Scrapbooking

5. Tags Yep, they are just like they sound: a various shaped slip of paper or other material to add extra text… Usually… I mean, this is how they are usually used, but like anything else in scrapbooking: be creative!

Alternately, you can use embroidery cotton to tie the feather in place. Hemp Hemp can be used for a number of purposes in scrapbooking.

This gives the copper red, orange, and purple tones. This adds a handicraft or outdoor feeling to your scrapbook.

Double stick foam tape is available at most craft stores in various colors and thicknesses. Be creative.

Items can also be placed into random groups, abstract shapes, or collages. This appearance creates a hardening or masculine effect to scrapbook pages.

Use your imagination and creativity. Magnifying Marbles Glass marbles add a unique magnifying effect to letters or photographs under them.

Magnetic Sheets Magnetic sheets and magnetized photo albums can be used as backgrounds. Generally, these Leis are not made with complex patterns, but remain very simple.

Its purpose is to bind the cells of plants together and is quite literally what gives wood its strength. These items can be placed in any order or pattern.

The first thing to avoid is paper that is not lignin-free. Acrylic Paint Acrylic paint can be use to draw and paint embellishments or create accents around focus objects.

Fabric often makes a page look great if used as the entire background. Drybrushing Drybrushing is a technique used to highlight or shade objects or areas of a scrapbook page.

7. Shrink art paper is available at your local craft store.

Vellum can be used to create a slight shadow or shade change to background or embellishment colors. Just mix 1 packet of Kool-Aid per quart of water in a sauce pan and bring to a simmer.

This presents a feel of as time goes by. Curled Edges For a unique look to your background and borders, curl the edges of your border and background pages.

Also keep a sharp eye out for deals in second hand stores and garage sales. Individual fibers can be used to highlight focus on certain items or used to add dimension to artwork or drawings.

Here is another FUN way to age paper. Alternately, use embroidery cotton to tie the flower or a bunch of flowers into the appropriate place on your scrapbook.

You could also keep the entire page in a Mylar page protector. By far, the best resource for all sorts of textured paper is Paper Mojo.

Some of the best sanity savers include glue dots, glue pens, Xyron adhesives, and two-sided tape. Furthermore, copper is fairly easy to work with and cut into various shapes.

The philosophy is to start you off with the techniques that create the foundation professionals use to make their scrapbooks and use those to lead into more advanced techniques. Using a metallic rub, you can change or enhance the color of the metal to add a dramatic touch to your scrapbook page.

For a bold tear, just have at it. However, crystal lacquer looks especially nice on more formal gift scrapbooks.

Pre-made tags are available at most craft or office supply stores. Often plain white backgrounds look rather boring and dull.

Before you actually stick that sticker, cut it out and lay it down where you would like it to go to make sure it looks good before placing it, because most stickers do not unstick very well if you make a mistake or change your mind. 89.

Acrylic paints come in every imaginable color and are available at most craft and office supply stores. 24.

This creates a softened look suitable for baby and grandparent scrapbooks. Preservation Once you spend your precious time and energy creating a scrapbook, make sure it lasts!

Fold out your flower petals and secure to your scrapbook page. They usually come in red and have a neato symbol imprinted in to the wax.

Most regular glues do not work on metal. This will be one petal.

This adds a handicraft or outdoor feeling to your scrapbook. 92.

These effects can be much more dramatic than dry embossing. Shrink art is easy to use.

22. Fraying Fraying can create extremely interesting and artistic border accents.

61. Ribbon and lace are especially popular in gift and feminine scrapbooks.

Coordinated colors add depth to scrapbook pages. You can do this with a lot of different things.

Silver and Gold Accents Beautiful silver and gold accents make a wonderful touch to lettering or tags on your scrapbook page. It is stronger than traditional sewing thread, so it will last a very long time and comes in a wide variety of colors.

These are available an amazing variety. However, scrapbooking techniques and tools have matured substantially.

You can only cover it up or try to incorporate it somehow. Adding buttons to a scrapbook page can as simple as adding a ready-made button.

Like road, state, or geographical maps, news clippings, leaves, fabric, etc. To attach fur, simply cut out the desired shape.

These significant items are available in virtually all craft stores. Mosaics stretch out photographs into an artistic rendition of the original photograph.

Shrink art is easy to use. One of the most creative pockets I've seen in a scrapbook was a back pocket cut out of an old pair of jeans.

If you don't than glitter will eventually comes loose, make a mess and scratch your photographs. There are several ways to attach items to your scrapbook page that are much better than glue sticks.