Embellish your pages of scrap: manufacture by yourselves your labels!

Since how long do you scrap ?

I call that scrapping since the birth of my daughter, before I made "bidouillage" with my photographs, without knowing that there existed really a style.

I started by discovering a Scrap review, then I returned like member in Asso "ScrapLandes". Thanks to the exchanges of supplies, techniques, know-how-to, but also with the workshops, and especially with all the girls who take part in it, I enriched my discoveries.

Thus, I discovered the Forums dedicated to scrap, the challenges, the Kits and shops, and I pass from there. I spend sometimes more time on Internet than on my Scrap table

What do you prefer to do out of Scrap?

As opposed to what will be able to think people, I am not attracted by DIGITAL Scrap and yet my trade makes that I am well to do in the assemblies photographs…

My initial trade is Plastician, I need to touch the matter, to have relief. Moreover, I adore to excavate, cloud, divert objects of their original direction.

I adore to paint, but does not manage to put painting in my scrap, or very seldom… In fact, which I like, it is to start from my photograph, to take my papers offcuts, and to take objects which trail and to assemble the whole.

Thus on some of my achievements, one finds ear rings, an end of calendar, a piece of fabric of a torn cloth… I never know what I will do… It is my material which guides me… It is strange… I like much the challenges where one chooses ingredients on a set of themes, which correspond to quite precise constraints… That learns how to be exceeded, to make things that initially we put on the side.

The small one more out of scrap, it is the choice of the embellishments. Each scrapbooker is different by this choice.

With the labels you can make full with thing : to write above, ink, tear them, hide them, or right pose them.

At this time, I create my series of labels which I post free on my blog and on my Flickr gallery. To see my sketches enough leaving to the dustbin, I decided to keep them and especially to divide them. I like to choose topics which touch my friends scrapbookers, and to approach them in another manner that those proposed in the trade.

For the moment, I am with all to divide. If I have the heart, I will take other steps in order to officialize the things, and to touch more people.

Which are your preferred colors?

I like blue and chestnut…. I often find myself vis-a-vis an main issue…. I never buy orange… And yet I find that superb on certain pages.

In fact it is the textured aspect, the printed papers form which influence me more. I am not able to say to me: “today, I need this color for such project”… The color that I exhaust most quickly is the red…. I always put some keys of them.

What brings scrap to you?

Friends (and the true ones!!! Between the girls of the asso, the meetings at the time of Crop'), of the Creativity (what I like over all), of passion, the smile with each time I see my scrap table which overflows of not-finished projects. In short that happiness!!!

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 Embellishments labels?

I know what you will say to me… I cannot draw… I do not have ideas… That's no problem! Here some easy ways to make you your own labels.

You can start from your photographs, a topic, publicity or titles of articles of magazine, all is source of inspiration.

It is not necessary to write 3 tons of Texts, with a word sometimes all is known as. Think of simplicity.

 With Word… quite simply!

To carry them out, several solutions are offered to you… I propose an accessible solution to you and to any person having a torture machine answering the soft name of "Computer".

Then, a software such as Word can be enough…. Of course for the real pros, there exist other more suitable software such Photoshop, Corel Draw, Illustrator…. But there, I prefer to make simple…

Thus you open a new Document with Word, then take the tool “Text Zone”. With it, you draw a rectangle.

You obtain a virgin rectangle with a edge. This edge can be a more or less thick line, but also of dotted lines: it is enough to modify the properties of them.

In this rectangle, you write your Text while exploiting the colors, the sizes of letters, the font faces (downloadable free on www.dafont.com), and their position.

You can superimpose text zones as in the example “Mutine & Romantique” the first Zone of Text for the 2 texts, one second zone for “&”

 Vary the forms!

You can draw rounds, rectangles, to wichyou can allot an edging (full lines or dotted lines, various thickness).

Then you take the lines tool, which can have at its ends of the arrows, of the rounds….

There exist “automatic forms”, are used for of to be made labels with brackets or hooks, it's the latest fashion...

 You launch!

With the various examples and the tutorials in image, I think that you can now launch you in the adventure of the labels house…

Small trick: You can print your labels on thick supports, papers of beige color, Scrap papers with textured bottoms, that will give another appearance to these last.

With regard to my labels, I make small doodles during I look at the TV, or in the waiting rooms. I scan, vectorized and redraw then on the desktop publishing softwares…. I find that more complex to explain you. But if you need advises, do not hesitate to ask me : I will answer you without any concern.

Good scrap !

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Works to be discovered!