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Textured paper can add extra dimension to your scrapbooking page.
Textured paper can be used to highlight focus items on your scrapbook page.
Textured paper can also be used as a backgrounds or border to give your page an interesting fresh look.
Textured paper is available in a variety of textures and colors and is available in most craft and office supply stores.
Patterned paper can be used for backgrounds, borders, and embellishments. Often plain white backgrounds look rather boring and dull.
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A great way to add depth to your scrapbook page is to add shadow boxes. Basically shadow boxes add a shadow to your images.
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Vellum is a transparent, translucent material. Vellum can be used to create a slight shadow or shade change to background or embellishment colors.
Additional color can be easily added to your scrapbook page through different colored backgrounds, borders, and embellishments.
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Basically punching is the cutting out of an image or piece of text using a cookie cutter like tool. Most punches are made of die cast steel. They come in various shapes and sizes. Photographs and text blocks can be punched into virtually any shapes or sizes. These shapes can add to the impact of the themes.
Simple accents can be added to your pictures, borders, and backgrounds to create an air of softness and elegance. Simply rub chalk (or eye shadow) along the edges of the paper. The color of chalk chosen can be either a similar color to the background, a contrasting color, or an outlining color such as black or grey depending on the result you want.
A leather look can add elegance to your scrapbooking page.
To create a unique leather look, simply distress cardstock. To do this, grip the cardstock in your hands. Then, with a gentle circular motion, rub the cardstock together as if you were pre-treating a laundry stain. Gradually, work your way around the cardstock until you get the desired effect.