Scrapbooking

The first thing to avoid is paper that is not lignin-free. Smudging pencil is easier and gives a little bit more control.

They are a paper store specifically for scrapbooking, so you know they are good. The design you create depends only upon your creativity and talent.

19. You may want to add journals describing the day to day life of your baby or your child's accomplishments.

The design you create depends only upon your creativity and talent. The alternative is to make faux typewriter keys.

In this way, pockets can be virtually any texture, color, and weave to suit your required needs. 62.

Stained glass is available at most craft stores. In Conclusion...

27. Woven Backgrounds A woven background can create a natural feel or color to your scrapbook page.

Newspaper clippings of birth announcements, team photographs, or favorite celebrities add a personal touch to scrapbook pages. The wax acts as a resistant to the ink, forming a textured look.

Creating this effect is easy. Therefore, yellowing and brittleness of the newspaper paper will eventually occur.

This has become a huge thing, actually. Then, you need to simplify your page a bit and increase the spacing between objects.

Next, place the fabric you want dyed into the Kool-Aid for a few minutes. Hemp Hemp can be used for a number of purposes in scrapbooking.

Quickly and easily you have another copy of your baby announcement, recipe, or calendar. Title Don't forget to create a title for your scrapbook page.

Then, glue individual popcorns together to make garlands. Simply add, fold, or paste additional sheets of paper into your design for the desired effect.

Instead of reinventing the wheel, I'm just going to direct you to the best resource I know of for making homemade paper. Like for babies there are mini baby clothes, mini rattles, mini baby blocks, etc.

Though adding a title might seem to be obvious or unimportant, a title defines the whole basis of your scrapbook page. Patterned Paper Patterned paper can be used for backgrounds, borders, and embellishments.

Heck, you can even scan an entire finished scrapbook page, print it out and have copies of it to give away. One way to attach metal charms is by sewing the charms directly onto your page with thread or embroidery cotton.

Is your page bare? Next, wipe the brush back and forth on a paper towel to remove most of the paint.

Unfortunately, the market has not caught up to this and there is no inexpensive and accurate way to test the acidity of fabric. You can place your items in a formal chronological order.

The high-tech solution to your photograph woes is to use modern computer programs such as Adobe Photoshop (expensive, but very good), Paint Shop Pro (less expensive and still very good), and Photo Editor (often free with printers, scanners or cameras). Using a metallic rub, you can change or enhance the color of the metal to add a dramatic touch to your scrapbook page.

A beaded Hawaiian Lei is made by stringing large and small beads onto a string of embroidery cotton. Your middle shade of paper will be the base for your design, while the darker shade will be used as the shadow.

Paint strips are available free for the taking in nearly any paint department. Just remember that markers are permanent.

You take a clear or white crayon, draw a pattern, write words, create a background, and then color over the design element with Lumiere, walnut ink, water color, India ink wash, etc. These effects can be much more dramatic than dry embossing.

To clean up, simply brush away the remaining glitter once the object is completely dried and be sure to spray the glitter with Archival Mist to further secure it in place. As the name of this book suggests, there are a total of 100 techniques.

Vellum is available in both acidic and non-acidic forms. Embroidery Cotton Embroidery cotton (a heavy-duty, high-quality type of thread) can be used in a number of interesting scrapbooking ways.

Fabric can be used as a background or as a border to enhance dimension and texture to your scrapbook. Take any color of cardstock you like and drip ketchup, mustard, sour cream, mud, coffee, coffee grinds, Kool-Aid, anything really, and then let it sit in the sun for 6-8 hours.

Then, smudge the color onto the page. 27.

Be aware, however, that puzzle pieces are generally not lignin-free and acid-free. Alternately, make the mark into an interesting squiggle or doodle.

Rubber Stamping Rubber stamps dipped in acid-free ink can be used to create various embellishments. Lignin is a stiff component of a plant that quite literally holds it together.

You can even get rubber stamps custom made after your own handwriting. These shapes can add to the impact of the themes.

Regular mounting tape is fine for buttons and bottle caps, but when it come to mounting photos you need to use special photo mounting tape which is completely acid-free. Then, using a sponge-tip applicator, apply bronze or rusty color metallic rub on.

This can be glued very easily. Due to these new techniques and tools, the uses of scrapbooking have expanded drastically.

For instance, rice paper is a fine paper that can add elegance to a scrapbook page. Background colors can be matched, coordinated, or contrasted with the colors in your photographs, mementos, or embellishments.

Next, using watercolor pencils and a wet paintbrush thoroughly coat the tissue paper. Do you also remember all of your hard work falling apart two months later?

This method works well on scrapbooks with fabric backgrounds. 62.

Depending on what your scrapbooking plan is, those swatches might work great. It may also be used to highlight a mechanical or metal working theme.

Here is my suggestion: this may seem odd, but try taste testing fabric to check for acidity. To attach fur, simply cut out the desired shape.

Set the item aside to dry. The flowing nature of both materials encourages a touch of softness and elegance.