When it comes to scrapbooking supplies, you may think that an album, pages, paper, and adhesives would be enough for a basic scrapbook set. In reality, however, what I like to call your scrapbook arsenal is not complete without page protectors. Let’s take a look at all the things that make page protectors an indispensable part of the scrapbooking hobby.
Obviously, protecting your scrapbooking pages is one of the key reasons that smart scrapbookers use page protectors on their work. Spills and tears are two big reasons that page protectors are important for your album. What you may not think of immediately is how damaging touching your scrapbook pages can be over time. Dirt and oils that naturally occur on hands are devastating to paper and photographs.
Despite their name, page protectors do more than protect. You can also use your page protectors creatively. If you’ve ever wanted to show off things like seeds from a garden or sand from a beech and didn’t want to glue each on, a handy way to display them is by using a page protector to fashion a shaker box. You can display just about anything like that easily and affordably by having a some page protectors at hand and ready to do your bidding.
Page protectors can also ensure that you don’t have to deal with troublesome dust after a few years. Dust is a natural enemy of scrapbook components, but the problem can be exacerbated if you have any adhesive residue on the pages. If you use page protectors faithfully, residue from removable or repositionable adhesive won’t collect dust.
Page protectors truly are the unsung heroes of the scrapbooking process. And since they’re so affordable if I were you, I wouldn’t try to scrapbook without them.
