The Best Scrapbooking Papers for Everyday Crafting

Many think of scrapbooking as modern, but it goes back centuries. In 1400s England, “commonplace books” emerged as a way to compile info—recipes, quotations, letters, poems. The 1500s’ “friendship albums” resembled yearbooks, where friends signed, with illustrations, and notes. In 1775, James Granger published a history of England that included blank pages for personalization. Around 1900, young women’s friendship albums began to resemble current scrapbo