, 29 June 2012 (UTC)

I disagree with the above comment, men don't tend to scrapbook, women do! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.25.238.223 (talk) 15:45, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

Men also scrapbook using the methods described in this article. Men have long kept variations of scrapbooks that do not easily fit with our modern ideas about scrapbooking (e.g., lab books, leaf collection books). Perhaps a separate section should be added talking about the role of women in the hobby and industry makes sense along editing the topic to include men? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Stephaniemedleyrath (talk • contribs) 10:57, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

True. this article is sexist. My husband spends every free hour scrapbooking (without me :(

Then join him!

Scrapbooking Materials

 * Removed edit by Firewriter: It is important to use the proper type of adhesive. More information about adhesive selection can be found here.

- Any discussion of "proper" materials belongs in the following paragraph about quality of supplies for archival purposes, not where it was placed.

- The link is just a blatant promotion of someone's webpage, since the relevant information on adhesives found there is only one sentence long. If that information is really so important for a general article on Scrapbooking, then it should be included as data, not as a link. If the linked site is very popular and contains a good deal of information, simply list it in the links section of the article.

MamaGeek Joy

Links under consideration
Scrapbook Business Education Programs:

ScrapBiz was started in 2001 as an alternative to the multi-level direct sales companies in the industry. Instead of selling products to consultants, who in turn, would sell them for a small profit to customers, ScrapBiz helps women start their own businesses. Business members purchase products for resale directly from scrapbook product wholesalers. ScrapBiz is one of the largest retail education groups in the industry and has incubated many successful industry businesses.
 * ScrapBiz

This site as been up and running for a while now. I like visiting this site. It is a straight forward blog type site with Q&A and articles on all things related to scrap-booking and providing relevant links to suppliers as wel as lots of how-to video feeds. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.232.122.26 (talk) 01:21, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
 * 

This site aims to simplify "Scrapbooking How To Instructions" for Beginner Scrapbooking Enthusiasts seeking a much more simple approach to Scrapbooking. We launched the site in 2007 (so we are very new) but we have already received great feedback from subscribers (mini-course students) and visitors. Our hope is to bridge the gap between beginner Scrapbooking interests and the vast supply of superior Scrapbooking Ideas, Techniques and Project Details available online and offline.
 * Scrapbooking for Beginners

Cijaye 18:37, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Scrapbooking Supply Websites:

This is the very first scrapbooking supply store! It was started in 1981 in Spanish Fork, Utah (where it still stands today) under the name of "The Annex" (please see how the scrapbooking industry started, at Keeping Memories Alive's history) and changed to its current name in 1994. This store is also the first one to have a scrapbook supply website, www.Scrapbooks.com, registered and first uploaded in 1996. It is this store that was the base which all other scrap- booking companies (including those with magazines) followed suit of when they started to open in the mid-1990s and later. Keeping Memories Alive has many original patterned paper designs, and they design new products that form new styles to keep things exciting and hot! KMA sells many other scrapbooking products that are on the edge of the latest styles for your scrapbooking pleasure, while at the same time keeping prices down for the budget-minded scrapbooker.
 * Keeping Memories Alive

I'll second this one! Being first IS significant enough for inclusion. FreedomWorks! 18:36, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

I will third this one! As stated, being first is significant enough for inclusion, as was the extensive work done by this company and its owner in researching superior materials to use and coming up with the creative setup ideas that many other follow-up companies used in their own stores. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.115.49.127 (talk) 11:03, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Great resource for all things scrapbooking.
 * http://www.scrapbooking.com

This scrapbooking site offers over 5000 scrapbook supplies and embellishments. Scrapbooking gallery offers lots of great layout ideas.
 * http://www.scrapbooksupplystore.com

Contains some galleries of layouts, but not all images load properly Parts of the website are incomplete, such as the Resources section Message board appears to be fairly active, with many users, and recent posts Shopping section appears to be main focus of the site: "Two Peas in a Bucket is an Internet-based scrapbooking store"
 * Two Peas in a Bucket

Second! The message board on this site rocks! It's VERY active. But I'd include TwoPeas under "Scrapbooking Interaction Websites" FreedomWorks! 18:36, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Appears to be an ameteurish online scrapbooking charm store, with a notice that it is currently closed due to a fire Only sells charms, not a mainstream scrapbooking site "Our Super Scrapbooking Store offers thousands of scrapbooking supplies at discounted prices, providing all your scrapbooking needs in one convenient place!" This looks like a pretty professional scrapbooking supply site, including customer service and scrapbooking instructional guides
 * A Charming Place
 * Smile and Scrap
 * Scrap Lovers
 * JK Crafts
 * Sizzix
 * CreativeXpress
 * Creativepapercrafts
 * Crop Circle Scrapbooking
 * Scrapbooking Direct


 * [http://www.scrapboxx.com.au Scrapboxx.  This is a great site for a gallery, forum and online shopping.  It is very popular in Australia and had thousands of members.


 * A Cherry On Top, Scrapbook Shoppe

Active online scrapbooking community, thousands of layout ideas, good articles. Store includes both digital and paper scrapbooking products.

Why choose Scrapbooks by Sally? Unique design Simple page layouts More photos per page Backgrounds enhance photos          View Sample Scrapbook Pages No clutter Great price Let us create a one-of-a-kind Scrapbook for you or someone you love!
 * Scrapbooks by Sally


 * WorldWin Papers


 * Scrap It Simple,

Manufacturer of the Scrap Wrap (R) Scrapbook Album. A Patent Pending design which uses Velcro (R) as the binding system instead of Posts, Screws or Straps. Also printer of on-demand custom scrapbook paper.--Rdhinman 21:33, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

Digital Scrapbooking Websites: Beeclip is a new application to create amazing photo and video scrapbooks. You can upload photos and videos from your own computer or grab clips directly from Youtube and Google Images. You can use the site to create photo and video albums, or scrapbooks around a given topic. There are community features in place to share scrapbooks with other users on Beeclip, and also share privately with friends. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.70.29.22 (talk) 09:56, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Digital Scrapbooking - Beeclip

Discover memories of your children you didn't even know existed. So many times your friends come over for dinner or your family comes to visit for the holidays. They all have digital cameras and take a ton of photos of your children. Most of which end up on their computer somewhere or collecting dust in their camera. With MyBabyOurBaby.com you invite all of your friends and family to add photos and memories of your children all into one place. This site helps people to capture all kinds of memories, to collaborate with family and friends, and to allow you to create keepsakes out of those memories. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.88.165.111 (talk) 19:13, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
 * My Baby Our Baby

Very large scrapbooking community with thousands of members, gallery posts, and free downloads MamaGeek Joy recommends this site for inclusion in main article Digital scrapbook graphics store, contains few freebies, few tutorials Has small community of gallery posters (in the hundreds) Basically a good site, but limited and best features require payment popular online scrapbooking site used by a lot of folks Dave recommends this site for inclusion in main article
 * Deco Pages
 * Scrapbook-Elements
 * Scrapbook-Bytes
 * Scrapper's Guide
 * Scrapbook Graphics
 * dedicated2Digital
 * AboutMyBaby.com

Scrapbooking Magazines
 * Scrapbooking Memories Online

Scrapbooking Printing
 * Scrapbook printing and preservation issues

Scrapbooking Ideas Get all the exciting scrapbooking ideas,suggestions,tips and techniques for your Baby,wedding, Military Personnel and Lots More.
 * All Scrapbooking Ideas

Scrapbooking Interaction Websites:
 * Scrapbook Radio Audio interviews with industry professionals
 * Diva Craft Lounge
 * ACP Scrapbook Forums
 * ScrapBlog Blog Blog covering tips and tricks for digital scrapbooking.

The Bookit - Create your own hand stitched-book easily:
 * [The Bookit Create and assemble your own hard bound book

This looks like a link farm
I'm just passing through and didn't click on EVERY link, but these are not primarily informative sites, except on how to use the stuff being sold. Some of the sites may be run by folks who are really nice, who have been instrumental in the spread of scrapbooking, and who have brought joy and satisfaction to thousands. But WP is an online encyclopedia. Small businesses are not excepted from the rules. Truly informative sites that had substantial amounts of neutral information would probably meet standards as I understand them. DCDuring 11:01, 13 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Someone removed most of the external links - personally I think there are a couple of larger community sites that could have stayed, but it was probably easier to start again and keep it sensible. I've just been through and removed the links that were in the body text too, looks a bit more readable now. Davedx (talk) 15:28, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

Controversies Section
The following section was removed, because it's unreferenced and sounds fake. If the person who added it can find a reference, go ahead and put it back. It just looked too blatantly obvious to be left in there. MamaGeek (talk/contrib) 12:04, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

In 1998, Ian Alexander Mackley started the Moonlight Church of Scrapbooking which was investigated in connection with the deaths of several middle aged women. Though no charges were filed, the church dissembled in 2000. Ian Alexander Mackley was quoted as saying "Screw all y'all".

WikiProcess
Wiki Best Practices - I invite all you Scrapbooking lovers to share the best practice for scrapbooking.

How-to section
Something needs to be done with the How to scrapbook section. It doesn't seem to be enough of a "how-to" to merit a section with that title, and most of it simply reiterates ponits already made in the other parts of the article.

Materials needed, the importance of archival-quality and acid-free materials, and the availability of digital scrapbooking are all discussed in other sections. There are points that may be necessary to keep because they are not elsewhere in the article: the point that there are no rules, sketching, and use of quilling and flowers for embellishments.

I propose an edit, but I'm not sure where to go with it. Thoughts? Should we keep a "how-to" section? If so, how should it be structured? I think WikiProcess is the place for how-to, not here. (See comment above on Wiki Best Practices). (Actually, after clicking that link and exploring a bit, I'm not sure that WikiProcess looks so promising, after all. Most of the "articles" on there are just plain offensive.)

Scjenne 17:38, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

I draw your attention to Wikipedia policy WikiPedia not a guidebook. Where this section goes, I don't know; but it certainly doesn't belong in Wikipedia. DCDuring 16:04, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

Creative Memories
I'm just a newbie, and I don't have time to read all the history on this article, but I am frankly dumbfounded that I don't see even a single reference to Creative Memories in this article...not even a link! Did I miss it somewhere? The history section contains extensive references to the development and progress of another scrapbooking company, which just seems lopsided to me, knowing the actual impact that Creative Memories has had on this industry. Is it worth my time to try to balance this article, or will I be reintroducing content that has already been decided against? Staceyburz 19:20, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

What actual impact did Creative Memories have on this industry other than to follow suit the original company? Creative Memories did not introduce anything new. The major impact on this industry was made by the original beginning scrapbooking company, who started the idea and did the research on the materials that are best used, etc. All the "cookie-cutter" companies to follow should not expect to be named in this article- there are simply too many of them. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.115.49.127 (talk) 10:53, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Keeping Memories Alive
Hey, Staceyburz, I second 76.115.49.127's question. Did Creative Memories start the modern-day scrapbooking industry? Absolutely NOT! What about the company who DID do that (in 1981): Keeping Memories Alive? Who better to mention than the company who got this big ball of "scrapbooking snow" rolling?

(Yes, okay, scrapbooking, in and of itself, has, of course, been around forever--well, way before 1981, anyway. But was there really an actual INDUSTRY for it before 1981, with the operation of that store in Spanish Fork, Utah? Not to the knowledge of anyone I've ever heard of.)

Citecheck
The article incidentally says that Mark Twain got a patent for a "self-pasting scrapbook," not that he kept one. DCDuring 15:42, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

Found source for Mark Twain as a scrapbooker. 13:14 30 July 2008 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.197.183.76 (talk) 17:18, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Many of the things in the article are highly likely to be true, but could use some kind of valid support. Otherwise, it will start to look like a mere puff-piece with NPOV problems. DCDuring 15:51, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

I'm upset is this so much unwiki?
"Modern scrapbooking is done largely on 12"×12" or 8½×11" pages."
 * We don't use inches--only centimetres--at our home. Sorry, there must be one more tag to put upon poor scrapbookin' page, but I ignore which. Go ahead! -- DLL .. T 20:32, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

History section improvement
Scrapbooking has a long and very interesting history which is not covered here at all. There is perhaps too much coverage (in my opinion) of one modern woman's recent career in the American scrapbooking industry, and very little coverage of the origins and development of this activity throughout history, which frankly, is far more interesting and encyclopedic. This reads way too much like an advertisement (I suppose I could have used that tag as well). The Victorian era receives no mention at all, which is a huge oversight. I'll try to work on it as I have time, but some research and help would be appreciated. I'm better with copyediting than writing due to time constraints. SlackerMom 12:20, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

History "Improvement?" You, SlackerMom?
SlackerMom, are you someone that the Wikipedia appointed as one of their admins? What is it that decides that something you write should be considered any more "correct" than what someone else writes? Who is the authority of this article? Now, I agree with you that more of the very OLD scrapbooking history should be included here, because after all, what is a history without a sample taken from all periods of life--right? But why shouldn't that modern-day USA-based woman you mentioned come right in here and write something in this herself and have that be considered just as correct to include as anything you'd write?

I'm not saying that USA-based woman does or doesn't write stuff in here (I am not her, though)--I don't know who all the writers are in here--but I haven't heard of someone saying that one of you should be considered more of an authority on the matter than any one of the others of you writers of this article. Right?

But yes, I maintain, like you, that if someone can find the history from as far back as possible, that should be included here. In the meantime, if the only part of the history of something that can be accurately described at the moment only happens to be the modern-day part, it should be allowed to remain. If you or someone else happens to find an accurate account of the oldest possible history of this subject (and pieces in between), then more power to you or them!

Mark Twain?
In case nobody's watching, the reference link for Mark Twain has nothing to do with scrapbooking. swain (talk) 22:44, 29 January 2008 (UTC)


 * no —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.182.76.130 (talk) 16:50, 2 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Um, did you actually read that page? It plainly states "Twain also received patents for a self-pasting scrapbook in 1873, that was very popular and sold over 25,000 copies"! -- Jokes Free4Me (talk) 11:35, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

Why Scrapbook?
Couples can commemorate everything from the first date to the first anniversary on the album's spiralbound pages.[1]

It can be a successful teaching strategy. Debi West, a teacher from North Gwinnett High School shares her experience. I have found over the years that it is extremely important to document your lessons, your assessments, your student work and your exhibits so that you have a means of reflecting on the aspects that worked well and reassessing the aspects of the lesson that may need some tweaking. Although I rarely teach the same theme-based curriculum, I often reuse my lessons over the years as they can easily fit into various units of instruction, and I often alter them to make them stronger and more effective.[2]

A few years ago, as I was looking through my many scrapbooks, I realized that in order to get with the 21st century and join the technological age, I could also take these scrapbook pages and put them on the Web digitally, thus creating my own Web site, complete with yearlong curricula. I love to share successful teaching strategies with others as the ultimate winners end up being our students! Take these ideas and springboard off to give them your own personal touch![2]

Cutting and pasting may seem archaic when it's possible to tote around 25,000 of your favorite snapshots on an iPod. But the good old-fashioned pastime of keepsaking is taking off in the U.S., making scrapbooking big business. [1]

[1] [2]  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Megginleggin (talk • contribs) 06:35, 16 March 2011 (UTC)

Definition
The article doesn't actually tell what it's about. "Scrapbooking is a method for preserving personal and family history in the form of a scrapbook." No kidding? Then what is a scrapbook? Radulfr (talk) 08:46, 30 November 2014 (UTC)