Ideas For Scrapbooking Borders And Embellishments
Here at ‘Create Your Own Scrapbooks’ we’re always on the lookout for fresh ideas for scrapbooking that allow you to use materials and objects you could find at home or might have collected while on vacation. Not only does this help keep scrapbooking a relatively inexpensive hobby but it also helps you to think of new ways to create uniquely personalized pages that will carry even more significance for your family and friends over the years.
These are some ideas that may help you create new and exciting scrapbooking page toppers, borders and embellishments.
Fabric Flowers
Fabric flowers make great embellishments on scrapbook pages. Unlike plastic flowers, fabric flowers look more realistic. They also have a long life span. Flowers are made with fabric and wire. Make a wire loop. This will be one petal. Next, apply glue to the petal, and place fabric on top. Alternately, stretch a piece of an old nylon over the loop and secure with tape. Continue making loops until you have enough to make a flower. Then, twist the wires together. Fold out your flower and secure to your scrapbook page.
Traditional Hawaiian Lei Borders
Leis are the beautiful traditional Hawaiian garlands that are often given as an expression of love and affection and used to celebrate important personal events such as weddings, birthdays, graduations and so on. They can be used to make fancy three-dimensional borders and certainly add an exotic touch to holiday scrapbooks.
A traditional Lei is made using paper orchids, roses, rounded mums and cup and saucer flowers with punched shapes, which are then glued together. To add a richer texture, cut these follows from velveteen paper. You can use ready-made leis or make your own.
Bead Or Shell Lei Borders
Here’s another idea for using leis to make three-dimensional borders in a slightly different way.
A beaded lei is made by stringing large and small beads onto a string of embroidery cotton. Small yellow flowers and red berries can be added to create an even greater effect. Gluing shells together and placing them directly on the scrapbook page makes a shell lei.
Using handmade borders and embellishments like these create an instantly recognizable theme in your scrapbook page and you’ll know that your album is unlike any other! These techniques can be adapted to suit all kinds of projects, from holiday scrapbooks to kid’s scrapbook journals. See how many ideas you can come up with!
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