Scrapbooking is a very popular hobby of preserving photographs and other memorabilia for future viewing by using notebooks known as scrapbooks. The scrapbook carries the thoughts, ideas and feelings of the person creating that scrapbook. The person also uses decorations to make the viewing of the scrapbook as a beautiful and enjoyable experience. The whole exercise of making a scrapbook is directed towards making it into a visually attractive document whereby a person could combine his or her thoughts and ideas with some amount of beauty and glamour.

With the increasing popularity of using computer in our everyday life, the hobby of scrapbooking has also been influenced by this trend. Many people now are maintaining digital scrapbooks. Easy availability of printers, scanners and desktop publishing software has provided a great boost towards this trend. Many of the social networking websites provide the facility of maintaining online scrapbook to all its members.

Because of its immense popularity, scrapbooking has now turned into a commercial activity. This activity is small-scale in status and has evolved greatly in the last few years. Because of this increasing activity, it has led to the development of a number of scrapbooking techniques. In fact, everybody could develop one's own scrapbooking techniques. But, some of these techniques are quite beneficial for anybody interested in this hobby. There are a number of websites that provide information regarding scrapbooking techniques. A few books have been published on the subject of scrapbooking techniques as well. But, a few quite common scrapbooking techniques are being elaborated below.

The most important aspect of scrapbooking is the paper used for these scrapbooks. The paper selected should have long life, should be sturdy and preferably acid free. Another important aspect of any scrapbook is its planning. All the materials used in a scrapbook should be carefully selected and should be arranged in a very planned manner. While developing a scrapbook, we should have a clear idea regarding its design.

Another important is to provide an index page for the scrapbook. Same purpose could be served by highlighting pages so that they could be located easily. The index page could be considered as a special page and could decorated in special colors and symbols.

Another important aspect of any scrapbook is its decoration. Most scrapbooking techniques suggest the need of the right type of decoration. These decorations should be minimal but sufficient. But, these decorations should not be overdone which make the scrapbook look gaudy.

There are a large number of scrapbooking techniques are available. You could utilize some of them to make your scrapbook quite versatile.