Scrapbooking

Therefore, it is important to choose photographs that are of good quality and clearly illustrate your scrapbook theme. Your middle shade of paper will be the base for your design, while the darker shade will be used as the shadow.

For instance, rice paper is a fine paper that can add elegance to a scrapbook page. A great way to see how colors look together is to collect and compare color strips from your local paint or hardware store.

Often these sheets have an adhesive strip on one side to promote adherence to even nonmetal objects. Faux Wax Seals You've seen them, those cool wax dots that keep letter envelopes closed.

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. 70.

Thus, body art rhinestones are easy to place directly onto scrapbook pages. com (http://www.

Textured paper is available in a variety of textures and colors and is available in most craft and office supply stores. Just lay the items on the page where you think they should go.

Puzzle pieces give a creative and playful look to children's art and educational scrapbooks. 18.

Handprints are especially appreciated in baby or grandparent scrapbooks. Next, set a circle concho over the letters.

Pictures really are worth a thousand words. 82.

Contrasted colors focus the eye. 60.

To clean these marker paintbrushes, simply wipe with a damp cloth. Carefully cropped and sized photographs, on the other hand, enhances the overall look and feel of your scrapbook.

18. Title Don't forget to create a title for your scrapbook page.

Do you remember those days as a kid pasting newspaper clippings onto paper and bundling dozens of papers together with some fancy ribbon or a string? Shells come in all sorts of colors and shapes that will enhance your color theme.

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Faux ABC Beads ABC beads look great on children's artwork and baby scrapbooks. Quilling creates an exotic handicraft look to scrapbooks.

Patterned backgrounds add a touch of excitement to your page. 46.

Since, the bottom of the puzzle pieces is flat, gluing and placing puzzle pieces is simple. 14.

The high-tech solution to your photograph woes is to use modern computer programs such as Adobe Photoshop (expensive, but very good), Paint Shop Pro (less expensive and still very good), and Photo Editor (often free with printers, scanners or cameras). Feel free to use crayons other than clear or white as well.

Today's scrapbooks make great baby announcements, grandparent books, gift cards, artwork for kid's rooms, recipe books, and educational tools. 50.

Once this hardens it will look just like a typewriter key. The philosophy is to start you off with the techniques that create the foundation professionals use to make their scrapbooks and use those to lead into more advanced techniques.

Black or brown cardstock works best for this technique. Next, adhere a letter to one side of a Pop-Up Glue Dot, and then adhere the Pp-Up Glue Dot in your scrapbook.

Simply rub chalk along the edges of the paper. Just be sure to place the object you plan to cut onto a mat or wad or newspaper before using the exacto knife.

To reduce the cloudiness effect caused by gluing, apply only a thin line of glue along the edges of the vellum. To reduce shifting of the photographs as you select an appropriate collage design, place temporary tape on each photograph or newspaper clipping.

Glitter can also create a huge mess if you don't apply it properly. Painted Tissue Paper Painted tissue paper can add a colorful flair to your children's artwork or scrapbook page.

In Conclusion... But don't limit yourself to this; many collages look great without predefined borders if the pictures are combined nicely.

However, by using hinges, you can make more permanent and stronger pop up windows made of wood. This method would be the easiest.

This might be good for a young adult or college student scrapbook. Then, smudge the color onto the page.

Curled edges give depth to a scrapbook page. The color of chalk chosen can be either a similar color to the background, a contrasting color, or an outlining color such as black or grey depending on the result you want.

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Titles and text can also be punched to create professional looking scrapbook pages. Depending on what your scrapbooking plan is, those swatches might work great.

If you have a photo with a lot of red in it, it would generally look better to not have that photo on a red background. However, you can also place items in object patterns such as mountains, trains, or Christmas trees.

Another way is to scratch the paper with an emery board or sandpaper. Then use a hole punch to punch out each individual letter.

Kid's art are great for use in parent scrapbooks, grandparent scrapbooks, and kid scrapbooks. This takes a bit of time and effort, but it looks great.

Contrasting colors can also be used to create a more dramatic or focusing effect away from or towards various photographs or mementos. Be aware however, because tearing does not comply well with all themes.

Rhinestones add color and shine to your scrapbook pages making any dull page more exciting. However, hemp can also be used to make a scrapbook appear more masculine.

Once set, these items can be painted with acrylic paint. Beading can be as simple as gluing a few beads onto a scrapbook page or as complex as a sewn beaded design.

Ribbon is easy to glue and attach. This technique is especially useful in children's art and educational scrapbooks.