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Just as the backdrops and props that you see in theater productions help to drawn you into the play, background scrapbooking embellishments and stamps set the stage for your messages and art on a scrapbooking project. With the variety of scrapbooking embellishments and stamps available from craft stores, you can create a coordinated look and feel for any project with little effort. Many background designs are simple enough that they line up easily even if they’re not large enough to cover an entire project. You can design fun borders that tie together the colors from the rest of the page, or create multicolored background images using stamps or embellishments. You may want to use write markers to apply ink to your images to create unique, colorful backgrounds to showcase your memories.
You can purchase scrapbooking embellishments that are large enough to easily cover the entire front of a card, creating an ideal backdrop for your central image. Using a linen pattern with a stamp creates a soft texture that covers every square inch of the front of a card. The card will look like a piece of linen fabric was adhered to it.
A message can be stamped or scrapbooking stickers used, cut out, and applied to a card or scrapbook page. Or, you may apply ink to a single word using a write marker. This is indeed a contemporary overall looking background, and will provide ideal individual messages for many occasions.
For your next scrapbook project, create a page where the background keeps your viewers firmly drawn into the world of your idea using scrapbooking embellishments.
When the March winds stop blowing and the flowers start peeking from beneath the earth, you know that Spring has arrived and it’s time for adding colorful scrapbooking embellishments to those scapbooking pages or card making. Spring is a wonderful time to put away winter scrapbooking stickers and stamps and start creating pages bursting with Summer fun and sun. These scrapbooking embellishments send friendly Spring greetings and capture moments from barbecues, vacations, and lazy days at the lake or beach. But, as well as stamps and stickers, they are only the beginnings of effective art creativity. Adding appropriate color, depth, and styles provide memorable viewing for your scrapbooking page layouts.
Use repetition in your creativity by including images in different colors in your pages. Repetition establishes continuity and a specific color scheme. Movement on a card from top left to bottom right or vice versa, encourages your recipient to open the card and see what’s on the inside.
Include unique scrapbooking embellishments on your scrapbook pages or in your card making this Spring!
Adding a dimension of scrapbooking embellishments to a creative project can be just like having that little sweet treat after eating a meal. There are a great number of ways to add dimension to your scrapbooking page layouts. Here are a few of the basics.
Step up your card making or scrapbook pages with some layers and breadth and you’ve got pages and an event to remember.
Another simple way to enhance your creations with proportion is to adhere one or more scrapbooking embellishments to your project using dimensionals. Highlight layers under images for even more pop.
Accessorize your project with dimensionals that already have that quality, like beads, buttons, and brads.
You can also create the breadth on your scrapbook pages using scrapbooking tools. Try paper-piercing, dry embossing, or punching out a piece or two. I’ve created embossed circles using a crop-a-dile in many of my projects.
Layering, to popping, to accessorizing, and more. Think of all the ways that you can add scrapbooking embellishments for dimension in all of your scrapbook or card creations.
Here are a few scrapbooking embellishments that are used by scrapbookers in size and style.
Beads and buttons are sold in packages and are used to add sparkle and interest to scrapbooking stickers, die-cuts, and other kinds of images. They can be secured with adhesives or sprinkled over with wet adhesives. They can be strung with wire or the like and ad bling to pages.
Ribbon, string, or thread can be used for weaving, framing borders, or for other decoration.
Other scrapbooking embellishments are the wooden items that are used to add dimension to scrapbook pages. Markers can accent certain wooden images. Confetti scrapbooking paper in strips or confetti can be glued to a page as a bright decoration. Cloth labels can be used to design pages with about any saying that you may choose.
These are just a few of the many scrapbooking embellishments that are available for scrapbookers to use to enhance their scrapbooking albums.