Scrapbooking

Make a wire loop. Color Color coordination and contrast will highlight and accent your scrapbook.

You can use virtually any graphic on the Internet for any non-commercial project. Rubber stamps can be used to create cute images for children's and grandparents scrapbooks.

Next, adhere a letter to one side of a Pop-Up Glue Dot, and then adhere the Pp-Up Glue Dot in your scrapbook. 28.

For instance, pictures of your sweetheart can be punched into heart shapes to add to the romantic type of love. The best way to preserve them and your scrapbook is to spray them with a healthy coat of protectant, like Archival Mist.

Paper with various themes and patterns is widely available. In this way, pockets can be virtually any texture, color, and weave to suit your required needs.

By far, the best resource for all sorts of patterned paper is Paper Mojo. What Do I Need to Start Scrapbooking?

Embossing Embossing is the art of adding dimension to card stock, metal, and vellum. They usually come in red and have a neato symbol imprinted in to the wax.

Therefore, it is completely up you the order you wish to place your items and embellishments. Ribbon and lace are especially popular in gift and feminine scrapbooks.

Alternately, make the mark into an interesting squiggle or doodle. Then go to your favorite grocery store and get a roll of wax paper.

For more control, use a dry marker as a paintbrush. Typewriter keys create an added personal touch to scrapbooks for secretaries, writers, and students.

All you have to do now is let your creativity flow. This effect can be used to create a relaxed, outdoorsy feel to your scrapbook page.

Copper, aluminum and other metal sheets can be found at many craft stores, and with a nice sharp pair of snips they can be cut easier than you would think. To create a curled look, simply wet one edge of the border or background paper.

You can place everything in the center of your page, place a single focus item in the center, or divide the page into sections adding items to each section. To do this, just place a dryer sheet on top of the page before you begin working.

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Paper Mojo has all kinds of paper: banana paper, rice paper, embossed, metallic, pearlescent, and tons more. Beads can be added abstractly to a children's scrapbook for a child-like look or carefully placed to make homey titles or artistic designs.

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Various glues and affixing options are also available. Textured paper can be used to highlight focus items on your scrapbook page.

For a fine tear, crease the paper and then lick the crease (or you can use a damp sponge). In some more formal themes tearing appears unprofessional.

Thus, body art rhinestones are easy to place directly onto scrapbook pages. Coordinated colors add depth to scrapbook pages.

37. To achieve this technique, first you need two copies of the same photo.

Quilling creates an exotic handicraft look to scrapbooks. These additions can be used to increase the busyness and overwhelming nature of the collage, or reduce the effect slightly by distracting the focus away from the collage.

Fraying looks especially good in children's scrapbooks, as well as pages for your more creative and imaginative friends. Then, using a small paintbrush, paint this piece of vellum with gold or silver leaf.

So many styles, colors, textures, and visual text effects are possible - it is only limited by your imagination. Liquid Appliqué Liquid appliqué can be use to draw and paint embellishments or create accents around focus objects.

Once this hardens it will look just like a typewriter key. Polymer Molds To create great three-dimensional items of virtually any shape and size use polymer molds.

46. This might be good for a young adult or college student scrapbook.

Open them again. Fabric Fabric can be used in many ways to enhance scrapbook pages.

Next, adhere a letter to one side of a Pop-Up Glue Dot, and then adhere the Pp-Up Glue Dot in your scrapbook. Most punches are made of die cast steel.

You create the frame, fill it in with different colored plastic beads and then bake it. The tear will stay with the crease very well.

When you cut the images or letters out and turn them over, the letters have a very pretty, muted, chalk-like appearance. The best solution is scanning the art and using a picture of it for the scrapbook.

To make a thicker item, just add more pulp to each mold. 86.

Lighter shades act as highlights. The best thing about scrapbooking is that although there are a plethora of scrapbooking supplies available on the market, you really don't need a lot to make your very first scrapbook.

Is your page uninteresting and colorless? Once the display is set, start permanently attaching the collage to the background.

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The answers to these three questions are all factors in selecting an appropriate theme. Tarnishing and Untarnishing Copper Copper, tarnish or untarnished, adds a unique metallic look to your scrapbook page.

For an ordered look, fit the collage within a defined shape, like a heart, circle, square, Christmas tree, or any other shape that correlates with the collage. Let your imagination and creativity be your guide.

Generally, these Leis are not made with complex patterns, but remain very simple. Alternately, small doves can be punched and placed along the borders to add a romantic touch to a wedding scrapbook.

Do you also remember all of your hard work falling apart two months later? A good way to make your own personal seals is with Crayola Model Magic.