Scrapbook Borders

May 14th, 2008 Subscribe To Our Feed

Your printed documents, be they photos, clippings, etc can be preserved in the form of albums. Decorate those albums to make them attractive. This is what scrapbooking is all about. There are a lot of different factors that go into a scrapbook. That is why companies have scrapbooking catalogs. You can request them and use them to order supplies or just ideas.

An average scrapbooking catalog has about 500 stamp designs and lots of card ideas. You can use these ideas to produce stunning scrapbooks.

The stamp designs in scrapbooking catalogs include flowers, birds, horses, spring etc. There are separate stamp designs for expressing thank you, sympathy, get well, mother’s day, father’s day, wedding day and much more.

Scrapbooking catalog requests can be made to receive scrap tools like acrylic block sets, rubber scissors, knives, blades, paper trimmer, and circle scissors. You can get this from online or brick and mortar stores and use them to make scrapbooking stamp designs. Acrylic block sets comes in various sizes. The sets allow you to do craft work to make some wonderful designs. Rubber scissors allow you to do paper cutting. The blades are very sharp making your work much easier. The knives have 5 replacement blades and you can cut any shape. A paper trimmer cuts any light weight paper with correct measurements. The circle scissors help you to cut an exact circle which you may find difficult to cut with normal scissors.

The Heartfelt Creations allow you to get catalog for $20 and you get rubber images worth $ 30 absolutely free. The catalog contains various products. The sentiment sets include appreciation, greetings, in laws, parents, grandparents etc. You can also get curved greetings and mini message sets. The message sets are slightly curved rubber images with white background and black letters.

There are separate scrap sets for various relations in the scrapbooking catalog. You can get a catalog for your father, mother, sister, brother, wife\husband, niece, and nephew and so on. You can get the alphabet sets that have deeply carved rubber images in white background with black imprinted letters. You can also get background shades by placing a catalog request.

Apart from this you have number of options that will allow you to select and use the designs and tools. The scrapbooking catalog request can be made online. The scrapbooking catalog request will help you to find exactly what you want. Making a scrapbooking catalog request also keeps you up to date about new scrapbooking products in the market without spending more money and time. You can place your catalog request in many ways. If you purchase some scrapbooking designs or tools from a supplier then he will send you the new scrapbooking catalogs regularly.

You can also request a free copy of a scrap booking catalog online by filling a subscription card in the scrap booking club. This will minimize your expenses. There are number of scrapbooking catalogs. You can compare the quality and prices and then you can order for any scrap booking design and tools. Scrapbooking catalogs contain designs for every special occasion. The catalog will help you to select the tools, techniques and designs to make your scrapbook stand out.

Been there, done that, scrapped a page about it.

Ken

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Borders for Scrapbooks

March 28th, 2008 Subscribe To Our Feed

Here are a few ideas for borders for scrapbooks.

To improve the look and “glitter” of your scrapbook, you need look no further than the lowly border. Most every page has one. No longer attached to the outside of a page, it now can be put around any item in the scrapbook. Around photos, around clippings, around the whole page, virtually anywhere. They really are quite versatile. Proper borders go a long way towards the finished look of the project.

Simple borders can be made with stickers. As long as the stickers don’t conceal any of the photos, there shouldn’t be a problem. The stickers themselves should be narrow and should fill the area from the border to close to the edge of the page. To start a border, get a ruler. You need a ruler to make sure that your border isn’t too crooked or not at the right angle. For a square or rectangular simple border, draw two lines around the entire page. One for the inside edge of the presentation and the other about the width of the stickers your are using inside the first one. This creates an area where you can load up with stickers or maybe as alternative, rubber stamps. The stamp can be applied with different colors to make the border more creative.

One method of using rubber stamps to make creative borders is to try a border of multicolored stamps along only one side of the page. They can even be enhanced once they are placed within the border. Using multi-color pencils will make your scrapbook border look more attractive. Once you have your border laid down, then drawing square-line border should be created around the photos or clippings with pencils of various colors.

Effective borders can also be created with stencils. Pens and wavy-lined stencils can increase the attractiveness of your scrapbook. Die cuts of stencils can be made easily with the help of exacto knives. They make wonderful borders especially along one side to across the page at the top and bottom.

Of course you could always go digital for your scrapbook borders. That opens a whole new slew of possibilities. It also saves a goodly amount of time since everything can be copied and placed (pasted) so easily. The great advantage of digital borders is the ease that you can get premade templates from literally hundreds of sites. Or you could use lots of programs these days to create your own. Oh go ahead be a scrapbooking rogue. You know you want to. The point is that there are lots of forms of borders for scrapbooks.

Been there, done that, scrapped a page about it.

Ken