Scrapbooking

The best way to preserve them and your scrapbook is to spray them with a healthy coat of protectant, like Archival Mist. This takes a bit of time and effort, but it looks great.

For instance, the scrapbook you are giving your nephew as he graduates from medical school is probably completely different than the grandparent book you send your mother. Next, set a circle concho over the letters.

However, you can also create customized buttons that match your background or general color scheme. Curled Edges For a unique look to your background and borders, curl the edges of your border and background pages.

These items are generally used as a way to anchor difficult or heavy objects to your scrapbook pages. Wood Backgrounds Use your imagination and creativity to explore new materials for backgrounds.

They can also be simple flowers or leaves to create elegant looks for gift scrapbooks. Next, set a circle concho over the letters.

Pictures really are worth a thousand words. Wax pencils are acid-free and available in a variety of colors.

The philosophy is to start you off with the techniques that create the foundation professionals use to make their scrapbooks and use those to lead into more advanced techniques. Emboss clear.

Some interesting scrap material suitable for backgrounds include scrap fabric, bits of linoleum, and carpet swatches. Debossing is the opposite of embossing.

When gluing feathers, place a thin line of glue along the center of the feather. A nice shape for a Christmas scrapbook is a Christmas tree.

An entire scrapbook made using this page antiquing technique looks great. Preservation Once you spend your precious time and energy creating a scrapbook, make sure it lasts!

Remember the old saying, "measure twice and cut once. By far, the best resource for all sorts of colored paper is Paper Mojo.

However, Kool-Aid is very acidic, so only use this technique for scrapbooks that you don't expect your grandchildren to flip through. The philosophy is to start you off with the techniques that create the foundation professionals use to make their scrapbooks and use those to lead into more advanced techniques.

This will adhere the fabric to the freezer paper. Tinting can be used to draw focus to a certain portion of a photograph or add color to a dull black and white page.

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pioneerthinking. html Their instructions produce great paper for scrapbooking, and are easy enough to follow.

The powders are applied using embossing ink and then heated with an embossing heat gun. Rhinestones and body art rhinestones come in many different shapes and colors.

The basic idea is to draw on the photograph with these pens to create custom tints. Of course if you turn the paper or material over it is then embossed!

Many only use 2 different types of beads. Its uses are limited only to your imagination!

Any fabric, ribbon, or bits of leftovers from other projects can be used to embellish your scrapbook. Then, lightly brush the item you want drybrushed.

Simply alternate horizontal and vertical threads over and under. These items can then be glued onto your background or borders.

Paint strips are available free for the taking in nearly any paint department. You can pick up an embossing tool for less than 4 bucks at Paper Mojo.

Then, paste the fake fur onto your scrapbooking page or onto an object. You'll also want to be sure the fabric won't bleed its color to nearby items.

Double stick foam tape literally allows items to pop out at your reader adding realism to items. Be aware, however, that some of these media alternates are extremely difficult to work with, break easily, and may not preserve well.

You can of course create one of any depth, height, and width, and I recommend creating these with stiff cardstock. Use the dry colored tissue paper as a background, a border, or as a fancy embellishment.

Be careful not to overload a page with embellishments, more is not always better. Many of these items can be downloaded or printed for free.

Pictures really are worth a thousand words. 26.

However, when used on the back of a photograph, the ink will become permanent. To ensure that glue does not show through the lace, you can lay it flat on a piece of paper and spray one side with spray adhesive.

70. Titles and text can also be punched to create professional looking scrapbook pages.

This is a great technique for educational scrapbooks where text outside the window asks a question and the answer is contained inside the window. You'll also want to be sure the fabric won't bleed its color to nearby items.

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Click here to go to Paper Mojo. However, colored or exotic feathers may add a touch of adventure or a whimsy to a scrapbook page.

Next, start placing the glue in the areas that you want glittered. Cut a square inch and suck on it for a minute or so.

it's time to let your creativity and imagination take over. These are available an amazing variety.

Then, paste your pictures onto cardstock and add a ribbon or other embellishment. 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.

This appearance creates a hardening or masculine effect to scrapbook pages. Liquid Appliqué Liquid appliqué can be use to draw and paint embellishments or create accents around focus objects.

63. You can even get rubber stamps custom made after your own handwriting.

Although lignin is necessary for plants and trees, you want nothing to do with it! No longer is scrapbooking about pasting newspaper clippings into messy bundles of paper.