At some point in your scrapbooking career you will find a need to use a pen. When you come to this point you need to remember that you cannot use any old pen. As with other things that you use on your scrapbooking page you need to make sure it is acid and lignin free or it might cause deterioration and fading in your photographs and scrapbooking pages.
There are a few different types of scrapbooking pens that you might want to try out. They include things like gels pens, glitter gel pens, watercolour pens, photo markers, red eye pens, ball point pens, calligraphy pens, felt tip pen and the list goes on.
When you go shopping for scrapbooking pens you need to think about what you need the scrapbooking pen or pens for. You may need the scrapbooking pen for journaling, for writing titles, adding colour to embellishments and the list goes on. The main type of pen I use is gel pens. I find these types of pens to be a very versatile scrapbooking pen. I use these scrapbooking pens to add words, titles and journaling to my pages. Gel pens are also great for adding doodles to your page.
Gel Scrapbooking Pens
Gel Scrapbooking Pens
Gel Scrapbooking Pens
Most scrapbooking shops have a range of gel scrapbooking pens. You can buy metallic gel scrapbooking pens, glitter gel scrapbooking pens, opalescent gel scrapbooking pens and normal gel scrapbooking pens. You can buy gel scrapbooking pens in a range of colours, including pastel colours.
Felt tip pens
Felt Tip Scrapbooking Pens
Many avid scrapbookers use felt tip pens. A felt tip pen has its own ink source and come in a wide variety of tips, point sizes and colours. Fine tipped felt pens are great for small letter size journaling and doodling. The bigger tips are great for writing big titles.
Red Eye Pen
Many scrapbookers use red eye pens. I don’t personally use them as I print my photos out on my own printer and I fix the photos digitally beforehand. But if you still get you photos printed at a shop then a red eye pen can be a very useful tool. There is nothing worse than getting your photos back only to find they look perfect bar the red eyes someone has. This pen can solve that problem. You can get acid free red eye pens which mean they are photo safe and fine to use in your scrapbooking album. You can buy red eye pens with duel tips which mean they have a fine and a medium tip which is great for different photos.
Calligraphy Scrapbooking Pens
Some scrapbookers like to add an extra bit to their pages in writing and doodling creatively with calligraphy scrapbooking pens. These pens can be used to creating journaling, design borders, lettering on your pages and much much more. These calligraphy scrapbooking pens come in a wide variety of pen tips, colours and shapes. This type of scrapbooking pen can be purchased individually are in sets of colours and ink types.