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Scrapbooking Embellishments have gone to a whole new level with the introduction of brass metal adornments. These decorate the corners of your book covers nicely. Add these new scrapbook embellishments to your next project and see a whole new world open up for you in the area of creativity.

Have you found yourself searching online for a gallery of scrapbooks that you can look at to get new ideas? Here is a newsflash, “Everybody else does it too!” I highly recommend this approach to the artist who is always on the look out for creative ways to look at an age old art and “I do mean it is an ART!” Search the internet search engines for web pages dedicated to your subject. A favorite way of mine is to go onto eBay and hunt for books that are put up for auction. You don’t want to copy ideas you find from other artists, but it is pleasing to see how somebody else made custom pages for scrap books. Spend a few minutes on the internet every day for a week looking for new ideas.

Change the color scheme or photograph sizes. Change embellishments attached to the pages. Remember this tip… most photographs will be in calibrated sizes, 4 X 6 or 5 X 7 sizes. Do not use weird sizes like 5 X 8 just because it fits the spot on a page. Add a “border” to bring the blank picture space down to 5 X 7. There are many ways to attach the photographs to the page. Some prefer a ribbon attached to the page that allows the photograph to slide in and out. Some prefer corner pieces.

One new creative technique to hold photographs in place is to slide their corners under beautiful metal diestruck designs. Use glue dots or take a cotton ball and cut it in half. Soak it in E6000 glue and lay it under the brass. Place a clothes pin or weight on top. When the glue dries the cotton ball will harden and hold the scrapbooking embellishments firmly in place on the page.

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