Scrapbooking

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38. This appearance creates a softening effect to loud scrapbook pages or adds an air of freedom and peace to an outdoorsy themed scrapbook.

Also place a layer of paper between the puzzle piece and photographs. This technique creates a three-dimensional artistic look.

As you get more acquainted with scrapbooking, you will find products that save you time and frustration. This curled edge can then be left as is, chalked, or inked for a more dramatic effect.

Flowers can also be used to add to an outdoor or elegant theme. Then, lightly brush the item you want drybrushed.

To make these accents, stamp a piece of vellum with embossing ink and Heat n' Stick powder. Make sure it all prints on one page and preferably centered.

Of course if you turn the paper or material over it is then embossed! Simply glue and place individual sequins using tweezers.

Then, trace all around the on picture using an embossing tool to imprint the picture onto the foil Ready made embossed foil is also available at your local craft store. Kid's Art Kids bring home the greatest creations of macaroni, glitter, and finger paint.

Let's get scrapbooking! This adds a masculine touch that is great for those interested in cars, trains, airplanes, or metalworking.

Hinges Hinges are used to make pop up windows. Once this hardens it will look just like a typewriter key.

In this way, pockets can be virtually any texture, color, and weave to suit your required needs. Alternately, you can use Liver of Sulpher to make the copper look old and blackened.

In fact, silk and many tie-dye's actually go through an acid bath during the manufacturing process. A great deal of practice is required to get these pens to create the desired results, and in the beginning, you're probably better of practicing on pictures that you never plan on using in your scrapbook.

Tinting Tinting is a great way to add a touch of color to black-and-white photos. This might be good for a young adult or college student scrapbook.

Simply alternate horizontal and vertical threads over and under. What Next?

Using a metallic rub, you can change or enhance the color of the metal to add a dramatic touch to your scrapbook page. Try crumpling and crumpling other types of paper, they may become cloth-like as well.

Unlike regular rhinestones, body art rhinestones have an adhesive backing. Liquid appliqué is fairly easy to use.

Be on the lookout for sales on fabric, plastic flowers, lace, beads, and whatever else takes your fancy. To clean these marker paintbrushes, simply wipe with a damp cloth.

Furthermore, copper is fairly easy to work with and cut into various shapes. Concho and glaze are available at most craft stores.

96. For instance, chronological order might be useful for an anniversary scrapbook.

Shells come in all sorts of colors and shapes that will enhance your color theme. Do you also remember all of your hard work falling apart two months later?

This creates a great children's art background or a funky scrapbook for a close friend. A traditional Lei is made using paper orchids, roses, rounded mums, and cup and saucer flowers with punched shapes and then gluing them together.

These pictures can be used as backgrounds, as focus items, or as embellishments. 52.

Using these programs, photographs can be magically darkened, brightened, sharpened, enlarged, and cropped without ruining your original photograph. For an interesting change from ribbon and lace, try using jute or raffia.

Another consideration when using fabrics is if the color will bleed off onto your page and other things touching it. Silk actually goes through an acid bath during the manufacturing process, as well as many tie-dyed fabrics.

68. Fabric often makes a page look great if used as the entire background.

Faux Metal Rusting Get the rusted metal look without the rusted metal. Stickers can be used for captions, thought bubbles, to hide mistakes, or as embellishments.

That will help guide the tear, but there will be that occasional area where the tear departs from the crease. These pencils are easy to draw with and can be used to color in portions of lettering, in borders, or to create accents.

However, scrapbooking techniques and tools have matured substantially. In this way, you will see a slight shadow only along the very edge.

Set the item aside to dry. 54.

Do note that hemp is very high in lignin. So I strongly suggest you stick with ones made by those who do it for a living.

You can tarnish copper tooling foil by heating it. Today, scrapbooks have evolved into long lasting, beautiful mementos containing everything from news clippings to three-dimensional objects.

The rest of this book is dedicated to the how-to's of scrapbooking. 82.

Furthermore, copper is fairly easy to work with and cut into various shapes. Simply rub chalk along the edges of the paper.

Faux Wax Seals You've seen them, those cool wax dots that keep letter envelopes closed. A basic cropping technique is used to create a photographic mosaic.

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. Local copy shops can provide this service for you at a very reasonable price.

You can also group items into formal or informal categories such as similar colors, events, activities, individuals, or families. Ribbon is easy to glue and attach.

6. Just be sure to place the object you plan to cut onto a mat or wad or newspaper before using the exacto knife.