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From "Scrapbooking"
episode SCB-257 |
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Standard scrapbooking kits, like this baby kit and family vacation kit, are usually organized around a theme. These theme kits contain several sheets of decorative paper, coordinating stencils, stickers, and die-cut borders and frames.
This vellum scrapbooking kit includes design ideas with several sheets of patterned vellum and matching die-cut photo mats.
Use your favorite tools to give kit materials your own look. Here I used decorative edging scissors to add a deckle edge to a die-cut frame from the baby kit.
I used pretty decorative paper, cardstock, and a die-cut frame from the baby kit and embellished the page with coordinating stickers. Coordinating kit materials make mix and match easy.
Try out different ideas with kit stencils, like layering duplicate cutouts.
Here, one stencil from the baby kit was used to make the overlapping flower frame.
The idea sheet from the vellum scrapbooking kit suggested using patterned vellum to frame a vintage photograph. I layered the vellum sheets and added a deckle edge with decorative edging scissors.
This album cover, wrapped with decorative paper and a birthday hat, gives a clue to the contents of the scrapbook. Transform your scrapbook covers with paper, fabric, faux fur you name it!
Animal print fur gives a teen scrapbook a properly wild look.
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By Holly Christian
Craft designer and writer
There are lots of ways to add your own creative look to scrapbooking kits and albums. Though the materials may be standard, after you've mixed and matched and added a bit of rubber stamping, embossing or fake fur, the result will be all yours.
Scrapbooking kits vary from company to company. Kits are often organized around a theme -- family vacation, school days, teen scene, to name a few -- or around specialized scrapbooking materials or techniques. Theme kits, like those made by Fiskars, include stencil pattern templates, cardstock and decorative paper, and coordinating borders, frames, die-cuts and stickers. The papers are all reversible, so there are a variety of ways to mix and match patterns. As a person who usually picks and chooses each individual page element separately, I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed using the kit materials. The paper patterns and colors were appealing and offered a welcome change from stock paper.
A vellum scrapbooking kit by Remember When contained several sheets of patterned vellum and die-cut photo mats. Design ideas included in the kit were helpful. I especially like the look of layered vellum used with vintage photographs on black cardstock.
All of a cropper's favorite tools can be used to add a personal touch to kit materials. Decorative edging scissors is one of my standard tools, and I used them to add a deckle edge to kit die-cuts and patterned vellum. Pull out rubber stamps, embossing materials and favorite die-cut patterns to use with your kits. And don't forget about supplies left over from other projects; scraps of origami paper or a pressed flower or two might complement your project nicely.
Find new ways to use the kit materials. I traced a flower stencil pattern on several different colors of cardstock, then overlapped the cutouts to make a frame with extra petals. Make multiples of some of the stencils and play around with them. See what you come up with.
Scrapbook covers can be personalized as well. Post bound and strap hinge albums can be taken apart and reassembled after the covers are decorated. Consider covering an album cover with fabric, paper, faux fur, or even decoupage. It will surely make it your own! Holly Christian was a frequent contributor to HGTV Ideas magazine and has written for other national publications.
RESOURCES :
My School Memories: A Scrapbooking Kit
Author: Scholastic Press Editors
Scholastic Press (Scholastic, Inc.)
Website: www.scholastic.com
Acid-free Mini Scrapbook Starter Kit
Highsmith® Consumer Products Division
Website: www.highsmith.com
Heritage Scrapbook Kit
Model: 3220-7097
Available at craft supply retailers.
All 'Bout Children and Heaven Sent Scrapbook Kits
Fox Tales LLC
We apologize no further information is available.
Scrapbooking Kits (Club Scrap)
Club Scrap, Inc.
Club Scrap
Holly Christian
Craft artist and writer
Holly Christian
Website: www.hollychristian.com
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