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Don't Let Your Scrapbooking Expenses
Get
Out Of Control
by Kaye Dennan
Coordinating all your scrapbook pages and finishing them on the same day is a
bit of a challenge. Most people have them as a 'Work In Progress' unless they
have huge stock supplies. But that is OK, just keep working on it and you can go
back at a later date to finish it off.
Tizzying Up Your Own Background Page. If you do not want to get into
buying pre-patterned background pages you can fancy up your own pages through
using several techniques. Stamping is great because you can use the same stamp
but by overlapping it, running it down the page as a trim or coloring it in
using different colors 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 background page.
One system that can be effective is using a computer to print off an overall
effect on the page and then use that. Just be careful that the ink does not run.
Collecting Embellishments. It is amazing how many things you will
have around the house to embellish your pages - buttons, ribbons, wool, glitter
and all sorts of other nick-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.
If you are doing a scrapbook about a holiday, collect little mementos during
the holiday to add into the book - they can be anything from serviettes, match
boxes, straws, coasters, cards, note paper and the list goes on.
Lettering. When using bought lettering it can be quite expensive, in
that if you buy a set, you always seem to run out of the vowels first and have
heaps of letters left over. Of course, individual letters can be used to
embellish, they don't always have to 'spell' anything in particular, just
scattered on the page.
Learn to make your own lettering on the computer, print it on card and then
you can cut out the individual letters, or shapes incorporating the whole
phrase. If you are cutting shapes, 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 some friends who also have
an interest in scrapbooking or other crafts! It is great to be able to share
papers and little bits for embellishments. We all have different tastes. 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. Enjoy, and don't forget that it is easy to paste over
something you don't like and start the page again.
© Kaye Dennan has been a
teacher in the craft field for over 12 years and happily shares her knowledge.
For more help you can go to
http://ebooksnowonline.com/prods.php?cat_id=10&prod_id=19
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