Scrapbooking

Pre-rolled quills and/or precut quilling paper are available in specialty craft stores. Photographs Nearly all, if not all, scrapbooks will contain photographs.

77. Then, stack the petal on top of each other and then pinch on end of them to make a teardrop shop.

10. Alternately, make the mark into an interesting squiggle or doodle.

These items can be placed in any order or pattern. Shapes also make interesting placement patterns.

84. Next, set a circle concho over the letters.

For instance, chronological order might be useful for an anniversary scrapbook. You may want to just write captions below the pictures.

Debossing is the opposite of embossing. The first thing to avoid is paper that is not lignin-free.

This scrapbook technique looks especially nice when the book jacket is the reader's favorite book or author, adding a wonderful personalized touch. pioneerthinking.

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To create this frosted charm look, sprinkle embossing powder and glitter on the metal charms and heat. However, by using hinges, you can make more permanent and stronger pop up windows made of wood.

All you have to do now is let your creativity flow. Then, paste these marbles, using clear drying glue, on top of writing or an embellishment that you want magnified.

Feel free to use crayons other than clear or white as well. Click here to go to Paper Mojo.

Markers A marker is a seeming obvious tool for writing and embellishing on scrapbook pages. To paint tissue paper, punch or tear bits of tissue paper into various shapes.

Lignin is a substance found naturally in plants. With a little practice, smudging can create a hazy or smoky effect.

92. Flowers can be placed whole, in bunches with other flowers, as petals, or punched into various shapes.

" To manually change a distracting or cluttered background of a photo, simply cut out the background and replace it with a with a new paper background; this allows the eye to focus on the people instead of the clutter behind them. On the other photograph draw and cut along evenly spaced horizontal lines.

To reduce shifting of the photographs as you select an appropriate collage design, place temporary tape on each photograph or newspaper clipping. Your middle shade of paper will be the base for your design, while the darker shade will be used as the shadow.

Matching colors add to the continuity of the color scheme. Furthermore, tags need not be made of paper.

Common shapes include circles, squares, hearts, and stars. These items can then be glued onto your background or borders.

Just gently squeeze the liquid onto or around the desired image or form, let it dry, apply heat (often a hair dryer on high and held close can work), and the liquid appliqué will puff up to create a 3 dimensional line or design. Beads, microbeads, and necklaces can be attached using two-sided tape or Xyron adhesive.

Simply, tear, cut or punch shapes and designs out of the darker and lighter colors and place them on the middle colored background. Carefully cropped and sized photographs, on the other hand, enhances the overall look and feel of your scrapbook.

Glitter Glitter can add a wonderful sparkle to your borders and fonts. Weaving Photographs For more dramatic results from your photographs, try weaving two copies of the same photograph together.

Now, you've pretty much made this piece of paper the "bad apple" of your scrapbook, as it will age faster than normal and aid the decomposition of things it touches. Xyron adhesives and two-sided tape works for those larger jobs and work on almost any item type.

Real fur decomposes very quickly and will ruin your scrapbook in a hurry. Coordinated colors add depth to scrapbook pages.

89. For instance, a logical shape for a wedding or Valentines Day scrapbook is a heart.

If you don't than glitter will eventually comes loose, make a mess and scratch your photographs. For a milder tear, crease the paper by folding it and tear along the crease.

Both acid and lignin accelerate photo fading and general deterioration. However, by using hinges, you can make more permanent and stronger pop up windows made of wood.

To make embossed foil, place a piece of carbon paper on top of the foil. Lace requires a bit more patience and much less glue.

Alternately, make the mark into an interesting squiggle or doodle. Who is the scrapbook about?

Be sure to remove an excess dried gunk that might be on the paper by rubbing it with a rag. 43.

Heck, you can even scan an entire finished scrapbook page, print it out and have copies of it to give away. Wax Pencils Another important writing implement for scrapbooking is a wax pencil.

Conversely, papyrus is a coarse almost wood like paper creating an exotic feel to a scrapbook page. Some of the most interesting tags are made from fabric, wood, and other odds and ends found around the house.

Stickers can be used for captions, thought bubbles, to hide mistakes, or as embellishments. Then, paste the fake fur onto your scrapbooking page or onto an object.

87. Your nephew will probably appreciate a scrapbook with photographs, poems, journals, and more masculine embellishments.

Then cover the item in a clear embossing powder and heat. There are several different methods of embossing.

Local copy shops can provide this service for you at a very reasonable price. Cutting and Cropping Often photographs aren't quite the right shape and size, or the photographic image is improperly centered.

20. Fabric Flowers Fabric flowers make great embellishments on scrapbook pages.