Scrapbooking has a very wide market, as it does not only include purely scrapbooking tools and materials. This is a hobby nurtured by other crafts such as watercolour painting, lettering, Mixed Media, and dozens of different techniques that enrich your projects. In this post, we are reviewing some of the most important scrapbooking brands and what each of them can offer.
Each scrapbooking brand offers us something different, each one has its style, and many are specialized in a specific product: some brands only launch paper collections and matching accessories while others focus on machines and tools. What is certain is that each of them will offer you a range of materials that will inspire you and encourage you to create, easily finding everything you need for your projects.
Craftelier Basics
Of course, we couldn't do this post without mentioning our brand, Craftelier Basics. We began to design some products a few years ago, starting with the Cyanoacrylate Glue. Then came other basics for our scrapbooking projects, the double-sided tapesĀ . From then on, we continued to create basic and essential products for scrapbooking and little by little we added more products to our catalogue: punches, brushes, cardboard in different colours, a wide range of eyelets in three sizes, disc rings, and even watercolours. Always listening to your suggestions about what products you want and most importantly, always looking for the best quality at the best price, making easier for you to enjoy your hobby.
American Crafts
To talk about scrapbooking brands is to talk about American Crafts. Until the mid 90s vintage was the trend in scrapbooking, so earth tones, calligraphy, and old photos were the predominant themes in all the projects. Then American Crafts came along to change the world of scrapbooking and started to offer materials with modern, fresh, and fun designs. This, made scrapbooking more trendy, changing styles and helping scrapbooking become a little more popular.
Some of the best-known scrapbooking designers have worked with the American brand, such as Heidi Swapp, Amy Tangerine, Paige Evans, Vicki Boutin, and Maggie Holmes. American Crafts is nowadays one of the biggest scrapbooking labels that brings together different scrapbooking brands, including some of our favourites:
- Crate Paper: their scrapbooking collections are famous for their beautiful designs, and you can find different themes such as Christmas or Halloween as well as more classic ones that you can adapt to any project.
- Heidi Swapp: the American designer has her scrapbooking brand under the American Crafts umbrella and is a worldwide success with her scrapbooking collections, her popular Memory Planner line, and her famous Minc machine.
- Kelly Creates Lettering: if you practise lettering, this brand will surely ring a bell if not, if you want to get into the world of writing everything beautifully, memorize this name because from now on you will be hearing it a lot. In addition to markers, pens, or papers for lettering, they offer stickers, washi tapes, or stamps, always with their hallmark, lettering, as the protagonist of their designs.
- Project Life: Project Life is currently on the rise, perhaps because of the speed with which it allows you to create our scrapbooks. The Project Life brand offers all the materials you need to carry out your projects:
- We R Memory Keepers: yes, one of our favourite scrapbooking brands is one of the companies managed by American Crafts. This brand is perhaps the biggest reference for scrapbooking tools.
We R Memory Keepers
As we mentioned, We R Memory Keepers is one of the best-known scrapbooking brands, so it deserved its section here. It is a brand that was born more than 100 years ago as a bookbinding business. Nowadays, it has become a benchmark in the world of scrapbooking due to the tools and machines it offers in its catalogue. Many of the most popular scrapbooking tools come from this brand, such as the famous Crop-A-Dile, the Corner Chomper, or its Cinch binding machines. We could also talk about their numerous punches, scrapbooking albums, organization tools, and die-cutting tools. But in addition to these basic tools, the brand often surprises with other more special machines, such as the Fuse Tool, a must-have for Project Life, the Button Press, the Mold Press, or the PrintMaker.
Echo Park
If you are looking for a paper collection with matching accessories, Echo Park is the brand for you. Their catalogue includes collections with many themes: Christmas, kids, summer, or Halloween among many others, although they also offer more versatile themes that you can adapt to many projects. The best thing about their collections is the large number of products that go with them: stickers, puffy stickers, enamel dots, special papers, stencils, stamps, die-cuts, or dies are some elements included in their collections. This way, it is very easy to find accessories to match the project you are working on.
Cricut
The Cricut brand provides you with the best cutting plotters, and has also a wide variety of vinyls. Thanks to this, we will be able to personalize all our projects in a just a few minutes. In addition to the different machines that allow us to cut and emboss, you can find different lines of vinyl: permanent, with glitter, with metallic finishes, and special product lines such as Infusible Ink, which will allow the designs to be much more long-lasting and with greater colour definition.
Happy Planner
If you are interested in the planner world, Happy Planner by Me & My Big Ideas is one of the reference brands. Their planners are the Happy Planner and have a disc ring system that makes adding, deleting, or moving sheets of the planner very simple and quick. Available in different sizes, Classic, Skinny Classic, Mini, Skinny Mini, and Big, they also offer different formats inside: vertical, horizontal, dashboard, hourly, monthly. It also has different collections dedicated to certain aspects of life to help and motivate you to achieve your goals. Thus, there is a special collection for teachers, a fitness section, and others focused on our wellbeing and faith. In addition, there are different accessories to personalize your diaries to the maximum: stickers with different themes, pockets, dividers, extra pages with themes, and, of course, disc rings in different sizes and colours. Without a doubt, Happy Planner is a true referent in the planner world.
Lawn Fawn
This brand is known for its wide range of stamps and dies, many of them can be combined to make projects with a very professional finish. In the Lawn Fawn catalogue you can find a collection of stamps with hundreds of different themes, always finding the perfect one for every occasion: Christmas, summer, autumn, Thanksgiving, a picnic, holidays, baking..., all of them with a great quality that will make them usable for years.
Ranger
Perhaps the product most worth highlighting in the RangerĀ catalogue is their famous Distress Inks. They are available in different formats in a variety of finishes and there are currently 65 colours in their catalogue, a wide range of colours for us to choose from to find the perfect colour. These inks leave an aged effect and are perfect for smudging or making gradients. Some of their most regular collaborators are famous designers such as Tim Holtz, Dyan Reaveley, Simon Hurley, and Dina Wakley, who collaborate by adding ink colours or illustrations for products such as stamps or stencils.
Sizzix
There is probably not a person whose hobby is scrapbooking that doesn't own a Sizzix machine, or at least very few. Although they also have an extensive collection of dies of all kinds, the brand is especially famous for its die-cutting machines. There are different types of machines: you can find the Big Shot, one of the most popular, or the Sidekick, a much smaller die-cutting machine. Perfect to have on hand or to take with you to a workshop.
Lora Bailora
This Spanish brand is a benchmark in the national and European markets. Lora Bailora found a niche in the Spanish market when it began to design products with Spanish phrases, something that had been in demand for some time. Its stamps were a great success, and little by little it began to expand its range of products, achieving great success in our country and beyond. For this reason, all their collections are highly anticipated and prove to be a great success. Within its catalogue you can find collections with different themes that will be a great ally to decorate all your projects: Christmas, summer, newborn designs... all of them with a lot of accessories that will help you to decorate your projects easily and quickly.
Stamperia
Stamperia is a scrapbooking company founded in 1995 in Italy. Its shabby-chic style is very recognizable for its illustrations, colours, and colour combinations. Designers such as Cristina Radovan, Sara Alcobendas, Alda Judite, Antonis Tzanidakis, and Dorota Kotowicz are part of the team of designers of the Italian brand who, each with their style, maintain that distinctive and characteristic touch of the brand. In addition to its scrapbooking collections, Stamperia has in its catalogue more than 2000 different products, all of them of great quality. You can find scrapbooking, decoupage, Mixed Media, or Home Decor items.
Whether it's a very specific stamp design, a die-cutting tool, inks, scissors, double-sided tapes, a nice collection of papers... whatever it is, these brands offer you a wide catalogue with all the materials you may need for your projects. You can find all these brands on our website, see you in the next post!
