Scrapbooking

7. Never place a sticker on a photograph as the adhesive may cause irreversible damage to the photograph.

Beading Beads can add color and design to a scrapbook. Try crumpling and crumpling other types of paper, they may become cloth-like as well.

To test for this, cut a square inch off and soak it in a glass of water over night. To do this, grip the cardstock in your hands.

Let your imagination and creativity be your guide. What Next?

Faux Chalk Designs To give a chalked accent to your items without the mess of the chalk, print images or text directly onto vellum. Sequins come in a variety of shapes, sizes and colors and are available at any local craft store.

A great deal of practice is required to get these pens to create the desired results, and in the beginning, you're probably better of practicing on pictures that you never plan on using in your scrapbook. You could also take a paper grocery bag and crumple it and crumple it.

Tearing creates an artistic look to backgrounds, borders, and embellishments. Here is another FUN way to age paper.

Finally, add black and tan chalk on top of the rub to shadow and highlight the item. However, pockets can also quickly and easily made by folding a piece of paper in half and then gluing three of the side edges.

To do this, just place a dryer sheet on top of the page before you begin working. You can create three-dimensional object or you can create three-dimensional borders or backgrounds.

In this way, you will see a slight shadow only along the very edge. 89.

As are pattern shears, which are required to cut the stained glass panes. To reduce the cloudiness effect caused by gluing, apply only a thin line of glue along the edges of the vellum.

Using a metallic rub, you can change or enhance the color of the metal to add a dramatic touch to your scrapbook page. Sequins come in a variety of shapes, sizes and colors and are available at any local craft store.

Furthermore, copper is fairly easy to work with and cut into various shapes. A nice shape for a Christmas scrapbook is a Christmas tree.

Once the display is set, start permanently attaching the collage to the background. Next, heat the item.

Brush off the excess powder with a brush. You could also keep the entire page in a Mylar page protector.

If you don't have a scanner already, I would suggest getting one. Homemade Paper Embellishments Candy and soap molds can be used to make embellishments with that homemade paper look.

Alternately, you can stretch a piece of an old nylon over the loop and secure with tape. Pictures and mementos of the couple's years together could be placed from the first day they met through the wedding day to the present day with each time period on a different page.

: Instead, just use a cloud shaped punch to create the individual popcorns from regular paper. 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.

The wax will resist the paint and ink and show through, resulting in a great looking design. Any fabric, ribbon, or bits of leftovers from other projects can be used to embellish your scrapbook.

It is very strong and fibrous. This takes a bit of time and effort, but it looks great.

To increase the preservation of your scrapbook and your treasures, look for albums with acid-free, lignin-free pages. The eyedropper allows better control of the glitter and reduces mess.

Once set, these items can be painted with acrylic paint. 85.

Then just make sure that the piece fabric lines up with where ever it is being printed. Tags are a little added touch of professionalism that adds to the overall well-thought-out look of your scrapbook.

Sequins come in a variety of shapes, sizes and colors and are available at any local craft store. Both acid and lignin accelerate photo fading and general deterioration.

There is a lot that can be done with this technique, let your creativity flow. These early techniques may seem simple to you, but they are all a necessary part of teaching you to scrapbook like an expert.

Pictures really are worth a thousand words. Therefore, it is important to choose photographs that are of good quality and clearly illustrate your scrapbook theme.

These embellishments and accents can be as simple or as fancy as you desire and your talent allows. It is very strong and fibrous.

Accents Simple accents can be added to your pictures, borders, and backgrounds to create an air of softness and elegance. 57.

Punching Basically punching is the cutting out of an image or piece of text using a cookie cutter like tool. This will adhere the fabric to the freezer paper.

Quilling creates an exotic handicraft look to scrapbooks. com/quilling/) 81.

But don't limit yourself to this; many collages look great without predefined borders if the pictures are combined nicely. To make the shapes, polymer clay is placed into ready-made molds and baked.

Your theme could be a special event such as a birthday, a baby shower, a wedding, Christmas, or Halloween. Stained glass is especially pretty in the most formal or heavily religiously themed scrapbooks.

Depending on what your scrapbooking plan is, those swatches might work great. Fabric Flowers Fabric flowers make great embellishments on scrapbook pages.

Pre-rolled quills and/or precut quilling paper are available in specialty craft stores. By far, the best resource for all sorts of textured paper is Paper Mojo.

Alternately, computer fonts come in a wide variety and can provide great ways to type and print text in "spooky" or "flowery" lettering. Fur Fake fur can be used to add details to drawings and embellishments on your scrapbook page.

Eyelets Eyelets are round stub-like pieces of metal. If you can, get an artist's pencil with a fairly hard lead and sketch your drawing or text very lightly so it barely shows.

To clean up, simply brush away the remaining glitter once the object is completely dried and be sure to spray the glitter with Archival Mist to further secure it in place. 37.