How to get started scrapbooking ?

[vaknitter]

I typically put my pictures in Hallmark albums and it is just pictures - no stickers etc etc. Well, when I got married a friend talked me into buying all this scrapbooking stuff to put engagement, honeymoon, and wedding pictures in as a regular album as I have always done would be tooo boring. Then she got married, got a new job, moved further away from me, and her young daughter got pregnant. Needless to say we do not get to see each other much anymore so 2 yrs later I have all this scrapbooking stuff sitting in a closet. I am not creative (very good at following directions though) so does anyone have any suggestions and where and how to start scrapbooking? Or would anyone like to buy a lot of scrapbooking stuff and I will go buy more Hallmark albums?