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Posted By: davidcycleback

If it's little, it's fair to call it a scrap. As Tom notes, most scraps are embossed and glossy, but I don't think all have to be. There are bigger die-cuts, about the size of trade cards, many not glossy or embossed. These are in the same league with scraps, collected and pasted into albums like scraps. Collectors will often call the big ones die-cuts, but I'm sure some call them scraps. Scraps wasn't a brand name, but a nickname ("scrap of paper") for a type of usually little die-cut pieces that kids collected and often pasted into albums. If something's little, die cut, kid's themed and came from a 1880s album, that's almost the definition of a scrap.