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Scrapbooking Techniques

Take a notebook or a mundane daily diary or journal and add some decoration with a border and you end up with a scrapbook. The notebook, diary, journal or scrapbooks have the same basis for production. They all are filled with thoughts, ideas and feelings. What separates a scrapbook from the others is the visual impact and beauty of the production. In a way, the scrapbook allows you to show off your events or thoughts so that other people will enjoy seeing it. All these mentioned items preserve memorabilia and legacies. It is just that the scrapbook dabbles in creativity and imagination whereas the other items are plain and simple. more…

7 Themes for Children Scrapbooking

Children at age of five to six are very passion in drawing, art and craft. You can get them involve in scrapbooking to express their interest of crafting. Here I share my seven secret tips for your children scrapbooking ideas. more…

Why not Lean on Scrapbooking Websites

So you’ve gotten married and you hover at all those pictures. Finally you spot some poses and memories which you intend to set apart from the rest. Keeping them in the traditional album would not necessarily give them the touch they need. So why not try doing a scrapbook of those photos? Certainly, it will be all worth it.

When the idea of scrapbooking has hit your thoughts, you tend to look over several sources such as magazines, print ads, newspapers, journals, and of course some internet websites. These sources nevertheless give you a clear picture of what your finished product will exactly reflect about.

They also provide you with insights on how to start your project, what materials will be worthy to use, and how to go on with the steps of scrapbooking. You may have also heard of your friends talking about what they do with their scrapbooks or the photographer during your wedding had talked about keeping these photos in such an impressive manner. In this case, you might want to explore the thing for yourself.

You may not be a professional photographer and it may be your first time to deal with scrapbooking. Are you a little afraid? Better not be. There are a lot of scrapbooking websites that can help you out with your plan. So what will really add flavor to your scrapbook? What things will accentuate your photos? How will you deal with the steps of creating a scrapbook?

Getting Started

Thinking about how you would start can go on for days. After all, the hardest part in scrapbooking is conceptualizing the layout and the design that you prefer to employ. But then after such considerations have finally been thought of, you can now go forward into thinking about the scrapbook products which you will utilize. In all of these dilemmas, the scrapbooking websites that you will consult can provide you with the most needed help and advices you seek.

Behind a greatly made scrapbook is the load of quintessential scrapbooking supplies which have been artistically mixed and matched. Without these scrapbooking supplies, there will be nothing to cherish in a scrapbook, so to speak. Personally, the scrapbooking supplies which are sold by many online stores can take your breath away. They come available in several colors, designs, shapes and sizes of many kinds. When scrapbooking is all you’ve got in mind, you simply have to choose and decide on which scrapbooking supplies to make use of. After all, it is only you who know what kind of output you expect.

So the theme of your scrapbook will be your wedding day. Choose the colors that will suit your theme and the clothing posed by the people in the pictures. The combination of all the colors of the material must complement the colors contained in the photos.

The most basic colors that suit the wedding theme will be gold, silver, and white. But of course you can always change them as you prefer it. After dealing with the colors, get it on with the content. In the very first page you can paste the wedding invitation so that the storytelling can be started with. The rest of the photos will follow in the succeeding pages.

Remember to make use of appealing borders and embellishments. However, the scrapbook may or may not contain all those wedding pictures. You can just choose which you would like to include. But then an exception comes in when you prefer the wedding memorabilia to be presented in a scrapbook manner.

Scrapbooking Websites in Action

Online surfing for scrapbooking ideas is a very much acclaimed step by many people. By simply visiting scrapbooking websites, you will come across with the bunch of ready-made layouts and sample of contents for your scrapbook. You may likewise print them is the scrapbooking website allow it. If you know how to maximize the capacity of your computer and your internet, you surely can find hundreds of valuable ideas from scrapbooking websites. After all, they serve such purpose.

Scrapbooking websites are also tutorial websites that instruct you about which materials can be easily crafted into a great scrapbook product, what simple steps may be followed by beginners, what designs would be trendy, and many more.

Tuesday Techniques: Direct to Paper Inking

Direct to paper inking is applying ink directly from the inkpad onto your paper.

  • Tips and Ideas:
    Edging: Hold the paper in one hand and the ink pad in the other. Run the ink along the edge of the paper.
  • Peaks & valleys: Crumple your paper, then smooth it out (sanding is optional). Skim the paper with an ink pad, applying color to the “peaks”.
  • Light coverage: Put the ink pad face down on the paper and lightly tap it to
    apply color.
  • Heavy coverage: Put the ink pad face down on your paper and skim it across the paper, pressing the ink pad down as you go. Sweeping: Tap the bristles of the stippling brush onto the ink pad. Hold the brush at an angle and sweep it across the paper to color.
  • Tapping: Tap the bristles of a stippling brush onto the ink pad. Hold the brush perpendicular to the paper and gently tap it onto the paper.

Tuesday Techniques: How to make a Library Pocket

Library Pockets and other office supply type items are the hottest thing in scrapbooking right now. They can be used for many different things, such as to hold journaling or memorabilia, or add them to hold handmade tags.

Materials:

Paper or Cardstock
Bone Folder
Corner Rounder
Paper Cutter
Directions:

Cut a piece of paper or cardstock to 4.25 x 7.5 inches.
Using a bone folder, make a score line at 4.25 inches down. The other length should be 3.25 inches.
Make scores .5 inch from each side.
Cut along the creases from the end to the middle score mark (the 2 creases .5 inches from the side).
Cut a slant across to the edge.
Use the corner rounder on the narrow ends’ corners.
Fold and glue the two flaps.
Tips:

Once you have the hang of it, alter and try different sizes
Get creative and find new uses for your pockets