BellaOnline Forums Hobbies and Crafts Scrapbooking Newbie Help Needed

Let me apologize ahead of time...I don't know the first thing about scrapbooking. My mom just celebrated her 85th birthday with an amazing party. She handed me a huge bag of favors, napkins, photos, confetti, etc and asked me to make a scrapbook. Of course I said yes having absolutely no idea what I was signing up for. Now what? Is there a special book and tools I need to buy. What exactly qualifies as a scrapbook? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Wow! That is awesome! She gave you a lot of items to put into a scrapbook that beginners don't think to add.
There are different styles and sizes of scrapbooks. If you want to put all of these items for this one event into a single book, you can probably get away with smaller size book. You don't need a special book, but they are nice.
If you want it to last, not turn yellow and the papers break down in ten years, you will want to get acid-free, archival quality papers and adhesives from a good supplier.
There are great online guides to give you some direction, like the one associated with this forum, here is the link to the starter article:
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I am new to scrapbooking too even though I have many albums, pages, and supplies. But I'm determined to make my daughter a scrapbook at least of her time in pre-school and then next year kindergarten.

My mom had made me a scrapbook of all my kindergarten artwork and papers. I loved looking through that when I was a kid.

I started scrapping primarily to preserve and pass on family memories. My mom did a lot of genealogy, so it is sort of like I am continuing where she stops. It really is great for kids and even adults to have these albums.
There are occasional scrapping weekend retreats I go on, tht is when most of my scrapping gets done. Otherwise, it just sits in piles.

Anyone that scrapbooks should invest in a Cricut and Cricut Design Studio. You don't have to buy all those cartridges, with the software you can do just about any type of cutout you want.