Tags and Trimmings
To make your scrapbook still more
attractive and special you can make use of tags. These can be made from different material like fabric, pieces of
furnishings, or anything that catches your fancy.
If you are not too creative, you can pick them up from shops. Tags are very useful
for highlighting some special incidents from ones life and can be in any shape, color or texture. Tags allow you to
be as creative as you can get.
You can use any kind of trimmings to personalize your scrapbook. It could be the
centre piece of a page, could be used as the border or just to emphasize on something interesting or some special
moments captured.
You can use your own creativity and imagination to make these trimmings. They
could simple ribbons to exquisite pieces of decorative items, which can be made by using odd things or small little
nothings picked up at garage sales.
Trimmings can also be left over’s from other projects, you just have to use anything
that catches your eye and fits into the theme. Again there is no hard and fast rule of what you can use and what
you can’t. It’s entirely your wish on how you want the end result to look.
Accessories
While you are looking at the accessories make sure to pick up a marker to write in
the scrapbook and to highlight letterings, and borders.
There are a variety of markers available in the market make sure to pick up the ones
that will not smudge on the scrapbook pages. These are available in reputed stationary shops and are available in a
variety of colors. They are acid free and do not fade over a period of time.
Making a scrapbook will not be possible without the wax pencil. These are specially
made to enable you write on glass, photographs and plastic. You can also use this for coloring, making borders or
for highlighting something on the pages. The ink used in these pencils is acid free and comes in many
colors.
While making scrapbooks for children stickers can be used extensively. Stickers
specially ones involving favorite cartoon figures immediately endear the book to the child and add a personal
touch.
They can be used to hide mistakes add a little humor and can be used as trimmings.
Before using stickers, you must take care to see that the stickers are lignin free and acid free and the glue is
not dried.
One more exciting trimming that can be used is a rubber stamp which when dipped in
acid free ink can be used to make various trimmings. You can make charming designs on scrapbooks for children in
attractive colors. Souvenir can be decorated with different rubber stamps
If the scrapbook is not a formal one you could casually tear up paper and stick it in
different shapes and give your page a very informal trimming effect. These could also be used as borders and
backgrounds. Great care should be taken to see that this is not used with any other theme other then casual
ones.
Fraying paper and using it as a border looks very nice in children’s
scrapbook.
They also go well with scrapbooks being made for someone who has a great aesthetic
sense. Fraying cannot be used with all themes. One must learn the art of fraying before trying to practice
it.
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