If you are involved in making a scrapbook you might need to be careful not to let your scrapbooking expenses get the better of you. There are a lot of quite simple, but effective techniques which will help you create great pages within your budget.
Creating Your Own Background Page.
If you do not want to get into buying pre-patterned backgound pages you can design your own pages by using several different and less expensive techniques. Stamping is great because you can use the same stamps but by overlapping it, running it down the page as a trim, or coloring it in using different colours, you can create quite different effects.
For an overall pattern or a border pattern, you can use a sponging technique with acrylic colors and get quite unique effects for a backgound page. By using different shades of one color, or contrasting colors you can create something quite special.
Also, if you are comfortable with computers you can design pages that have an overall pattern and thereby creating your backgound page.
Collecting Embellishiments.
It is amazing how many things you will have around the house to your pages-36 pmembellish buttons, ribbons, wool, glitter and all sorts of other nic naks in your hobby and sewing boxes.
You can get some really interesting embellishment pictures from magazines and also from brochures and flyers. Just keep your eyes open as you are flicking through these.
If you are doing a scrapbook about a holiday, collect little Momentos during the holiday to add into the book-they can be anything from serviettes, match boxes, straws, coasters, cards, brochures, note paper and the list goes on. These items can help you tell a real story of your adventures.
Lettering.
It is not difficult to make your own lettering on the computer, print it on card and then you can cut out the individual letters, or various shapes which incorporated the whole phrase. If you are cutting shapes, you might like to print the wording on colored paper. You may even print straight on to your background page. Using a computer can be fantastic because there is such a variety of fonts, line styles and colors. It is really quite endless if you are comfortable with doing this.
Finding Time To Scrapbook.
Scrapbook with friends who are doing it too! This way you can share and swap papers smaller bits that you probably wouldn't use otherwise. It makes a great afternoon's fun and you will feed off each other with ideas and expressions to write on your pages.
You could even have a scrapbooking birthday party, probably with a wine or two, or three or four. Keep smiling, and remember you can always paste over something you don't like!
Kaye Dennan has owned businesses in the craft and arts industry for over 12 years. Kaye happily shares scrapbooking tips and for more information go to http://ebooksnowonline.com/prods.php?cat_id=10&prod_id=19
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