Scrap 2 Relax was established, after many months of research and planning, on 1 April 2008 and commenced trading on 12 May 2008 in our shop located at 139 Princes Way, Drouin, West Gippsland in Victoria, Australia.

We are a scrapbooking and card making supplies shop offering a wide range of products including papers, cardstock, albums, 12x12 frames, adhesives, stickers, rub-on’s, chipboard, stamping, embellishments, cards, tools, totes, ink pads, gift vouchers and lots lots more. If we haven’t got what you are looking for, we will endeavour to locate it for you.

Scrap 2 Relax has established a great Design Team and offer classes in scrapbooking, card making, off the page, papercraft, kids classes, special projcts and more. We also offer Demo Days and Weekend Retreats. Please visit our classes diary page on this website for more information.

To keep up to date with what’s happening, subscribe to our regular email updates through the contact us page on this website.

Our shop front trading hours are:
Monday to Friday 9.30 - 5.00pm
Saturday 9.00am - 2.00pm
Sunday & Public Holidays - closed

Scrap 2 Relax offers SALE DAYS four times a year. Information on upcoming SALE DAYS can be found under Conact Us page on this website.

www.scrap2relax.com.au – is always open (including 24 hour online shopping)

We are very excited to be able to bring scrapbooking to Drouin, West Gippsland and the internet.

Happy scrapbooking and card making.

Updated: 31 August 2010

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HISTORY OF SCRAPBOOKING
In ancient Greece hypomnemata were a form of notebook for recording one's own copies of what one had heard, read, or thought that might be worth remembering. There is little evidence in the archaeological and historical record that this practice was undertaken anywhere else previously. That one had to make one's own hand-written copies of what someone else had written reflected the expense of hiring a scribe to do so. More recently commonplace books reflected the same practice. Only with the availability of abundant printed material is it likely that the content of such books shifted away from one's own hand-writing or drawings or those of one's family members toward commercially available printed material.

Scrapbooking in its earliest form was a way to blend ephemera, memorabilia collections and journaling. People have been scrapbooking since printed material became available to the average person. Some of the earliest and most famous American scrapbookers include Thomas Jefferson and Mark Twain

Scrapbooking with photographs has been around since photos became available to ordinary people. Old scrapbooks tended to have photos mounted with photomount corners and perhaps notations of who was in a photo or where and when it was taken. They often included bits of memorabilia like newspaper clippings, letters, etc. Modern scrapbooking has evolved into creating attractive displays of photos, text, journaling and memorabilia