Scrapbooking

Alternately, small doves can be punched and placed along the borders to add a romantic touch to a wedding scrapbook. When making the prints, I suggest you brush the paint directly on the child's hand.

Patterned Paper Patterned paper can be used for backgrounds, borders, and embellishments. This is a great elegant touch for favorite relatives or gift scrapbooks.

14. Hemp looks especially good in western themed scrapbooks or nature-oriented scrapbooks.

Local copy shops can provide this service for you at a very reasonable price. Use your imagination and creativity.

Embellishments can range from simple items such as stickers and ribbon to more complex techniques such as adding faux beads and silver accenting. These items add texture and color to your work.

To add a richer texture, cut these from velveteen paper. If the water is colored or you see dye collecting at the bottom of the glass then that means it will discolor other scrapbook items over time.

Black or brown cardstock works best for this technique. 7.

Here is another FUN way to age paper. Tags can be used for accents, captions, and thought bubbles as well as dedications.

Then, paste the fake fur onto your scrapbooking page or onto an object. This method works well on scrapbooks with fabric backgrounds.

So your best bet is to scan the instant photograph and print in out. Does your page have more photographs than background?

Pictures really are worth a thousand words. To create a unique leather look, simply distress cardstock.

You can only cover it up or try to incorporate it somehow. Some programs even allow you to easily change the background of the photograph.

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

Various shapes and sizes can also be cut or punched out of fabric. To see a great gallery of quills, go to AmyTree.

This can be used to add color and a dramatic flare to a dull scrapbook page. The best places to look for title inspiration are in greeting cards, advertisements, and commercials.

This paper can either match, compliment, or contrast your background color. A nice bow or other embellishment can also be added onto the outside of these windows to add an elegant touch to the window.

Generally the hinges are anchored to eyelets for increased support. 95.

There is no good way to preserve real fur either, so just use the fake stuff. Don't prepare the paper to guide the tear at all, just start tearing where you want the tear to be.

Most craft stores sell bags of shells you can use. Note that paper bags are high in lignin, so be careful of their use.

Depending on what your scrapbooking plan is, those swatches might work great. Lace requires a bit more patience and much less glue.

Sequins Sequins can add a creative flair and a dash of color to scrapbook pages as embellishments. Even buttons, bottle caps and pebbles can look very professional if you use them creatively.

It may also be used to highlight a mechanical or metal working theme. 77.

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. 13.

You know those glue dots that you use for just about everything? Alternative attachment methods include sewing and eyelets.

Many companies on the Internet can create a custom one for you as well. Rubber stamps can be anything really, because they are a booming business.

By far, the best resource for all sorts of textured paper is Paper Mojo. 41.

Patterned backgrounds add a touch of excitement to your page. Accents Simple accents can be added to your pictures, borders, and backgrounds to create an air of softness and elegance.

These buttons can then be glued or tied onto your scrapbook page with thread or embroidery cotton. Drybrushing is a great technique for that old fashioned look.

53. To see a great gallery of quills, go to AmyTree.

However, you can also place items in object patterns such as mountains, trains, or Christmas trees. Faux Wax Seals You've seen them, those cool wax dots that keep letter envelopes closed.

A great way to see how colors look together is to collect and compare color strips from your local paint or hardware store. You can place everything in the center of your page, place a single focus item in the center, or divide the page into sections adding items to each section.

This appearance creates a hardening or masculine effect to scrapbook pages. Mounting Once your scrapbooking page is laid out to your liking you can begin attaching and gluing your various photographs, mementos, text, and titles.

Items can also be placed into random groups, abstract shapes, or collages. Weaving can be done using fabric, yarn, straw, or reeds.

54. You still place photographs, newspaper clippings, poems, and tickets into your scrapbook to display with embellishments and preserve your memories.

For a milder tear, crease the paper by folding it and tear along the crease. Embellishments can be used as the main focus of your page, to highlight items, or as borders.

Faux Typewriter Keys Typewriter keys add a learned look to a scrapbook page. Having oversized or off-centered photographs looks very unprofessional.

They normally sell large sheets of paper you can cut down (like 25"x35" large, and for good prices), but you can get 3"x5" swatches of 4-8 different papers for less than 4 bucks plus free shipping. Making Copies The great thing about modern technology is that you can make copies of your baby announces, recipes, and calendars without a great deal of hassle.