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Album — Blank book used to store scrapbooking photographs and scrapbook pages.
Archival — Term describing a product or technique used in preserving artifacts, photographs, memorabilia and other items.
Basic Templates — Templates in basic shapes such as circles, squares, ovals.
Buffered — Products capable of maintaining the core of a solution.(buffered paper prevents acid from moving from a photograph to a paper).
Calligraphy—Formal, old fashioned lettering.
Cardstock — Strudy paper, available in a variety of weights for scrapbooking.
Clip Art — Art purchased in book or software from that can be applied to scrap booking pages.
Collage — An artistic composition made of various materials (paper, cloth, wood) that are glued onto a surface.
Corner-Edger Scissors — Scissors that cut corners. Each pair creates four different types of corners.
Crop — To cut or trim a photograph. A scrap booking party hosted by an expert who shares techniques, products, and information with the group.
Decorative scissors — Scissors with a decorative pattern on the blade.
Die-Cut Designs — Paper designs cut from die cut machines.
Double-Mount — To place a photo on two background papers.
Embellishment — Any scrap booking supplies that enhance the pages.
Emboss — To create a raised surface by applying heat or pressure.
Fine and Chisel Pens — A fine tip pen (0.5mm) and chisel tip (6.0mm) used for lettering.
Gel-Based rollers — pens with pigment ink.
General Pattern Paper — paper with patterns, made to use for any occasion.
Gift Album — A compilation of photographs and mementos created with a person or event in mind.
Handmade Paper — Paper made by hand that is often rough and uneven in texture. There are flowers and leaves in the paper sometimes, which can add a natural look to your scrapbook.
Handmade Scraps — scrap book supplies made from layered-looking die-cuts.
Heading — The caption or title that explains the theme of a layout.
Heritage — Traditions passed down from generation to generation.
Idea Books — Books usually about one aspect of scrap booking. Some are written for particular scrapbooking themes (wedding, babies, pets, etc.) while others are devoted to a particular scrapbook supplies product (stickers, die-cuts, templates, etc).
Journaling — any words you write in your scrapbook or on the scrapbook page, from titles and captions to long descriptions, poems or stories.
Journaling Templates — templates with space left for writing.
Layout — the grouping of pages in your scrapbook that go together. Some scrap booking layouts fit on one page, most fit on two and some are put on panoramic layouts.
Letter Templates — templates in the shape of letters of the alphabet.
Lignin — a naturally occurring acid substance in wood that breaks down over time. Paper with lignin is not suitable for archival scrapbooking projects.
Master Family Album — holds photographs of everyone in the family and family documents, typically in chronological order.
Memorabilia — certificates, documents and other items that tell a story. Memorabilia can include souvenirs from trips and mementos from special occasions or historical events.
Mount — to adhere a photograph, embellishment or other item to another piece of paper.
Oval Cutters — paper trimmers that cut paper and photographs into ovals.
Page Protectors — acid-free plastic sheets that display and protect pages.
Paper Trimmers — paper-cutting tools used by placing paper, lining it up on a grid and moving down a blade.
Pattern Paper — paper with designs repeated on the entire page.
pH Level — measurement that tells a scrapbooker how acidic or basic something is. For scrapbooking, you want to use products with a pH level of seven or above.
Photo Corners — paper with adhesive on the back used to adhere photographs to a page on the corners. Used to adhere photos in scrapbooks and photo albums without applying adhesive directly to the photograph.
Post-Bound Albums — scrapbooking albums that are held together with metal posts that run through the pages.
Red-Eye Pen — used to take red-eye out of flash photographs.
Reversible Adhesive — an adhesive that can be undone.
Shape Cutters - tools designed to cut shapes (circles, ovals, stars, etc.). The scrapbooking cutters can be adjusted to create different sizes of these shapes.
Sticker — an adhesive decorative accent ranging in size from a few centimeters across to a full page.
Strap-Hinge Albums — scrapbooking albums secured with plastic straps that run through a holder directly on the pages and keep the book in place.
Template — a stencil used to trace shapes onto scrapbook pages or photos.
Theme — the overall emphasis of a page or scrapbook.
Vellum — a lightweight, translucent paper.
Wide-Edge Scissors — decorative-edge scissors that make a cut that is five times deeper than normal scissors.
Workshop —a class usually held at a scrapbooking store and taught by an expert. Participants bring photos and pages to work on and get advice from the instructor.

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