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The preservation, presentation and journaling of your memories in an album that can be passed from generation to generation. By selecting products that are acid and lignin free, the photograph ageing and deteriorating process can be minimised ensuring precious photographs stay in good quality for a long periods of time. Remember the yellowed photograph album? Scrapbooking helps avoid this problem.
Memory Art have followed scrapbooking through it’s growth as a creative craft in the USA and its progress as a craft here in the UK. Scrapbooking has evolved over the years from simple photograph albums and journals as well as card scrapbooks to a creative craft that embodies artistic and craft principles. In short – there’s no right or wrong way and the only limitation is your imagination.
Scrapbooking, as a creative craft means different things to different people and you may start scrapbooking for many reasons, including:
- A scrapbook of your wedding
- A scrapbook of life’s journey
- A scrapbook tracing your ancestry
- A scrapbook of a child’s birth
- A scrapbook of your treasured family pet
- A heritage scrapbook
Scrapbooks come in many sizes, although in recent years they have standardised in 3 basic sizes have evolved. All should be of acid and lignin free construction and a post bound scrapbook construction is a must for those that want to extend their albums. Standard scrapbook sizes are 6x6, 8x8 and 12x12. A post bound scrapbook allows it to be expanded with further scrapbook pages. Manufacturers such as K&Co. have a non standard album size of 8.5x8.5 although their extra pages are readily available.
Our shop is based in Chandlers Ford serving the Romsey, Winchester, Southampton and surrounding areas of Hampshire. Although our shop is based in Hampshire we have a large internet site that has international customers. We also have shoppers that travel to Hampshire to attend our crops and to visit our shop from quite a distance.
Scrapbooking has evolved even in the past ten years, it is also different depending on the country you are in. Having lived and been a regular attendee at scrapbooking events in the USA we have seen that the range of products for scrapbooking has been extended heavily as well as page layouts, colours and styles. Scrapbooking has also been complemented by a range of shape cutting machines called die-cutting machines. These include the Sizzix and also the Ellison Big Shot. We have seen in recent years the introduction of electronic cutting machines such as the Provo Craft Cricut. These die cutting tools have allowed us at Memory Art in Chandlers Ford, Hampshire to provide you with Sizzix hire equipment for scrapbooking and card making. Our Sizzix equipment is also available for use at our well attended crops. Our crops are run a stones throw from our shop in Chandlers Ford, Hampshire. While the crop is designed for scrapbookers we do encourage card makers as well because the techniques are interchangeable.
We advocate the use acid and lignin free products, photographs, acid free glue’s and pen’s to journal with when creating your scrapbook. At Memory Art in Chandlers Ford, Hampshire we have facilities to print your acid free photo’s on stickers for you to put straight into your own scrapbook album!
Scrapbooking has become a craft that overlaps with many other creative crafts such as card making. Our shop in Chandlers Ford, Hampshire not only sells scrapbook products and albums but also card making and craft products to support the scrapbooking techniques. We also have a range of artist, beading and now beading products available. We are also approved suppliers of many international brands.
Here at Memory Art in Chandlers Ford, Hampshire we hand select all our scrapbooking products to bring a high quality range at very competitive prices. At our crops and workshops, held in Chandlers Ford, Hampshire we encourage the social aspects of scrapbooking. Our well attended crops and workshops are a perfect place to relax and share ideas. Help is at hand for those that need some inspiration. We provide free sessions within the price of our crop, for those that are interested.
Our shop in Chandlers Ford, Hampshire offers not only products at a reasonable price, but a service that you are unlikely to find from the large chain stores. We source from manufacturers around the world to provide everything from mulberry paper through to scrapbooking products from the USA and Canada. We also support our own UK based manufacturers.
Scrapbooking is a great craft – we hear time and time again how addictive it is. You have been warned! Scrapbooking has also become a multi-billion pound global market that has experienced phenomenal growth in recent years. Come and visit us in Chandlers Ford, Hampshire to see for yourself our extensive range of scrapbooking products. Supporting independent retailers is the only way that you will continue to see individual products, chosen by crafters themseleves. Here at Memory Art we can advise you on the right products for the job because we use many of them ourselves!
Acid free products are needed to help preserve your photographs as long as possible in a scrapbook album. Glue, paper, stickers, embellishments should all be acid free to avoid discolouration. The acidity of products causes paper and photographs to deteriorate, so this term refers to a neutral level of acidity, i.e. pH 7.
Lignin is the natural bonding element that holds wood fibers together. Newspaper contains lignin and you will notice how brittle and yellowed a newspaper becomes after just a few days. Lignin can be removed during the processing of scrapbook paper to make it safe for use. Remember to check that your paper products are both acid and lignin free.
To “crop” a photo means to cut it to shape and size. In the USA this term is used to describe a group of people meeting up to "crop" their photographs. Our crops are available on the workshops page.
