Keeping Your Scrapbooking Expenses Under Control
by Kaye Dennan
Keeping Your Scrapbooking Expenses Under Control
Scrapbooking can and most probably will be, a "Work In
Progress". You will find that you may not have quite the
right color on hand, or quite the right embellishment, and
that is okay. Just keep working through your book with what
you have.
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.
Also, if you are comfortable with computers you can print
off pages that have an overall pattern and thereby creating
your background page.
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 knick -knacks 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 friends who are
doing it too! This way you can share papers and swap
smaller bits that you probably wouldn't use otherwise. 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. Keep smiling, and
remember you can always paste over something you don't like!
About the Author:
Kaye Dennan has owned businesses in the craft and arts
industry for over 12 years. Kaye happily shares
scrapbooking tips and for more information go to
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