- Thinking outside of standard scrapbooking trends can put you on the road to original pages.scrapbooking image by Philippe MICHAUD from Fotolia.com
Scrapbooking is a popular pastime with a multitude of accessories available to hobbyists. Thinking outside of standard scrapbooking trends can put you on the road to original pages. Considering unusual ideas, such as incorporating vintage materials, craft foam creations and alternative layouts, can make for a truly customized scrapbook. - Incorporating vintage elements in your scrapbook can give your pages an aged appearance and an old-world appeal. Use vintage postcards and vintage style prints alongside contemporary scrapbook paper and embellishments for a touch of retro inspiration. Attach vintage buttons, ribbon and fabric to scrapbook pages in place of modern scrapbook paper and stickers. Consider printing your photos in black and white color schemes or in sepia tones to coordinate them with your vintage accessories. This might also make for an appropriate layout to honor your older photos of grandparents and great grandparents. Adding vintage elements to your memories will help you to work unusual and interesting pages into your scrapbook.
- Craft foam makes for a versatile scrapbooking supply that you can use in a number of ways. Due to its flat surface, craft foam is particularly nice for building volume on scrapbook pages, such as beneath photos and visual focal points on a page to make them stand out. A fun and easy scrapbooking idea is to build foam doors and windows that open and close on a page, revealing a photo or image beneath. Cutting out a square of craft foam with a second and smaller square cut from its interior creates an instant window or door. Improvise a working hinge with a large piece of clear tape attached from the page to one side of the interior square before gluing the outer frame over top of it. Constructing simple elements with craft foam can make for fun scrapbooking details.
- Installing a series of time-lapsed photos onto a scrapbook page can make for a sentimental statement. This layout is easier to accomplish using older photos that are more readily available from a sequence of time. For instance, you can create a page that pays homage to your mother or father by offering a time line of photos with the dates or ages disclosed. Display photos from childhood, middle in chronological order, with each photo serving as a celebration of that moment in time. You can use this same layout to display grades school photos, important events and birthdays. Displaying photographic time lines is a unique way to honor old photographs.
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