Making Use of Scrapbooking Supplies

[Earl Kelly]

Scrapbooking tools are essential to creating a successful scrapbook.
The supplies for scrapbooking are what make your scrapbook come to
life. What most people don't know is that there are many ways that you
can use ordinary scrapbook supplies and do something extraordinary
with them. I'm going to walk you through a few tips and tricks of
scrapbooking, and teach you techniques to come up with your own
scrapbooking ideas!
Take a rubber stamp, a scrapbooking material that every scrapbooker
should have. You can use this scrapbooking tool to stamp images beside
your photographs, or you can take it a step further by stamping a
collage on solid-colored scrapbook paper to create a custom scrapbook
page layout background. Also, you can color in your stamped images to
bring them to life and make them pop out more on your scrapbook page.
Another scrapbooking tip to make use of your supplies for scrapbook is
using scrapbook templates creatively. It's easy to become stumped
while using this scrapbooking material. You can decorate around a
photo, or even the border of a page. These scrapbook supplies can be
used to draw an area the put your scrapbook journaling in, also. One
other useful technique for scrapbook templates is for making a page
header. There are many attractive letter templates that make for
beautiful scrapbook page headers, or even write words around the
border of a page with the letter template.
You can do creative things with a pair of scissors, also. Although
decorative scissors with different patterns on the edge are nice, they
are not a necessity of scrapbooking supplies. Cut mats for photos with
creative borders, or use them with templates to cut out letters and
other things to give a 3D effect on your scrapbook page.
Those are just a few of the many ways you can use scrapbook supplies.
Be creative with your scrapbooking tools. To come up with original
ways to use your supplies for scrapbooking, simply look at what others
have done. Take ideas that you like, and alter them to fit your
scrapbook. Use scrapbook tools in any way that you like. There are no
rules.
Test your ideas out on scrap paper before you actually put it into
your scrapbook. This way, you can see if you really like the idea or
not, and tweak the design a bit to your liking. If you come up with
something that you like, but don't know when you will use it, write it
down for later reference.
Remember that there are no rules to using your scrapbooking materials
and scrapbook supplies. Be creative!

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