Scrapbooking tips

Don’t just scrap your best photographs, remember that all of your photos will record special memories for you.  In the past I have not been the best photographer but some of my most precious photos…the ones that make me smile and/or cry still deserve their place in my Scrapbooks.  You can, if you have photo editing software, edit your photographs to make them look better but sometimes I just like to use mine the way they are.

Here are just a few Scrapbooking tips also to help your stash last longer… and we all like that right

If you use push out pieces … chipboard, card shapes, alphas and stickers there is usually a border left.  Make use of these by making more embellishments with them, I used this piece leftover from a pushout card letter and adhered it to acetate before re-cutting the outer shape with the Fiskars craft knife.  I then squeezed clear glue into the inner part (I kept the bubbles because it suited me…but you can pop them with a pin) and allowed it to dry before sticking it onto my layout.

Use up all of the pop out shapes…. some packs of punchouts have little extra shapes between the main ones… I sanded the edge of these small pop out card circles with an emery board to reveal the white base card and added them to the layout with 3d foam pads.

Cut shapes from your papers and mount on 3d foam pads for extra embellishments… don’t throw away any scraps use them  on other layouts with similar colour schemes, layering them to make your own designs to add to your pages.  Use sentiments ribbon to add journalling by adding DS tape to the reverse and cutting into single words.

Just a few more tips for interest now…add 3d adhesive pads to some embellishments and keep others flat to the page.  Tie the centre of some buttons but leave the holes visible in others.  Try to add some handwritten journalling… you may not be the best writer in the world but your pages will be more interesting to future generations if you personalise them with a little bit of you

Most of all have fun… share your Scrapbooking with your children… they have such stories to tell and it’s so lovely to look back in years to come and see how their views, likes and dislikes have changed.  Encourage them to write things down… e.g. Their favourite food/person/animal/popstar/game… Best outing… Most fun day… What they like about their best friends/school/home.

I found a book a little while ago where my DD had written some of her favourites down and I was so glad that she did it… however I don’t know that she would be best pleased with her choices today

Happy Creating

Chris xx