Scrapbooking Embellishments —
Adding Style To Your Paper Crafts
Adding
scrapbooking embellishments to your decorated pages make
them uniquely your own and provide a customized look. Sure,
your photos are unique; but the embellishments you choose
also set your pages and cards apart.
In some ways, scrapbooking embellishments define
scrapbooking, differentiating scrapbooks from mere photo
albums. Maybe I’m giving embellishments too much credit.
After all, journaling plays an important role in setting
scrapbooks apart from photo albums as well.
However, I do stand by the importance of scrapbooking
embellishments in making your designs uniquely yours. The
stickers, flowers, brads, and chipboard decorations help
bring creativity to pages, cards, and paper crafting
projects.
The
Scrapbooking Sticker & Rub-On:
No longer just flat stickers on rolls or in sheets, these
are now available in thousands of styles, many
3-dimensional with clips, brads, and ribbons incorporated
into the designs. They’re fun to use and can help define
your style. Rub-ons for scrapbooking are wonderful
alternatives to stickers, adding an artistic look to your
pages.
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Brads & Clips:
Workhorse embellishments, brads are found in many styles
and colors. From attaching elements together to being the
focal point on a card, scrapbooking brads are easy to use
and add a finished look to components and designs. Along
with brads, scrapbooking clips have become common
embellishments because of their versatility.
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Fibers & Ribbons:
Ribbons, twill, and fibers are easy to use in scrapbooking
and paper crafts, each bringing a specific feeling to
projects. Printed or plain, narrow or wide, ribbons and
twill keep evolving to provide a trendiness to paper
crafting projects.
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Die Cuts, Punch-Outs, & Cut
Outs:
Scrapbooking die cuts have gotten more sophisticated
lately; no longer are they silhouette shapes made from
solid cardstock. Printed and in sheets, today’s die cuts
are more like punch-outs – easy to use and bringing a
finished look to scrapbooking. And the cut-outs are
available in paper, cardstock, and even clear acrylic.
Flowers &
Buttons for Scrapbooking:
Silk flowers and buttons are common scrapbooking
embellishments. They’re versatile and easy to use, and
quickly lend themselves to new techniques and trendy looks.
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Charms & Chipboard:
Whether made from metal or plastic, scrapbooking charms are
clever additions to album pages and mini books. Decorating
chipboard shapes is one of the newest trends in
scrapbooking embellishments; cover them with paper, paint
or stamp on them…the shapes add dimension to projects.
Scrapbooking embellishments are found in all colors,
shapes, and sizes, adding interest and a customized feeling
to any project on which they’re used. It’s fun to
experiment with embellishments, altering them with paint,
ink, or paper, or sanding them to a weathered look. Or use
them as is on scrapbook pages, cards, and paper crafting
projects. It depends on the look you’re after and how much
work you want to put into it. Having a few of each on hand
is helpful and allows you to be free with your designing.
