Scrapbooking

Here is a basic template, just cut along the solid lines and fold inward on the dotted lines: Glue or tape the sides in place; you will end up with a sort of rectangular bowl. Hinges Hinges are used to make pop up windows.

29. Alternative attachment methods include sewing and eyelets.

Leather Look A leather look can add elegance to your scrapbooking page. You don't want to make shadow boxes too deep, as they may get crushed, or make the scrapbook close awkwardly.

Patterned backgrounds add a touch of excitement to your page. Since, the bottom of the puzzle pieces is flat, gluing and placing puzzle pieces is simple.

Stained glass is especially pretty in the most formal or heavily religiously themed scrapbooks. Hand Prints The sweetest accents to a child's scrapbook page are handprints.

Quilling has been around since the Renaissance age Quilling can be as simple as gluing a few precut strips onto a scrapbook page or as complex as artful designs. 53.

Beads are available at your local craft store in a variety of shapes, sizes, and colors. Polymer Molds To create great three-dimensional items of virtually any shape and size use polymer molds.

This adds a masculine touch that is great for those interested in cars, trains, airplanes, or metalworking. I would suggest you sketch out what you want to draw or write using pencil first.

This technique is especially useful in children's art and educational scrapbooks. Remember the old saying, "measure twice and cut once.

Shadow boxes are also a great way to make your most important photographs or text boxes stand out from the rest of the page. Embossing Embossing is the art of adding dimension to card stock, metal, and vellum.

Once set, these items can be painted with acrylic paint. 13.

This effect can be used to create a relaxed, outdoorsy feel to your scrapbook page. Adding Dimension One good way to add dimension to images is to use double stick foam tape.

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. Depending on what your scrapbooking plan is, those swatches might work great.

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. Furthermore, copper is fairly easy to work with and cut into various shapes.

Many people like to laminate the newspaper clipping. Then, simply close the window.

Not only does this look very professional, but it will preserve the newspaper clipping indefinitely. In fact, you could easily have them custom made to your desires.

Fabric often makes a page look great if used as the entire background. 72.

First, print out your word in a bold straight font, with several spaces between each letter. Cutting and Cropping Often photographs aren't quite the right shape and size, or the photographic image is improperly centered.

Downloading and printing images is a good way to find pictures or photographs of your child's favorite television character or band for a unique personalized touch. Another way is to scratch the paper with an emery board or sandpaper.

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. But of course many stores sell packages of embellishment kits.

Ribbon and lace are especially popular in gift and feminine scrapbooks. Next, place a picture on top of the carbon paper.

Let your imagination and creativity be your guide. Now, you've pretty much made this piece of paper the "bad apple" of your scrapbook, as it will age faster than normal and aid the decomposition of things it touches.

Dried Flowers Dried flowers make elegant embellishments and accents in scrapbooks. The powders are applied using embossing ink and then heated with an embossing heat gun.

Next, just punch the tape into shape. Photograph Mosaics An attractive technique for placing photographs into scrapbooks is the photograph mosaic.

You should never use real fur in your scrapbooks. You can even get rubber stamps custom made after your own handwriting.

Once the display is set, start permanently attaching the collage to the background. Flowers can be used to add a homey touch to photographs or to draw the eye away from cluttered scrapbooks.

71. 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.

40. Debossing is the opposite of embossing.

This is a rather difficult thing to test in a short period of time, so try using only special scrapbooking stickers for scrapbooks you plan to preserve. Shrink Paper Shrink art can add an abstract or child like feel to your photographs or scrapbook pages.

pioneerthinking. Repeat this process until the vellum has a shiny look.

Embossing is a lot of fun and the results can be magnificent! amytree.

Furthermore, these embellishments can be used to focus on a certain photograph or memento. 38.

Fraying looks especially good in children's scrapbooks, as well as pages for your more creative and imaginative friends. For a bold tear, just have at it.

Click here to go to Paper Mojo. If you don't than glitter will eventually comes loose, make a mess and scratch your photographs.

Curled edges give depth to a scrapbook page. On one photograph, draw evenly spaced vertical lines on the back of the picture.

Don't prepare the paper to guide the tear at all, just start tearing where you want the tear to be. These embellishments can be used as an added touch for baby announcements, children's artwork, or elegant gift books depending on the shape and size.

Then, stack the petal on top of each other and then pinch on end of them to make a teardrop shop. 52.