Creative Scrapbooking Tips

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

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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