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Altered Art: Embellishing Your Altered Art

Embellishing is essentially the last step in the process. It is like decorating your home. You have to get the walls painted, the floor or carpet changed and then you can add the accessories. The same goes for a scrapbook layout or a piece of altered art. Choosing your embellishments might be the hardest part, if you aren’t already prepared with a design ahead of time. A good piece of advice, is to take it with you to the scrapbook or craft store the next time you go, and look for coordinating items that will work. As I noted yesterday, … Continue reading →

Altered Art: The Covered Piece

Altered art is extremely popular in the scrapbooking community these days. Scrapbookers seem to get their hands on all sorts of fun and interesting items to change and alter and make their own. Some scrapbookers are even altering their scrapbooking tools and supply totes. I love the idea! Yesterday I gave you step by step directions to get started with altering your CD container. Today I plan to show you how the finished product works. Remember – there is absolutely no right or wrong way to do altered art. Some might just cover it with paper and be done with … Continue reading →

Altered Art: How to Alter a CD Container

Everyone is into altering items these days, but for a scrapbooker it is a creative outlet and a use for all those supplies that collect dust. Are you interested in altering a CD container or case and unsure of how to get started? This article will show you how to alter a CD container. To get started, you will need both a CD container as well as the paper you plan to cover it in. You can choose to use only one pattern, or you can do what I did in this project and use several for different areas of … Continue reading →

Altered Pencil Box

It is always fun to use our scrapbooking supplies for things other than creating layouts. I recently created several gifts for my children’s friends using my scrapbook supplies. I created customized pencil boxes for each of the children. I tried to match paper and embellishments to each of their personalities. I would like to share the details of the creations here. Collect Supplies. I picked up the pencil boxes at the dollar store. I made sure that all of the edges were flat because that makes it easier to cover with paper. The next step was to go through my … Continue reading →

The Little Bits

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So last time I talked about my failure to use outlines for the majority of my time as a student. Even now that I’ve just discovered at least one way to use them that is productive for me, it still seems I’m missing the bigger picture concerning outlines. At any rate, as I now have the most massive document I’ve ever had to write to date staring me in the face (my dissertation), I find myself needing more guidance than I’ve ever needed before. I need some form of direction with individual parts before I can begin writing even something … Continue reading →

Cheap Scrapbooking Supplies From The Bathroom 2

Nobody could possibly believe that it is possible to find scrapbooking supplies in the bathroom? This is the second part of a two article series on discovering frugal supplies and embellishments in the bathroom of your own house. You more than likely already have these items, and it will be fun to discover how you can use them on your scrapbook layouts. Barrettes and Bobby Pins – These are fantastic accessories to use as embellishments on your scrapbooking layouts. They can be altered, inked, embossed, painted or otherwise to make them coordinate with your layouts. They act the same way … Continue reading →

How To Create Your Own Metal Tags (2)

We have been learning how to create your own coordinating metal rimmed tags to use on your layouts. At this point in the previous steps, you should have at least one empty tag and your supplies gathered together to create your new tag. Step #4 – Creating The New Look – As you removed the original paper that was inserted in the metal tag, you probably noticed that it was originally slipped in between the rims of the metal tag. This is not important anymore. At this time, you are going to adhere the paper or other item you are … Continue reading →

How To Create Your Own Metal Tags (1)

Most scrapbookers are looking for elements or embellishments that coordinate with their layouts. Either the paper that is used or the embellishment is the same color, or theme. Finding metal tags that coordinate with different layouts is difficult. Not all paper manufacturers or companies make metal tags that coordinate with their different scrapbooking lines. So it is up to us to figure out how to customize these fun embellishments to work with our own scrapbook layouts. It is not a very difficult process, but it does take some time and effort to accomplish. Step #1 – Select Your Tags – … Continue reading →

Scrapbooking Week in Review for January 14-20, 2008

With all of the cold weather that is hitting all over the US, hopefully you are able to get some scrapbooking done. Basically its a great time to stay inside, keep warm and work on getting caught up. Here’s what has been happening in the scrapbooking blog this week. File Formats For Digital Scrapbooking Layouts (2) We have been discussing file formats for digital scrapbooking layouts and here are a few more to understand and become familiar with. .TIFF or .TIF A .TIF file is a non-lossy file format for saving graphic files. File Formats For Digital Scrapbooking Layouts (1) … Continue reading →

Finding Items to Alter With Your Scrapbooking Supplies

The best part of altered art is that it is an unending creative outlet. Altering something just means changing it from its original state or purpose. This makes unlimited possibilities with what you decide to alter. In my frugal living lifestyle, I am always reusing items for new purposes. But now the same can be said for my scrapbooking. Recently I altered an AOL CD cover and turned it into a case to hold a mini-scrapbook I created of my five children. However, the possibilities for what it could hold are simply endless. The scrapbooking industry is on top of … Continue reading →