20 Items to Spice Up Your Scrapbooks

Released on: April 6, 2008, 5:15 pm

Press Release Author: Mei Galang

Industry: Internet & Online

Press Release Summary: Your own unique embellishments can add a special personal
touch to your scrapbook pages. It can be used as the main focus of your page, to
highlight items, or as borders. The article gives the 20 best items that can be used
for your scrapbooks.

Press Release Body: A creative way to save and preserve your treasures is through
Scrapbooking. You can place your photographs, newspaper clippings, poems, and
tickets into your scrapbook to display and
preserve your memories. These days Scrapbooking have gradually evolved and there are
new items that can be used to decorate it.

Your own unique embellishments can add a special personal touch to your scrapbook
pages. It can be used as the main focus of your page, to highlight items, or as
borders. Below are 20 best items that can be used:

1. Stickers.
Stickers are fun and easy to stick to scrapbook pages and can be used for captions,
thought bubbles or even to hide mistakes. It is recommended to add stickers that are
related to your theme or have a personal significance for you so that it can
represent a specific experience or hobby.
2. Ribbons and Lace
Can be considered a common border embellishment but it can always add beauty and
elegance because of the flowing nature of both materials encourages a touch of
softness and elegance.

3. Embroidery Cotton
It's individual fibers can be used to highlight items or used to add dimension to
pictures or your items. You can also choose to twist or braid for use in artwork or
as imaginative borders.

4. Hemp
Single, twisted, or braided fibers can be used to accentuate focus objects, as
picture frames, or along the edges of the scrapbook page as borders.
5. Sequins
It can be placed randomly in a variety of colors to give a dramatic, abstract, playful
attraction to items and pages or it can be arranged in specific patterns and colors
the effects can be elegant and dainty.
6. Rhine Stones
Rhinestones add color and shine to your scrapbook pages making any dull page more
exciting.
7. Dried Flowers
Dried flowers can be used to add elegance and as an accent in scrapbooks.
8. Popcorn Garlands
Create a cloud punch out of popcorns from a regular paper, crinkle it and roll into
tight balls. Glue it together to make garlands, a sure eye candy for your scrapbook.
9. Glitter
Glitter can add a wonderful sparkle to your borders and fonts but it can also create
a huge mess if you don't apply it properly so be careful!
10. Acrylic Paint
Acrylic paint can be use to draw and paint embellishments or create accents around
focus objects.

11. Liquid Appliqué
Liquid appliqué can be use to draw and paint embellishments or create accents around
focus objects. Simply squeeze the liquid gently onto or around the desired image or
form.
12. Fabric
Fabric can be used as a background or as a border to add dimension and texture to
your scrapbook.
13. Pockets
You can temporarily store objects in a pocket added on your scrapbook.
14. Eyelets
Eyelets are round stub-like pieces of metal. These items are generally used as a way
to anchor difficult or heavy objects to your scrapbook pages.
15. Hinges
Hinges are used to make permanent and strong pop up windows.
16. Moldable Foam
Moldable foam allows you to create three dimensional object, borders or backgrounds.
You can even use moldable form to make your own rubber stamps.
17. Buttons
Adding buttons to a scrapbook page can as simple as adding a ready-made button. You
can also create customized buttons that match your theme.
18. Charms
Charms can be added to memento, graduation, or gift scrapbooks to create a
personalized feeling to the page.
19. Crystal Lacquer
Crystal lacquer adds shine and protection to your photographs. This shine adds a
soft elegance to any scrapbook page.

20. Beading
Beads can add color and design to a scrapbook.

Over the years, scrapbooking has matured into an art. It is no longer about pasting
newspaper clippings into messy bundles of paper. It has evolved into an art with no
rules, creativity and imagination are your only limits. Now armed with a few helpful
hints and ideas on items that can add life to your scrapbook it's time for happy
scrapbooking!

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