Cut Scrapbooking
Posted in Arts and Crafts on 05/14/2010 01:52 pm by adminCut Scrapbooking
Scrapbookers, listen up! There’s more to altering and cropping your photos than simply matting them or double matting them on cardstock. Those techniques are a good beginning, but with a little thinking outside the box, you can do so much more!
Here are twenty things you can do to spruce up your photographs.
- Are you using digital photographs? Add your journaling digitally, directly on the photograph before printing. You then free up space for additional journaling, embellishments or more pictures.
- Cut your pictures into appropriate shapes. For example, if your layout features flowers, you might trim and cut your photos into a flower shape. This is particularly easy to do if you are using photo editing software, but it can also be done with printed photographs by using a template or stencil.
- Round off the corners of your photographs with a corner punch
- Add decorative cuts to the corners of your photographs using punches. Attach double sided sticky tape to the underside of the punched areas. Sprinkle with glitter, micro beads, Pearlex, colored sand or any other item that sticks. Save the punched out shapes and use as embellishments elsewhere.
- Tint your black and white or sepia photographs with commercial products made for that purpose, or do the tinting digitally before printing.
- Make a large photograph out of the background or the landscape. Use this large photograph as your background paper, then attach your matted photographs on this paper. For instance, if your layout is about your mountain camping trip, print a scenery image the same of your layout. Use this as the background for your other images.
- Make a large photograph using landscape or background images. Using a stencil, cut alphabets from this picture and use for your title or other journaling.
- If the picture has a large element, such as a close-up of a person, cut the person out of the snapshot and matt against a different background.
- Tear or burn the edges of the photograph for an aged look. Rub the torn edges with chalk or stamping ink to give a browned, aged appearance.
- Stamp a frame directly on a photograph. Solvent inks like Stazon work well on glossy photo paper but pigment or dye inks may not hold.
- Take a laser photocopy of your photograph and then use the laser copy to make decorative transfers.
- Punch one or more holes in the photograph. Thread fiber or ribbon through the hole.
- Attach eyelets or brads to a photograph.
- Using a pencil, draw interconnecting jigsaw like shapes on the back of a photograph. Be careful not to draw through a face. Number the shapes consecutively and then cut out. Reassemble the photo on card stock, gluing down the pieces but leaving a small space in between for the matting to show through.
- Attach your photo to the bottom of a scrapbook shaker box.
- Sandpaper parts or all of a photo to obtain an aged, damaged look.
- Cut a photo into a tag shape. Mat it with a card stock tag that is slightly larger than the photo.
- Cut small circular or oval shapes from a photo and attach to the bottom of a clear, flat marble or plastic “bubble.” Use as an embellishment.
- Make a self-framed photograph by cutting a rectangular shape out of the middle of a photograph. Trim 1/8 inch away from all four sides and then re-assemble the photograph over a colored matting. See an example here: http://scrappingbydesign.com/blog/?p=48
- Cover small, selected areas of your photograph with a decoupage product such as Crystal Lacquer or Dimensional Magic.
Digital and hybrid scrapbookers will find it easy to incorporate many of these photo altering techniques digitally.
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What to use to cut 6×6 chipboard?
I just started making mini albums but have been scrapbooking for awhile. My local scrapbook store sells chipboard in 12×12 but would like to know if there is a certain die that will cut 6×6. I would like to refrain from purchasing already cut 6×6 chipboard online since i already have lots of 12×12. Is there a sizzix die that will cut a 6×6 square for my mini albums?
i personally use the yellow honey bee scissors, or my ac-too knife. Make sure you have a new or very sharp blade.
Digital Scrapbooking Video Tutorial – Digitally cut a photograph in Adobe Photoshop Elements 7
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