Scrapbook Tags and Trimmings
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To make your scrapbook still more attractive and special you can make use of tags. These can be made from different material like fabric, pieces of furnishings, or anything that catches your fancy.
If you are not too creative, you can pick them up from shops.
Tags are very useful for highlighting some special incidents from ones life and can be in any shape, color or texture. Tags allow you to be as creative as you can get.
You can use any kind of trimmings to personalize your scrapbook. It could be the centre piece of a page, could be used as the border or just to emphasize on something interesting or some special moments captured.
You can use your own creativity and imagination to make these trimmings. They could simple ribbons to exquisite pieces of decorative items, which can be made by using odd things or small little nothings picked up at garage sales.
Trimmings can also be left over’s from other projects, you just have to use anything that catches your eye and fits into the theme. Again there is no hard and fast rule of what you can use and what you can’t. It’s entirely your wish on how you want the end result to look.
Accessories
While you are looking at the accessories make sure to pick up a marker to write in the scrapbook and to highlight letterings, and borders.
There are a variety of markers available in the market make sure to pick up the ones that will not smudge on the scrapbook pages. These are available in reputed stationary shops and are available in a variety of colors. They are acid free and do not fade over a period of time.
Making a scrapbook will not be possible without the wax pencil. These are specially made to enable you write on glass, photographs and plastic. You can also use this for coloring, making borders or for highlighting something on the pages. The ink used in these pencils is acid free and comes in many colors.
While making scrapbooks for children stickers can be used extensively. Stickers specially ones involving favorite cartoon figures immediately endear the book to the child and add a personal touch. They can be used to hide mistakes add a little humor and can be used as trimmings. Before using stickers, you must take care to see that the stickers are lignin free and acid free and the glue is not dried.
One more exciting trimming that can be used is a rubber stamp which when dipped in acid free ink can be used to make various trimmings. You can make charming designs on scrapbooks for children in attractive colors. Souvenir can be decorated with different rubber stamps
If the scrapbook is not a formal one you could casually tear up paper and stick it in different shapes and give your page a very informal trimming effect. These could also be used as borders and backgrounds. Great care should be taken to see that this is not used with any other theme other then casual ones. Fraying paper and using it as a border looks very nice in children’s scrapbook.
They also go well with scrapbooks being made for someone who has a great aesthetic sense. Fraying cannot be used with all themes. One must learn the art of fraying before trying to practice it.
This is an excerpt from my eBook “Intro to Scrapbooking”, I hope you enjoyed reading it! You may receive the first two chapters of this digital book at Cascade Scrapbooking.com
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To your scrapbook success,
Mike Snyder, owner of Cascade Scrapbooking
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