Scrapbooking

This reduces time and money. 43.

17. Flowers can be placed whole, in bunches with other flowers, as petals, or punched into various shapes.

What is the overall purpose for your scrapbook? You take a clear or white crayon, draw a pattern, write words, create a background, and then color over the design element with Lumiere, walnut ink, water color, India ink wash, etc.

Keep in mind, however, that feathers are not acid-free, nor do they preserve well at all. Next, paste the middle section of your pop up window to your background.

Are your embellishments drawing the focus away from your mementos? When the paper is fully dried, it should have all sorts of neat looking stains.

Place a piece of pain paper on top of the fabric and iron where the fabric is. Simply, tear, cut or punch shapes and designs out of the darker and lighter colors and place them on the middle colored background.

You can make your own customized paper of any color and texture you want. Kid's Art Kids bring home the greatest creations of macaroni, glitter, and finger paint.

Eventually, it will become almost cloth-like and look very aged. If the paper is not lignin-free, it will eventually discolor your photos and other materials touching it.

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. 7.

Another method is to string wire through the charm and attach both end of the wire to secure eyelets. The best thing about scrapbooking is that although there are a plethora of scrapbooking supplies available on the market, you really don't need a lot to make your very first scrapbook.

Flowers can be used to add a homey touch to photographs or to draw the eye away from cluttered scrapbooks. Kid's Art Kids bring home the greatest creations of macaroni, glitter, and finger paint.

Then cover the item in a clear embossing powder and heat. You could also take a paper grocery bag and crumple it and crumple it.

76. Rubber stamps can be anything really, because they are a booming business.

Alternately, these embellishments can be used to soften the look of a busy or sharp image. 72.

Then use a hole punch to punch out each individual letter. Its uses are limited only to your imagination!

Simply scan and print pictures onto paper or vellum. Some interesting scrap material suitable for backgrounds include scrap fabric, bits of linoleum, and carpet swatches.

On one photograph, draw evenly spaced vertical lines on the back of the picture. Homemade Paper Embellishments Candy and soap molds can be used to make embellishments with that homemade paper look.

There is whole field of scrapbooking called Journaling, and it is just like it sounds: using a scrapbook as a journal. When gluing flowers, place a thin line of glue along the stem or directly on each petal.

Complimentary colors can be slightly lighter or darker than the background to direct the focus towards or away from portions of the page. Some people say to add vinegar when dying with Kool-Aid, because the added acidity helps the fabric retain color.

But if you do see color in the water, or collecting at the bottom of the glass then don't use that fabric in your scrapbook at all. If you don't have a scanner already, I would suggest getting one.

51. Alternative attachment methods include sewing and eyelets.

Never place a sticker on a photograph as the adhesive may cause irreversible damage to the photograph. Thus, tags can be big or small, square or specially shaped, white or colored, plain or textured.

Brushing the paint on leaves the perfect amount to leave a print, and let the wrinkles and characteristic of the hand print show through. Let's get scrapbooking!

You might make a cake pattern for you niece the pastry cook. That will help guide the tear, but there will be that occasional area where the tear departs from the crease.

45. Wax pencils are acid-free and available in a variety of colors.

Use acid-free tape on the backside to keep it all together. Concho and glaze are available at most craft stores.

Use a wax pencil to draw your design on the metal before cutting. 83.

Quickly and easily you have another copy of your baby announcement, recipe, or calendar. This reduces time and money.

Then, the piece is immediately ready to place. 83.

54. 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.

Cut a square inch and suck on it for a minute or so. The eyedropper allows better control of the glitter and reduces mess.

Leather Look A leather look can add elegance to your scrapbooking page. Titles can also be more interesting and exciting.

16. An entire scrapbook made using this page antiquing technique looks great.

The best way to preserve them and your scrapbook is to spray them with a healthy coat of protectant, like Archival Mist. amytree.

Also keep a sharp eye out for deals in second hand stores and garage sales. 63.

You can only cover it up or try to incorporate it somehow. Next, start placing the glue in the areas that you want glittered.

No longer is scrapbooking about pasting newspaper clippings into messy bundles of paper. You've probably heard that before, and it is true, but what is lignin anyways?