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Preserve your best memories for later. Try your hand at scrapbooking. There are no rules; let creativity get ahead of you.

Have you ever scrapbooked? This crafting and documenting activity involves books with blank pages to which you add photos, memorabilia and ornamentation. The main purpose of scrapbooking is to preserve your memories. The other reason is, it is one place where you can get creative.

Scrapbooking is not something new. It’s been around since the 15th or 16th century. It began as a simple collection contained in a book. The collection could include recipes, greeting cards, tickets, notes and drawings. It is believed to have been started by the Mormons, a religious sect in the U.S., who wanted to preserve their family and religious history. The idea caught on with others too and people began to paste photographs, with notes and other commentaries to remember the moment.

However, bringing it up to modern times is the work of Marielen E. Christensen of Utah, the U.S. She authored

Keeping Memories Alive and opened a scrapbook store in 1981. In 2001, there was a kind of revival and it blossomed into a multi million dollar company. With blogging growing in popularity, digital scrapbooking is a favoured pasttime.

So, would you like to save your memories for posterity? Scrapbooking is like a sponge, absorbing other craft and hobbies. Decorative planners, coloured pictures, diary notes, drawing, printing, philately, postcards...name it, and it can go into your scrapbook.

What will you need to get started?

A scrapbook (of course!) in any size of

your choice.

Scissors

Decorative papers/ cards

Glue

Stickers

Other ornamentation different types of stickers, buttons and more.

Special pens and markers.