What does it mean?
Every new endeavor comes with its own jargon. Scrapbooking is no different. Keep these terms in mind when shopping for supplies and when making your first pages.
Acid-free: Over time, acid discolors and fades photos and will eventually destroy almost anything it comes in contact with. Look for products with pH (acidity) factors between 7 and 8.5.
Archival quality: Materials with this label have been tested to determine that their acidic and buffered content is within safe levels.
Buffered: Even acid-free paper may become acidic over time when exposed to acidic scrapbook memorabilia. Buffered paper reduces this breakdown and is less likely to become acidic.
Crop: A get-together where friends and others gather to create scrapbook pages. Also what you do to a photo to remove unwanted portions of it.
Layout: The arrangement of items on your scrapbook page.
Lignin-free: Lignin causes paper to yellow and become brittle when exposed to ultraviolet light. Most paper, other than newsprint, is lignin-free.
Photo-safe: This term is similar to archival quality but more specific to the materials used with photos. It means the item is both acid- and lignin-free.
Scraplift: Copying a layout done by another scrapbooker. Just fine if you’re not planning to have it published!
Scrapper: This is you! A scrapper is a person who does scrapbooking (also called a scrapbooker).
Spread: Two scrapbook pages, usually completed on the same topic, that appear opposite each other in an album.
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