Scrapbooking

Your antique page can then be left as is, chalked, or inked for an even more dramatic effect. Vellum is available in both acidic and non-acidic forms.

Just cut your paper border about an inch larger than you need. If you are using straw, bark or reeds, be aware that these materials do not preserve well.

This creates a softened look suitable for baby and grandparent scrapbooks. This can be used as a softening agent for baby scrapbooks, as a touch of elegance to gift scrapbooks, or to create dimension in a boring flat page.

Again, they are acidic, but not quite as acidic as Kool-Aid, and will leave your fabric with bright bold colors. 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.

Just try to make sure that no photos directly touch fabric, and if you need them to overlap, make sure there is a layer of paper between the two. However, when used on the back of a photograph, the ink will become permanent.

Homemade Paper Embellishments Candy and soap molds can be used to make embellishments with that homemade paper look. Go to your favorite hardware or home improvement store and buy a tube of 100% silicon.

In this way, copper can be used to create an elegant antique look or a more masculine look. 5.

Rubber Stamping Rubber stamps dipped in acid-free ink can be used to create various embellishments. This curled edge can then be left as is, chalked, or inked for a more dramatic effect.

75. Various shapes and sizes can also be cut or punched out of fabric.

You can only cover it up or try to incorporate it somehow. Tags can be used for accents, captions, and thought bubbles as well as dedications.

In addition to using only photographs, collages can also contain blocks of text or embellishment. Print these graphics or clipart directly onto lignin-free and acid-free paper.

Liquid appliqué is fairly easy to use. Your antique page can then be left as is, chalked, or inked for an even more dramatic effect.

A good way to make your own personal seals is with Crayola Model Magic. Crystal Lacquer Crystal lacquer adds shine and protection to your photographs.

Use your imagination and creativity. The tape should say "acid-free" right on the packaging.

Faux ABC Beads ABC beads look great on children's artwork and baby scrapbooks. If you don't than glitter will eventually comes loose, make a mess and scratch your photographs.

Next, just punch the tape into shape. If you can, get an artist's pencil with a fairly hard lead and sketch your drawing or text very lightly so it barely shows.

You don't want any of the dried gunk on it, just the stains it leaves. Then, the piece is immediately ready to place.

Having oversized or off-centered photographs looks very unprofessional. Alternately, you can stretch a piece of an old nylon over the loop and secure with tape.

Make a wire loop. Faux ABC Beads ABC beads look great on children's artwork and baby scrapbooks.

Rhinestones and body art rhinestones come in many different shapes and colors. Lace requires a bit more patience and much less glue.

Not only will glue end up all over the place but you will no doubt find out too late that the title doesn't go well with the photograph or that the spacing is too tight. For instance, a logical shape for a wedding or Valentines Day scrapbook is a heart.

Alternately, you can use embroidery cotton to tie the feather in place. The first thing to avoid is paper that is not lignin-free.

Leis add an exotic touch to holiday scrapbooks. 62.

However, you can also place items in object patterns such as mountains, trains, or Christmas trees. Sequins Sequins can add a creative flair and a dash of color to scrapbook pages as embellishments.

You can also group items into formal or informal categories such as similar colors, events, activities, individuals, or families. Faux Painting Faux painting can be created with various colored sheets of paper.

Just lay the items on the page where you think they should go. Embossed Foil Embossed foil creates unique elegant accents and highlights on photographs.

Contrasting colors can also be used to create a more dramatic or focusing effect away from or towards various photographs or mementos. However, check out your local hardware store for metal glues or contact cement.

Then just make sure that the piece fabric lines up with where ever it is being printed. Scrapbooking is still used to hold personal keepsakes and for gift giving, and now scrapbooking techniques can be used to make baby announcements, grandparent books, gift cards, artwork for kid's rooms, recipe books, and even educational tools.

Place a piece of pain paper on top of the fabric and iron where the fabric is. Pre-rolled quills and/or precut quilling paper are available in specialty craft stores.

Another method is to string wire through the charm and attach both end of the wire to secure eyelets. There are several ways to attach charms to your page.

Real fur decomposes very quickly and will ruin your scrapbook in a hurry. Magnetic sheets and magnetized photo albums can be found at your local craft or office supplies store.

Next, color the back of the vellum with a marker (your choice f color). Then, paste these marbles, using clear drying glue, on top of writing or an embellishment that you want magnified.

Here's a shocker: paste is a thing of the past. Keep in mind, however, that feathers are not acid-free, nor do they preserve well at all.

Gradually, work your way around the cardstock until you get the desired effect. Iron the papers, using the hottest setting of a pre-heated iron, for no more than 5 seconds.

46. You don't want any of the dried gunk on it, just the stains it leaves.

For instance, a logical shape for a wedding or Valentines Day scrapbook is a heart. Do you also remember all of your hard work falling apart two months later?

Although lignin is necessary for plants and trees, you want nothing to do with it! If you are manually cropping and cutting pictures, make sure that you mark the outline you want with chalk (or eye shadow if you don't have chalk) before you cut.