Scrapbooking

You could also take a paper grocery bag and crumple it and crumple it. This reduces time and money.

Embellishments need not be expensive, in fact most are free! They usually come in red and have a neato symbol imprinted in to the wax.

Accents Simple accents can be added to your pictures, borders, and backgrounds to create an air of softness and elegance. 1.

Mini-glue dots are great for those small items. Stickers can be used for captions, thought bubbles, to hide mistakes, or as embellishments.

Simply alternate horizontal and vertical threads over and under. Unfortunately, the market has not caught up to this and there is no inexpensive and accurate way to test the acidity of fabric.

Alternately, these embellishments can be used to soften the look of a busy or sharp image. Finally, add black and tan chalk on top of the rub to shadow and highlight the item.

In this way, color can be used to create the effect you desire. Smudging pencil is easier and gives a little bit more control.

Be careful not to overload a page with embellishments, more is not always better. Magnetic sheets and magnetized photo albums can be found at your local craft or office supplies store.

Individual fibers can be used to highlight focus on certain items or used to add dimension to artwork or drawings. Embellishments can be used as the main focus of your page, to highlight items, or as borders.

Many people like to laminate the newspaper clipping. The theme of this book will probably be your baby.

Ribbon and lace are especially popular in gift and feminine scrapbooks. Try crumpling and crumpling other types of paper, they may become cloth-like as well.

Next, place the fabric you want dyed into the Kool-Aid for a few minutes. In this way, charms can be added to memento, graduation, or gift scrapbooks to create a personalized feeling to the page.

A white background or a background matching the background color of the photograph will appear to add extra space to the effect. By far, the best resource for all sorts of textured paper is Paper Mojo.

Woven Backgrounds A woven background can create a natural feel or color to your scrapbook page. Liquid Appliqué Liquid appliqué can be use to draw and paint embellishments or create accents around focus objects.

Keep in mind, however, that feathers are not acid-free, nor do they preserve well at all. Leather Look A leather look can add elegance to your scrapbooking page.

So I strongly suggest you stick with ones made by those who do it for a living. Cutting and Cropping Often photographs aren't quite the right shape and size, or the photographic image is improperly centered.

There is a lot that can be done with this technique, let your creativity flow. Then pull straight out to remove the edges.

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. Wood Backgrounds Use your imagination and creativity to explore new materials for backgrounds.

Handprints are especially appreciated in baby or grandparent scrapbooks. That will help guide the tear, but there will be that occasional area where the tear departs from the crease.

Punching Basically punching is the cutting out of an image or piece of text using a cookie cutter like tool. Keep in mind, however, that feathers are not acid-free, nor do they preserve well at all.

Coordinated colors add depth to scrapbook pages. Photographs could include baby and grandma with the baby.

Embroidery Cotton Embroidery cotton (a heavy-duty, high-quality type of thread) can be used in a number of interesting scrapbooking ways. These are available an amazing variety.

11. So when buying paper for your scrapbooking projects, be sure to look for packages that say "lignin-free," because if it doesn't say it, then it most likely isn't.

Items can also be placed into random groups, abstract shapes, or collages. If you make a mistake, there is no going back.

Repeat this process until the vellum has a shiny look. Magnetic sheets and magnetized photo albums can be found at your local craft or office supplies store.

That will help guide the tear, but there will be that occasional area where the tear departs from the crease. This will look like a border to the vellum.

If a sour aftertaste is left in your mouth then the fabric most likely contains some acid. Acrylic Paint Acrylic paint can be use to draw and paint embellishments or create accents around focus objects.

Most regular glues do not work on metal. 78.

Buttons Buttons can be added to pop up windows for effect or to educational scrapbooks as a learning device. This gives the copper red, orange, and purple tones.

Weaving Photographs For more dramatic results from your photographs, try weaving two copies of the same photograph together. These specialty products will work just fine.

Faux Painting Faux painting can be created with various colored sheets of paper. These Pop up windows allow these items to be viewed and then hidden once again.

Never glue as you go! Then, attach to shape onto your scrapbook page.

Rubber stamps are popular too. In addition to using only photographs, collages can also contain blocks of text or embellishment.

When you cut the images or letters out and turn them over, the letters have a very pretty, muted, chalk-like appearance. Alternately, you can use embroidery cotton to tie the feather in place.

Puzzle Pieces Puzzle pieces make playful embellishments and borders. Fabric Fabric can be used in many ways to enhance scrapbook pages.

pioneerthinking. Weaving Photographs For more dramatic results from your photographs, try weaving two copies of the same photograph together.

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. Excess powder or glitter can be brushed away.