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Creative Scrapbooking Ideas On How to create layered button embellishments

If you’ve buttons and leftover scrapbooking papers then I think you’ll love this video. It shows how you can make use of your buttons and also your papers to create layered button embellishments. This video was created by Craft Channel and I’m embedding it here in case you haven’t seen it. Note they are using this ideas for card making but I think you can also extend it to your scrapbooking project :)

What I like about the idea of layered button embellishments?

First of all, it make use of whatever leftover scrap papers that we have and help to maximize its used. Buttons are easy to find and are very cheap. You can get many different colors and size at the craft shops.

What you should do to create layered button embellishments?

1) Take your scrap paper of whatever colors that you want

2) Use your cutter or punch to get the shape that you want

3) Glue them together

4) Put the buttons together to create the 3D embellishments

It’s very simple. I’ll let the ladies at Craft Channel explain it to you :)

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The Scrapbook Embellishment Handbook – Why A Creative Scrapbooker Shouldn’t Just Ignore It

Embellishment is something that’s always on the list of creative scrapbookers and crafters alike. When they go to the craft store, they might spends some times checking out the embellishment sections in the shops for new and in season embellishments kits and ideas.

To me, in this part of the world, buying embellishment kits can be an expensive thing to do .What more if you just cannot stop putting it in your scrapbook ‘to buy list’. That’s why sometimes, creating your own embellishment kits can be a good thing. It might not be of the same quality or shape as the one in the shop but you can be more creative in making it.

You can make use of your colorful scrap papers that you keep and combine it with buttons, ribbons and other items to make a brand new embellishment kits for your creative scrapbooking project.

But where do you go for ideas on embellishment for your scrapbook?

In my opinion, you can check out Scrapbook Embellishment Handbook by Sherry Steveson.

The Scrapbook Embellishment Handbook

The Scrapbook Embellishment Handbook

This book is cool and you can get a lot of ideas from it. It covers popular types of embellishment and also shows how you can use them in your layouts. Some of things that they cover include fibers, buttons, die cut, flowers and many others. There are 17 of them altogether.

Having 17 different embellishment can be overwhelming for beginners but don’t fret about it because they cover how a beginner can use it and later progress to intermediate and advanced level for each type. There are mini step by step for you to check out also.

My favorites among the 17 are flowers and stamps. Maybe it’s just me because I’m a beginner scrapbooker :)

The Scrapbook Embellishment Handbook

One thing that I like most about this book is the color and design inspiration that I can learn from the scrapbooking artists that take part in the book. They make the process looks so easy and simple..heck..maybe it’s easy and I should try it myself.

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Creative Scrapbooking Ideas for Valentine’s Day

Creative Scrapbooking Ideas for Valentine’s Day – Are you up for it?

Valentine’s Day is coming and I believe many of us are looking for creative ideas to celebrate it with our loved one. With the financial recession and rising prices, many people are feeling the pinch and having shrinking budget. While it’s nice to splash on your loved one, celebrating your Valentine’s Day on budget can be romantic too. Nobody said that it’s has to be expensive to be loved :)

Sunday, Feb14th is just around the corner so if you plan to have a DIY creative scrapbooking present for your partner, I suggest that you start now.  You can use your scrapbooking skills to create a budget gift for your loved one.  If you really don’t know what to buy, you can even purchase a gift card and create a beautiful gift card holder using your scrapbooking papers and embellishments supplies to go along with it.

I saw somebody posted this you tube videos on scrapbooking ideas for the valentine’s day. You might find some inspirations in it.

How about scrapbooking album or card for your Valentine’s Day gift?

If you’ve beautiful and meaningful photos of yourself and your loved one together, why not use them to create a Valentine Scrapbooking Album and use it as a personalize gift? You don”t need a full album for that, few pages should do. Light blue or white with red might be a good scheme for theme color. You can use heart ‘cut out’ or embellishments to decorate your special pages. Embossing can be good too.

Check out this short video for some creative scrapbooking ideas for the Valentine’s Day

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Scrapbooking Color Scheme – How do I Select Color For Scrapbook Pages

Choosing a color scheme for my scrapbook pages is not something that I’m good at.

I’m always on the lookout for tips and ideas on choosing the suitable color themes that will make my pages stand out. Whenever  I find interesting tips, I normally blog about it. My main intention is to share what I found and also for own own reference in the future. You’ll find several posts about color schemes that I wrote previously in the related post below.

When I was browsing the internet for some color ideas for my other websites t0day, I found this useful site called color scheme designer. Basically, it gives preview of the color when you choose different schemes. I found it very useful so I thought you might be interested as well.

There is a color wheels for mono, complement, triad, tetrad, anologic and accented anologic that you can play around on the site. I’m not quite sure what most of them mean but by playing with the wheel you can see how the color changes. There’s also option for warm and cold hues, which gives you ideas of what color is considered ‘warm’ and ‘cold’ respectively. If you can’t remember -  red, orange and yellow are considered warm color and green, blue and violet are grouped under cold colors.

You can also adjust the color wheel to see the effect of the color combination.

Color combination using accented logic pallette

Color combination using accented logic pallette

In my opinion, this color wheel is not only useful if you’re building sites or doing some color works but can be used for ideas for the scrapbooking projects too. You can play with the color combination to see the one that is pleasing to the eyes without the need to invest in anything upfront. Once you’re comfortable with your color combo, then you can snap a photo of it or print it for your shopping list later.

Check out Color Scheme Designer at this link and start playing with the color wheel for your scrapbooking color scheme ideas :)

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Scrapbooking Your New Year Vision

Scrapbooking Your New Year Vision – How To Do It?

With the coming of new year, we’ll typically take a moment to reflect our achievement in the past year and also our new year resolutions. In our mind, we try to picture what we want to achieve in the coming year and where we want to be in the months to come.

Did you know that a vision without plan will normally will not get you anywhere? Similarly, if you can’t even visualize what you want to achieve, you’ll have a hard time reminding yourself of your resolutions.

So, why not try to create a scrapbook page of your vision?

As a scrapbooker, we normally scrapbook about our past memories. We try to keep those memories in our scrapbooking arts books. Some of us painstakingly decorate and write captions and journal to reflect our memory.  These beautifully decorated pages has emotion attached to it.

I believe we should also scrapbook about our future. What I meant was scrapbook about our vision, our target. It should be pretty easy because we can let our imagination run wild. For example, you can create a page for your whole new year resolutions and also break it down to more pages to illustrate what you want to achieve in each months. Write some journals and attached some photos and scrapbooking embellishment to these pages.

Use Your Scrapbooking Skills to Create Your New Year Visions

Use Your Scrapbooking Skills to Create Your New Year Visions

For example, if one of your new year resolution is to have more money, why not attach photos of money next to a smiling photo of yourself? If you feel that the photos that you have is not good enough, stock photos or royalty free images might be useful for you.  Keep these pages within your reach so that you can always refer to them when you feel down.  Seeing these beautiful arrangement everyday and reading your own journal detailing what you want to achieve will help you keep your new year resolutions in checks.

What do you think? Please comment below to tell me.

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Scrapbooking Your New Year Vision