Friday, March 9, 2012

Jazz Up Your Scrapbooks With Embellishments

By Roger Gray


Would you like to learn how to keep mementos and get creative with them? Keeping a scrapbook will enable your creativity to improve. Sticking photographs in an album is just a small part of it. Aside from the photographs, you can add plenty of embellishments to really make your scrapbook fun and unique. When you add embellishments, you go from plain old scrapbook to fantastic and fun collection.

What is meant by embellishments? Embellishments are much more than just paper. They can be made from various materials like plastic, wood, cloth and metal. You can buy many kinds of embellishments. Several of these are charms, brad, ribbons, eyelets, buttons, beads, feathers, fibers, hemp or jute cord and tags. In addition to the commercial products you buy, you can add personal items relating to the theme of the scrapbook; such as a train, concert or Broadway play ticket. For a party theme, you can include the invitations, gift wrapper, and confetti. You could also use a map of your vacation location for a scrapbook that's themed around travelling.

Glue dots are ideal for sticking embellishments since they are really strong and offer sufficient support for even the heavier kinds of embellishments. Just tear off the right size and put the embellishment on top of the glue dot. Apply it with a little pressure for a couple of seconds. Glue pens or double-sided tapes are good too. You may also wish to sew certain embellishments onto the page with embroidery floss and colored or invisible thread whichever meets your need. You also have the choice of using colored staples for attaching things to your scrapbook.

Just keep in mind not to go overboard with embellishments. Keep the focus on the photographs in each page. Decorations should only be used to accent or compliment the photographs. You do not want the embellishments to take center stage or make your layout look too crowded.

Having embellishments in your scrapbook will make it far from plain and boring. Instead of just putting photos on a page, with the application of embellishments, you will get those creative juices flowing. You now know just some of the embellishments that are available to use and its time for you to jazz up those scrapbooks.




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