Scissors
One good advice is to have some sharp scissors that you only use for scrapbooking. Begin with regular straight scissors, covering most basic needs.
- Long straight edge shafts, are useful scrapbooking tools when you need to cut long sheets of eg cardstock and freehand paper such as customizing photos.
- Narrow scissors, work best to cut out detailed decorations.
- Decorative-edge scissors, ideal for cutting photo mats or anything else you want to give a more hugged look. These scissors are not necessary scrapbooking tools for a novice and bass needs, but they are fun to use occasionally! Use them to cut cardstock into background photos for photos.
- Curved scissors (with curved / bent tip), superb for precision cutting, such as cutting out small details from magazines.