Scrapbooking

Many people like to laminate the newspaper clipping. Scrap Backgrounds Use your scrap bits to create great funky backgrounds.

Sequins Sequins can add a creative flair and a dash of color to scrapbook pages as embellishments. Basically, all you need to scrapbook is an album, some glue-dots, a pair of scissors, and some photographs or newspaper clippings.

First, print a photograph directly onto shrink plastic. Alternately, you can use Liver of Sulpher to make the copper look old and blackened.

These effects can be much more dramatic than dry embossing. Puzzle pieces give a creative and playful look to children's art and educational scrapbooks.

95. The best places to look for title inspiration are in greeting cards, advertisements, and commercials.

Embossing is a lot of fun and the results can be magnificent! They also have a wide variety of embossed paper.

Tarnishing and Untarnishing Copper Copper, tarnish or untarnished, adds a unique metallic look to your scrapbook page. Then, the piece is immediately ready to place.

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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. Print Onto Fabric Instead of printing a quote or a title onto paper and gluing that on fabric, why not print it directly onto fabric?

However, Kool-Aid is very acidic, so only use this technique for scrapbooks that you don't expect your grandchildren to flip through. Then go to your favorite grocery store and get a roll of wax paper.

Wax pencils are soft pencils designed to write on glass, plastic and photographs. What Next?

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Then, with a firm circular motion, rub the cardstock together as if you were pre-treating a laundry stain. Put little dots of the silicon on the wax paper, and let them dry (preferable in a dust-free place).

These flowers are made with fabric and wire. A traditional Lei is made using paper orchids, roses, rounded mums, and cup and saucer flowers with punched shapes and then gluing them together.

62. Quilling Quilling, or paper filigree, is the art of rolling thin strips of paper into different shapes and using the shapes to form designs.

Background colors can be matched, coordinated, or contrasted with the colors in your photographs, mementos, or embellishments. These days, even an expensive scanner can scan high-quality images.

Conversely, papyrus is a coarse almost wood like paper creating an exotic feel to a scrapbook page. Here is another FUN way to age paper.

There are plenty of other dye's out there, like Rit, that create great looking colors, but they are mostly quite acidic. 13.

This is a very elegant touch on gift scrapbooks or invitations. 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.

Mosaics stretch out photographs into an artistic rendition of the original photograph. Alternately, you can use Liver of Sulpher to make the copper look old and blackened.

The tear will stay with the crease very well. Place your object or photograph on top of this middle section.

These items add texture and color to your work. Then, fill the concho with diamond glaze.

Then, using a small paintbrush, paint this piece of vellum with gold or silver leaf. Before you actually stick that sticker, cut it out and lay it down where you would like it to go to make sure it looks good before placing it, because most stickers do not unstick very well if you make a mistake or change your mind.

So, unless you are selling your scrapbook then you don't have anything to worry about. 53.

Then, squeeze the excess water out of the paper and press the mixture in any candy or soap mold. Pockets allow you take out and put back items or journals as you see fit and replace them without damage to your scrapbook page.

Stickers can be used for captions, thought bubbles, to hide mistakes, or as embellishments. Patterning How can you arrange your scrapbook page to best show off your photographs, mementos and embellishments?

They usually come in red and have a neato symbol imprinted in to the wax. When gluing flowers, place a thin line of glue along the stem or directly on each petal.

However, the method I prefer to use is glue with the glitter mixed right in. To increase the preservation of your scrapbook and your treasures, look for albums with acid-free, lignin-free pages.

"Wood? Embellishments can be used as the main focus of your page, to highlight items, or as borders.

Then, squeeze the excess water out of the paper and press the mixture in any candy or soap mold. However, check out your local hardware store for metal glues or contact cement.

Hinges are available at any local hardware store. The low-tech way to solve these problems is to manually crop and shape the photograph using a pair of scissors or an exacto knife.

Newspaper clippings of birth announcements, team photographs, or favorite celebrities add a personal touch to scrapbook pages. Crystal Lacquer Crystal lacquer adds shine and protection to your photographs.

Quill half of a strip then quill the other half in the opposite direction to make an "S" shape. Single, twisted, or braided fibers can be used to accentuate focus objects, as picture frames, or along the edges of the scrapbook page as borders.

com (http://www. Simply add, fold, or paste additional sheets of paper into your design for the desired effect.

Then pull straight out to remove the edges. 96.

22. Continue making loops until you have enough to make a flower.

Generally, these Leis are not made with complex patterns, but remain very simple. Quilling has been around since the Renaissance age Quilling can be as simple as gluing a few precut strips onto a scrapbook page or as complex as artful designs.