Embellishments in scrapbooking and free embellishments .

Embellishments???

The true pleasure in scrapbooking, it is obviously to create original pages with the ceaseless research of the small “more”, of the detail which will attract the eye and will hold the attention on our page. One calls this detail the embellishment.

They are thus of small decorations out of metal, wood, paste, embroidery, flower , which contributes to create personal and single page layouts.

How the creativity is always of setting, one can use all the accessories of decoration which one can imagine, even are more unexpected!

There exists, on the market, a multitude of objects of ornaments for your pages, they are sometimes quite practical when resources are missed : this page tries to classify them, without the list which it describes being restrictive because each trade mark leaves new embellishments monthly!

Small metal Objects.

a) Parisian brads or fasteners. They will be used to fix an element on your sheet (flower, photograph, ticket…) or quite simply employed only as decoration.

To place them, it is initially necessary to make a hole with a punch or small point, to thread the brad in the hole and to fold up the two parts by the back. There are extremely varied form and colors.

b) eyelets or eyelets. In fact small objects of metal are placed in a hole made in the sheet using a special grip (punch) and which is crimped, by the arrear with a small tool called “setter”.

As for the brads, the colors and dimensions are very varied: each mark while declining good ten models : one finds some in the shape of heart, of flower…

The eyelets exist in various diameters and many colors : they can serve as simple decoration or can make it possible to bind several elements or to even be used of passage with a wire or a ribbon…

c) the safety pines or nurse pins. Of normal or reduced size, gilded, silver plated or painted they will be useful for you to fix a charm or even quite simply to decorate.

d) the clippies They are all fasten them, paper clips and spring clips of all sizes which there still are used such as they are as decoration or to fix to between-them certain elements of the decoration in a reversible way.

These fasteners can be presented rough or faded.

E) bookplates or label holders. They are most generally out of painted metal and are used like embellishment.

It is very useful to highlight a name, an event, a word or a date.

One can manufacture oneself starting from gauges and, by painting them, give them a metal aspect of it.

One fixes them by sticking them or with small brads.

F) The charms (medals or charms) which one can hang with nurse mini-pins.
The buckles (loops) to associate with the ribbons and which will be used to close album.
The hinge (hinges) of all sizes, the safety pines (nurse pins) which are sold in all sizes and all colors.
The wire (wire) used such as it is or twisted or even used to write a name… or to draw a simple form…

A site where to find tons of charms of all kinds… that can always give ideas! SEE HERE

Small objects out of paperboard, plastic, paper…

a) flowers. They are very sympatic elements of decoration. One finds them declined in a multitude of formats, materials, colors and of style in all the shops of scrapbooking.

You can also use all the dried natural flowers which you will have collected at the time of your walks in the country.

To fix them, use a Parisian fastener or bend them or fix them at the support with double coated tape…

Many trade-marks distribute flowers “scrapbooking”, among most known quote: Artemio, PRIMA, Rayher…

b) anchors or flippies or photo turn. Small spinners of plastic or of aluminum which are fixed with a brad. In general, one buys them with the matched brads although it is not an obligation!

In the beginning, one found these flips behind a framework to fix at it the photograph which was placed there. Its use was diverted for now appearing on the place of the pages of bookscrapping.

c) short props or buttons. They find a choice place onall the pages of scrapbooking. Very practical, they make it possible to embellish easily and to create original effects.

For example, you can create your own letters by sticking your buttons the ones beside the others, or even create a plank around your photographs. The buttons can also appear of the objects: wheels of a pram, balls of Christmas…

You can fix the buttons by bending them or by sticking them, with glue-dowries (not always easy to use without putting full the fingers of them) or with double coated tape.

While excavating a little on your premise, or better, in the attic of your grandmother, you will probably find old women limp filled of buttons and other articles of drapery which you will be able to use for your pages of scrapbooking.

Do not hesitate to use them and so certain buttons have a ring which you find awkward, cut it to the cutting pliers!

d) die-cut or cuttings. They are small forms, cut out in paperboard or very light wood or plastic. Most of the time, they are sold in boards illustrating a precise topic: gardening, sea, genealogy, flowers, hearts…

To give an account of the extreme diversity of the die-cut, I leave you HERE a bond which gives an little idea of it. There are so many marks which developed sections die-cut!

E) tags or labels. The large labels with luggagewere for a long time diverted by the scrappeuses ones to decorate their pages.

Since the basic label until the most varied forms, one finds them in all the retailers of scrap artices.

the tags will be used to you of decoration or journaling for your pages. You will attach them on the sheet with a brad, sometimes a ribbon or a fiber… will dissimulate them to you behind a photograph or in a library-pocket from where they will have to be extracted to read them!

You can also do them yourselves… Some sites propose free models to be printed, cut out and stick on paperboard. For a first address, click HERE. Do not forget to perforate the label and to stick eyelets paper or textile before attaching them.

F) The slide which is mountings of painted and decorated slides and which are used as framework with a text, a part, a title…

The stamps or stamps, truths or forgeries add a note of imagination to your page. To manufacture its false-stamps, there exist scissors “crantors” who imitate the perforations of truths. There exist also stamps which print the shape of stamp on your sheets. Certain font (see HERE) imitate obliterations and are very practical.

Small objects out of fabrics, fiber, wire…

a) Let us ribbons or ribbons. You will find them in drapery of all widths, textures andcolors.

True embellished-sements personalized, the ribbons give relief, color and cheerfulness with all your work of scrapbooking.

To fix them at your sheet, you can sew them at large points, use eyelets, stick them… or even to fasten them: all is possible.

There exist self-adhesive ribbons ready to pose: the magic mesh, kind of "grosgrain empesé".

One often makes use of the ribbons to make nodes, pretty rivet washers! But can be made a pretty rivet washer? Come to see HERE a technique which goes to all the blows! One also makes use of the ribbons to hang a tag, a charm.

b) Strings and fibers and others rafias, wools and twistart… These materials are used in many ways: with a large string stuck on the sheet, one can make a framework around a photograph. One can also hang to a string letters to form a title…

In fact the ideas of use miss. Come HERE to see how one can even write with string. Also think of using these fibers when you connect your mini-album. And finally, with eyelets, you can very make a kind of lacing to the effect déco.

c) lace Them or the prettiest laces are those which you will troiuverez in the forgotten boxes of your large mothers… and will be more beautiful effect in your pages vintage (heritage).

You can to also get you at low cost old laces in the secondhand trades or even in the vacuum-attics! If not all the retailers of scrap articles have which it.

Use them without moderation as framing for your photographs or even directly stuck on your page. They bring a side old, obsolete, charming… a little “out of time”.

Free embellishments

Many sites propose free embellishments to you, especially usable in scrapbooking digital. Launch a research with Google or Yahoo on the word “freebies”…

Let us quote, without seeking to classify them

- http://www.scrap-gratuit.fr/ a true mine for the scrapbookeuse virtual one. Papers, embellishments, sketches… all is there! Referred well and with the contents more than sufficient, this site is one of the references in the field!

- http://www.freedigitalscrapbooking.com/ It is a well-known English site of scrapbookeuses the accros to the digital one. Walk in its menus to discover their very broad choice of embellishments…

- French http://www.digiscrapbook.net/. It is also a trader site but its Freebies section is particularly interesting.

- http://missviviscrap.canalblog.com/ One of many the blogs which distribute freebies. There one can download complete kits including/understanding paper and the embellishments.

To pay its embellishments less expensive

When one lets oneself try, the note can go up very quickly! Then make a turn on ebay… and launch a research on any of the key words written in fat on this page…

For example a research on tags provides 340 results including one good half for the scrapbooking! The word charms gives, him, 950 results. Scrapbooking gives some so much that it is necessary to specify more!