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Scrapbooking With Die Cuts
Scrapbooking has been around for a lot longer than most of us can imagine. People are fond of keeping memorable items that help them relive cherished moments from the past. Despite the emergence of the electronic age, people still love making good old-fashioned scrapbooks with paper. Not only is scrapbooking a good way to exercise your creativity, it is also a fun way to relax at the end of a long day. While many people would like try scrapbooking, they think they aren't creative enough to make their scrapbooks look nice and interesting. Of course no one wants to look at boring, dreary albums and most people don't think they are artistic enough to make a fabulous scrapbook. This dilemma an be easily solved. Those who are new to making scrapbooks may benefit from using scrapbook-making kits that are widely available in bookstores and craft stores. Die cuts can also spice up any scrapbook page in a New York minute! Not only will your pages look more professional, they will also come together faster. Die cuts can be used as backgrounds or liners for photos. Pictures are highlighted more when they are pasted on an interesting background rather than just plain paper. It's nice to make die cut backgrounds that are related to the picture. For instance, a class picture would look pretty when pasted in a die cut shaped like a book. Die cuts make the picture appear to pop out. Die cuts can also be pasted throughout a page to establish a theme for that particular part of the scrapbook. A page featuring something like Christmas pictures could well be decorated by die cuts shaped as Christmas trees, holly, candy canes, and other Christmas-y shapes. Die cuts can also be placed on top of each other to create depth. This would give an illusion of having three-dimensional images that are definitely better looking than flat designs. You can also use die cuts as space fillers for pages yet to be pasted with pictures and other items. Scrapbook making can be a long-term project and just having blank pages would make an incomplete scrapbook look even more deficient. Since die cuts are not written or drawn directly on paper, they can still be removed in case the pictures to be placed in the future would not match the die cut designs.
Some tips to get started: When you have a plan for a page, don't start glueing pieces in place until you've played around with them a little bit! You would be surprised at the ideas you get as you "play" with different pictures, die cuts, stickers and other items. I'm a very "messy" crafter. I take lots and lots of things off my shelves to play with before I come up with my final plan. I also enjoy looking through scrapbooking books and magazines for ideas. It's amazing when you see someone else's idea, but you don't have those exact supplies---so you just use what you have and come up with a project that is nothing like the picture you were looking at! Home Our Products Shop By Brand Discount Scrapbooking Supplies Send Free Greeting Cards New Items Cardmaking Tagmaking FAQ's Policies Contact Us Site Map About Us Links  |
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