Scrapbooking

When the blade is dull, the end is simply broken off to reveal another sharp tip, or easily replaced. Then, imprint this ball with a small rubber stamp or a brass seal.

Check to see if the stickers are lignin-free and acid-free. Use the dry colored tissue paper as a background, a border, or as a fancy embellishment.

Eyelets can either be attached by pushing the eyelet prongs through the background or attaching them with glue dots. Tearing creates an artistic look to backgrounds, borders, and embellishments.

Creativity and imagination are your only limits. 63.

You aren't getting much acid at all, just enough to tickle your taste buds. 80.

When you cut the images or letters out and turn them over, the letters have a very pretty, muted, chalk-like appearance. Black ink brushed over orange crayon will create a great Halloween setting.

Dye Kool-Aid makes a fabulous inexpensive and easy dye. 9.

The shape you choose for your scrapbook will depend entirely on your theme. You can use virtually any graphic on the Internet for any non-commercial project.

There are plenty of other dye's out there, like Rit, that create great looking colors, but they are mostly quite acidic. Does your page have more photographs than background?

To further slow this process, use Mylar or page protectors to protect the newspaper from the outside elements. For more control, use a dry marker as a paintbrush.

This takes a bit of time and effort, but it looks great. There are great ways to make a professionally done scrapbook, and plenty of tools to help make it easy.

It can be used to embellish your scrapbook pages, cards, and tags. Then, twist the petals together where you pinched them.

If you need to, redampen the edge and remove more material, little by little. 98.

However, you can also create customized buttons that match your background or general color scheme. To add a richer texture, cut these from velveteen paper.

Accents are most often used not to distract from the main focus, but to help bring out certain colors and/or designs in the main focus. Brush off the excess powder with a brush.

Another consideration when using fabrics is if the color will bleed off onto your page and other things touching it. 37.

Some interesting wood like materials include bamboo, popsicle sticks, and pieces of wood. Then, smudge the color onto the page.

That way, the pencil sketching will remain very light and not interfere with or show through the marker. For an interesting change from ribbon and lace, try using jute or raffia.

Remember the old saying, "measure twice and cut once. You don't want to make shadow boxes too deep, as they may get crushed, or make the scrapbook close awkwardly.

Then, twist the petals together where you pinched them. Woven Backgrounds A woven background can create a natural feel or color to your scrapbook page.

Next, crinkle the individual popcorns and roll them into tight balls. Tags Yep, they are just like they sound: a various shaped slip of paper or other material to add extra text… Usually… I mean, this is how they are usually used, but like anything else in scrapbooking: be creative!

These pictures can be used as backgrounds, as focus items, or as embellishments. Some of the best sanity savers include glue dots, glue pens, Xyron adhesives, and two-sided tape.

Scrape off all of the gunk, then put a layer of wax paper on it and lay a nice, big heavy book on top of it. 80.

Bazzill paper is great for this purpose. Unlike plastic flowers, fabric flowers look more realistic.

Book Jacket Backgrounds For an added personal touch and artistic flair, use a book jacket as a background. The best way to preserve them and your scrapbook is to spray them with a healthy coat of protectant, like Archival Mist.

There are several ways to attach charms to your page. These specialty products will work just fine.

To add a richer texture, cut these from velveteen paper. amytree.

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

Polymer Molds To create great three-dimensional items of virtually any shape and size use polymer molds. Today's scrapbooks make great baby announcements, grandparent books, gift cards, artwork for kid's rooms, recipe books, and educational tools.

Hemp glues quite easily and hides glue messes well. Embellishments Your own unique embellishments add a special personal touch to your scrapbook pages.

Weaving can be done using fabric, yarn, straw, or reeds. 82.

Some interesting scrap material suitable for backgrounds include scrap fabric, bits of linoleum, and carpet swatches. Furthermore, copper is fairly easy to work with and cut into various shapes.

Brush off the excess powder with a brush. Optionally, you can stamp the item with black ink before you emboss for an even more dramatic result.

Often used items can be ripped apart and the pieces reused literally for only pennies. " Yes wood.

Flowers can be placed whole, in bunches with other flowers, as petals, or punched into various shapes. Then pull straight out to remove the edges.

Rhinestones add color and shine to your scrapbook pages making any dull page more exciting. Theme The theme of your scrapbook can be simple or complex.

This method would be the easiest. The answers to these three questions are all factors in selecting an appropriate theme.