| What is scrapbooking? This is a first question that | | | | business is, there are numerous shows and magazines |
| comes to our mind? Well for ages our peers, | | | | that have cropped up on the subject. One can also |
| contemporaries and in fact, even we have been | | | | find annual fairs and conventions taking place on |
| involved in scrapbooking business. It is a method for | | | | scrapbooking. On the Internet, there are websites, |
| preserving a legacy of written history in the form of | | | | webzines and web rings that are devoted to |
| photographs, printed media and memorabilia preserved | | | | scrapbooking only. The scrapbooking business offers |
| in albums or scrapbooks. In fact, scrapbooking was a | | | | tips and scrapbooking ideas. Before the success of |
| tradition similar to storytelling through pictures and | | | | the scrapbooking business, scrapbooking was solely a |
| visuals rather than a word of mouth. Since, then has | | | | hobby. The humble beginnings of the scrapbooking |
| become a lucrative business for many worldwide. | | | | business began in 1976 when Marielen Christensen— |
| Scrapbooking business is catching up with children, | | | | of Keeping Memories Alive—started designing |
| adults, women and even senior citizens worldwide. As | | | | creative scrapbook pages for her own family’s |
| there are many opportunities available for a person to | | | | photograph memories. She introduced inserting |
| make money out of it, in fact it is not just a hobby now | | | | memory scrapbooking pages in sheet protectors and |
| but has turned into full fledged business. One can do | | | | inside 3-ring binders. Now days, one finds cutting, |
| many things with scrapbooking, such as weddings, | | | | sticking, and designing like a nightmare, if one is not |
| pregnancy, military, sports, high school years, retirement, | | | | really much into the practice. You might even find the |
| graduations, careers, elementary school years, | | | | prospect of putting together one page of artistic work |
| engagements, vacations and parties. The scrapbooking | | | | too much for you to handle. |
| business is now a thriving industry that stocks | | | | In fact, with the change of time scrapbooking products |
| scrapbooking supplies which were once difficult to find. | | | | have become sophisticated and easy to handle. They |
| The scrapbooking business is considered as the meat | | | | are all designed to make scrapbooking as simple as |
| and potatoes of the scrapbooking hobby by many | | | | possible. Maybe you feel like you don’t have the |
| enthusiasts. The scrapbooking business is a place | | | | talent to put together one page even if your life |
| where one can even attend scrapbooking classes and | | | | depended on it. Maybe you just don’t have the |
| discover the best crops. Supplies can be ordered from | | | | time to create a layout that will look nice with the |
| a home-based retailer or on the Internet in the | | | | photo or photos you want to use. Why worry about it |
| scrapbooking business. Several within the | | | | when you can buy prepared scrapbook pages that |
| scrapbooking business sell scrapbooking products via | | | | already have layouts and designs. You just need to |
| a multi-level direct sales company, while others are | | | | add the finishing touches like the photo and some |
| part of an independent scrapbooking business group. | | | | accessories if you feel like it. |
| In fact, as a testament to how big scrapbooking | | | | |