Scrapbooking

Book Jacket Backgrounds For an added personal touch and artistic flair, use a book jacket as a background. Order There are no specific rules stating that all photographs or mementos must be placed in chronological order.

That will help guide the tear, but there will be that occasional area where the tear departs from the crease. Keep in mind, however, that feathers are not acid-free, nor do they preserve well at all.

Also keep a sharp eye out for deals in second hand stores and garage sales. For instance, pictures of your sweetheart can be punched into heart shapes to add to the romantic type of love.

Tinting can be used to draw focus to a certain portion of a photograph or add color to a dull black and white page. 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.

Just be sure to place the object you plan to cut onto a mat or wad or newspaper before using the exacto knife. Kid's Art Kids bring home the greatest creations of macaroni, glitter, and finger paint.

Otherwise, the knife will cut right through your picture and into your scrapbook page or dining room table. Some interesting wood like materials include bamboo, popsicle sticks, and pieces of wood.

Be careful though, fraying does not comply well with all themes. You could create embellishments that looked like scalpels and tweezers around various pictures of your nephew during his college years.

Alternative attachment methods include sewing and eyelets. Acrylic Paint Acrylic paint can be use to draw and paint embellishments or create accents around focus objects.

A white background or a background matching the background color of the photograph will appear to add extra space to the effect. There are great ways to make a professionally done scrapbook, and plenty of tools to help make it easy.

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Polymer Molds To create great three-dimensional items of virtually any shape and size use polymer molds. 75.

To make your own quills, you roll strips of paper (from 1/8" to 1" wide, with 1/8" being standard) around a toothpick to make the paper into a spiral. Matching colors add to the continuity of the color scheme.

Wax pencils are acid-free and available in a variety of colors. Never place a sticker on a photograph as the adhesive may cause irreversible damage to the photograph.

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Wax pencils are acid-free and available in a variety of colors. They usually come in red and have a neato symbol imprinted in to the wax.

78. Painted Tissue Paper Painted tissue paper can add a colorful flair to your children's artwork or scrapbook page.

Talk about high lignin content, but if use correctly it will make a beautiful looking scrapbook, just not one that will last for generations. Set the item aside to dry.

For instance, a logical shape for a wedding or Valentines Day scrapbook is a heart. Moldable Foam Moldable foam allows you to create anything your imagination and talent allow.

It produces a subtle but sophisticated appearance. Traditional Hawaiian Lei Borders Leis can be used to make fancy three-dimensional borders.

If there is no color bleeding from it the next day, then there isn't any risk to your scrapbook. Rhinestones add color and shine to your scrapbook pages making any dull page more exciting.

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They normally sell large sheets of paper you can cut down (like 25"x35" large, and for good prices), but you can get 3"x5" swatches of 4-8 different papers for less than 4 bucks plus free shipping. Carefully cropped and sized photographs, on the other hand, enhances the overall look and feel of your scrapbook.

For instance, pictures of your sweetheart can be punched into heart shapes to add to the romantic type of love. Just remember that markers are permanent.

67. Embroidery Cotton Embroidery cotton (a heavy-duty, high-quality type of thread) can be used in a number of interesting scrapbooking ways.

The wax acts as a resistant to the ink, forming a textured look. Shadow Boxes A great way to add depth to your scrapbook page is to add shadow boxes.

Instead, have a different color background and use red accent to help draw out the red of the photo. To achieve this technique, first you need two copies of the same photo.

In this way, pockets can be virtually any texture, color, and weave to suit your required needs. Note that I keep referring to "fake" fur.

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" Yes wood. Accents are most often used not to distract from the main focus, but to help bring out certain colors and/or designs in the main focus.

Although lignin is necessary for plants and trees, you want nothing to do with it! Single, twisted, or braided fibers can be used to accentuate focus objects, as picture frames, or along the edges of the scrapbook page as borders.

Then after a few minutes, crumple the paper a bit and then iron it flat again. Be especially careful not to let the lacquer spill over the edge and ruin other parts of your scrapbook pages.

Depending on what your scrapbooking plan is, those swatches might work great. Once the Pop-Up Glue Dots are set, simply string the beads together with thread, wire, or embroidery cotton by running them through the middle of the foam with a needle.

Title Don't forget to create a title for your scrapbook page. Background colors can be matched, coordinated, or contrasted with the colors in your photographs, mementos, or embellishments.

Yeah, those! Rhinestones and body art rhinestones come in many different shapes and colors.

This paper can either match, compliment, or contrast your background color. Then tape the freezer paper, with the fabric now stuck to it, to a piece of regular printer paper.

You can of course create one of any depth, height, and width, and I recommend creating these with stiff cardstock. 84.

Then, you need to simplify your page a bit and increase the spacing between objects. html Their instructions produce great paper for scrapbooking, and are easy enough to follow.