Scrapbooking

Next, place a picture on top of the carbon paper. Remember, you can continue removing it, but you can't add it back!

Further, unlike real flowers, fabric flowers have a very long life span. Textured paper can also be used as a backgrounds or border to give your page an interesting fresh look.

Collages create great funky scrapbook pages. This curled edge can then be left as is, chalked, or inked for a more dramatic effect.

Paint strips are available free for the taking in nearly any paint department. The basic idea is to draw on the photograph with these pens to create custom tints.

This paper can either match, compliment, or contrast your background color. Once the display is set, start permanently attaching the collage to the background.

Puzzle Pieces Puzzle pieces make playful embellishments and borders. Simply, roll out a small ball of the clay.

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You can use virtually any graphic on the Internet for any non-commercial project. 43.

This presents a feel of as time goes by. Then just make sure that the piece fabric lines up with where ever it is being printed.

Black ink brushed over orange crayon will create a great Halloween setting. 26.

To save these creations, without the macaroni and glitter mess, simply scan and print your child's creations for use in your next scrapbook. When finished, the shrink art becomes a solid plastic piece with your custom artwork on it.

Are your embellishments drawing the focus away from your mementos? Emboss clear.

Paper Mojo has all kinds of paper: banana paper, rice paper, embossed, metallic, pearlescent, and tons more. Emboss clear.

To clean these marker paintbrushes, simply wipe with a damp cloth. Are your embellishments drawing the focus away from your mementos?

100. One of the most creative pockets I've seen in a scrapbook was a back pocket cut out of an old pair of jeans.

These quick and less messy options include glue dots, two-sided tape, Xyron, acid-free photo tabs, and polypropylene corners. 65.

Furthermore, tags need not be made of paper. This appearance creates a hardening or masculine effect to scrapbook pages.

Place your object or photograph on top of this middle section. Mosaics stretch out photographs into an artistic rendition of the original photograph.

Many people like to laminate the newspaper clipping. Be aware though, not all fabrics are acid-free.

This is a very elegant touch on gift scrapbooks or invitations. 42.

Silk actually goes through an acid bath during the manufacturing process, as well as many tie-dyed fabrics. Some interesting wood like materials include bamboo, popsicle sticks, and pieces of wood.

You might make a cake pattern for you niece the pastry cook. Glue dots and glue pens are fairly mess free and stick to almost anything made of paper or fiber.

The basic idea is to draw on the photograph with these pens to create custom tints. Nonetheless, there are a few brands of markers (like Markers Pigma and Color Workshop Blo Pens) available in craft and office supply stores that do not smudge or bleed.

We hope that you will give it a try! In some more formal themes tearing appears unprofessional.

Both types are available at most craft stores. Be aware though, not all fabrics are acid-free.

You may also choose to lay the items out in a standard recipe or calendar layout. You shouldn't use real popcorn, especially if it is butter coated.

Title Don't forget to create a title for your scrapbook page. Simply wrap a ready-made button with the paper.

If you do use instant photographs in your scrapbooks, I would recommend that you don't. Conversely, papyrus is a coarse almost wood like paper creating an exotic feel to a scrapbook page.

Popcorn Garlands Add popcorn garlands to your Christmas scrapbook pages. Shrink Paper Shrink art can add an abstract or child like feel to your photographs or scrapbook pages.

12. Never glue as you go!

In this way, charms can be added to memento, graduation, or gift scrapbooks to create a personalized feeling to the page. Just try to make sure that no photos directly touch fabric, and if you need them to overlap, make sure there is a layer of paper between the two.

There are great ways to make a professionally done scrapbook, and plenty of tools to help make it easy. Photographs Nearly all, if not all, scrapbooks will contain photographs.

Feathers add an air of softness. This method would be the easiest.

A nice shape for a Christmas scrapbook is a Christmas tree. Be aware, however, that some of these media alternates are extremely difficult to work with, break easily, and may not preserve well.

You can even get rubber stamps custom made after your own handwriting. Magnetic sheets are best used in children's educational scrapbooks or other scrapbooks that will be used and reused several times.

87. Place a piece of pain paper on top of the fabric and iron where the fabric is.

The title instantly tells the viewer what your page is all about. Bazzill paper is great for this purpose.