Your own unique scrapbooking embellishments add a special personal touch to your scrapbook pages. Scrapbooking embellishments can be used as the main focus of your page, to highlight items, or as borders.
Scrapbooking embellishments can range from simple items such as stickers and ribbon to more complex techniques such as adding faux beads and silver accenting. Use your imagination and creativity.
Scrapbook tags are a little added touch of professionalism that adds to the overall well thought out look to your scrapbook. Scrapbook tags can be used for accents, captions, and thought bubbles as well as dedications. The design of your scrapbook tags will depend entirely on your personal needs and desires.
Thus, scrapbook tags can be big or small, square or specially shaped, white or colored, plain or textured.
You may or may not want to add text to your scrapbook page. You may want to just write captions below the pictures. You may want to add your own stories or poems.
You may want to add journals describing the day to day life of your baby or your child's accomplishments.
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When deciding on the order of your scrapbook pages, there are no specific rules stating that all photographs or mementos must be placed in chronological order. Therefore, it is completely up you the order you wish to place your items and embellishments on your scrapbook pages.
Designing a scrapbook layout that contains photographs can be rather tricky. Often photographs aren't quite the right shape and size or the photographic image is improperly centered and will throw off the layout of your scrapbook.
Having oversized or off centered photographs creates an air of unprofessionalism. Carefully cropped and sized photographs, on the other hand, enhances the overall look and feel of your scrapbook layout.
Most scrapbooks will contain photographs. Even the most disinterested reader of your scrapbook will glance at the photographs.
Why pay attention to scrapbooking photographs? Pictures really are worth a thousand words. Therefore, it is important to choose photographs that are of good quality and clearly illustrate your scrapbook theme.
Colors and color coordination and contrast will highlight and accent your scrapbooking. A well thought out color scheme can help define the theme of a page, attract attention to specific items, or detract away from mistakes.
Colors and poorly chosen color schemes, on the other hand, can cause your scrapbook page to look gaudy or mismatched.
Don't forget to create a title for your scrapbook page. Though adding a title might seem to be obvious or unimportant, a title defines the whole basis of your scrapbook. The title instantly tells the viewer what your page is all about. In one word or one short phrase, the title tells the reader the theme and purpose of your scrapbook.
The theme of your scrapbook can be simple or complex. Your theme could be a special event such as a birthday, a baby shower, a wedding, Christmas, or Halloween.
Themes can also be personalized to the scrapbook recipient's special interests. Special interests themes include favorite colors, sports, favorite television programs, music, the outdoors, or cultural influences.
The rest of this site is dedicated to the how-tos of scrapbooking. For your convenience and easy reference, each how-to is divided into easy to understand tips. As the name of this site suggests, there are a total of 101 tips.
The best thing about scrapbooking is that although there are a ton of scrapbooking supplies available on the market, you really don't need a lot to make your very first scrapbook.
Basically, all you need to scrapbook is an album, some glue, a pair of scissors, and some photographs or newspaper clippings. Any fabric, ribbon, or bits of leftovers from other projects can be used to embellish your scrapbook.
As you get more acquainted with scrapbooking, you will find products that save you time and frustration.
What is Scrapbooking?
Do you remember those days as a kid pasting newspaper clippings onto paper and bundling dozens of papers together with some fancy ribbon or a string? Do you also remember all of your hard work falling apart two months later?
Now there's a grown up way to save and preserve your treasures: Scrapbooking.