Scrapbooking

Ribbon is easy to glue and attach. Heat embossing uses powders that are melted on paper to create a raised image.

Pictures really are worth a thousand words. Now armed with over one hundred helpful hints, ideas, and techniques...

it's time to let your creativity and imagination take over. Feathers Feathers make exotic and interesting embellishments and borders.

Like road, state, or geographical maps, news clippings, leaves, fabric, etc. These chemicals can easily get on your scrapbook paper, ribbons, and whatever else is near it.

A nice bow or other embellishment can also be added onto the outside of these windows to add an elegant touch to the window. There are plenty of other dye's out there, like Rit, that create great looking colors, but they are mostly quite acidic.

13. For more control, use a dry marker as a paintbrush.

Dry embossing is a method which uses a burnisher and template to raise the surface of the paper. This dye can be used to create a funky pattern on fabric.

This technique creates a three-dimensional artistic look. If you need to, redampen the edge and remove more material, little by little.

Smudging pencil is easier and gives a little bit more control. This strong and versatile blade allows you to cut almost anything into any shape.

61. These can add a playful, exotic, or outdoor feel to your scrapbook.

Textured paper can also be used as a backgrounds or border to give your page an interesting fresh look. Try crumpling and crumpling other types of paper, they may become cloth-like as well.

Heat embossing uses powders that are melted on paper to create a raised image. Then, just write over the sticker.

To save these creations, without the macaroni and glitter mess, simply scan and print your child's creations for use in your next scrapbook. To do the wax paper technique, cut a piece of wax paper slightly larger that the area you are working with.

Photo Twin is available at most local scrapbooking supply stores. This appearance creates a hardening or masculine effect to scrapbook pages.

Look at your page. Color the back of the vellum with a soft color of ink.

You'll also want to be sure the fabric won't bleed its color to nearby items. You can of course create one of any depth, height, and width, and I recommend creating these with stiff cardstock.

Buttons Buttons can be added to pop up windows for effect or to educational scrapbooks as a learning device. For a milder tear, crease the paper by folding it and tear along the crease.

This is time consuming and frustrating, so the best solution is to reduce static electricity before you add the powder or glitter by simply placing a dryer sheet on top of the page before you work, and then spray the powder and glitter with archival spray to keep it in place. Brush off the excess powder with a brush.

Basically, paint your photograph with the crystal lacquer and let it dry. Curled Edges For a unique look to your background and borders, curl the edges of your border and background pages.

Lace requires a bit more patience and much less glue. Photographs Nearly all, if not all, scrapbooks will contain photographs.

Alternately, for acid-free and lignin-free "homemade" paper, you can just soak a piece of acid-free and lignin-free cardstock in water. 82.

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Matching colors add to the continuity of the color scheme. Many of these items can be downloaded or printed for free.

25. Once set, these items can be painted with acrylic paint.

Hand Prints The sweetest accents to a child's scrapbook page are handprints. " 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.

These chemicals can easily get on your scrapbook paper, ribbons, and whatever else is near it. However, you can also place items in object patterns such as mountains, trains, or Christmas trees.

You can also group items into formal or informal categories such as similar colors, events, activities, individuals, or families. You can use virtually any graphic on the Internet for any non-commercial project.

Textured paper can be used to highlight focus items on your scrapbook page. Try crumpling and crumpling other types of paper, they may become cloth-like as well.

Let it completely dry over night. You don't want any of the dried gunk on it, just the stains it leaves.

Then, rinse the material under lukewarm water and set to dry. Other Types of Paper There are various types of paper that can be used for backgrounds or journal entries for various effects.

Simply, cut the foam tape into whatever shape and size you want. Then, twist the petals together where you pinched them.

What Do I Need to Start Scrapbooking? Puzzle pieces give a creative and playful look to children's art and educational scrapbooks.

Title Don't forget to create a title for your scrapbook page. Keep in mind, however, that feathers are not acid-free, nor do they preserve well at all.

Popcorn Garlands Add popcorn garlands to your Christmas scrapbook pages. For a bold tear, just have at it.

They also have a wide variety of embossed paper. When the paper is fully dried, it should have all sorts of neat looking stains.

Lignin-free and acid-free products come in virtually any color and texture. You can make your own customized paper of any color and texture you want.

You can also create glue lines. Furthermore, these embellishments can be used to focus on a certain photograph or memento.