Using Creative Lettering to Enhance Your Scrap Page

When you’re putting together a scrapbook page, it’s the little things that make it unique.  The carefully planned layout, the choice embellishments, and the shapes of your pictures all come together to make a page special.  To top it all off, you need some beautiful lettering for your title and journaling.

Some scrapbookers shy away from doing their own lettering, usually because they are not pleased with their own handwriting.  They use stickers or die cut letters to make titles and do their journaling with their word processing programs.  While there’s nothing wrong with that, it doesn’t provide for much individuality.  Learning to do your own creative lettering gives you much more flexibility.

What Is Hybrid Scrapbooking?

Any use of a computer for a scrapbooking page or the combination of digital and traditional scrapbooking is considered hybrid scrapbooking. Hybrid scrapbooking has actually been around longer than some people may think.People were printing their journal entries for their scrapbooks long before they were doing
the things they are today. Today scrapbooking is done both digitally as well as traditionally though many people prefer one way to another some have been innovative enough to combine the two.

Digital scrapbooking is done completely on the computer though the pages can be printed out for preservation purposes. There is a variety

Create Faux Metal Rusting for Your Scrapbook

Get the rusted metal look without the rusted metal. Coat a red or burgundy colored cardstock with brown chalk. Next, add tan chalk for a powdery finish. Then, using a sponge-tip applicator, apply bronze or rusty color metallic rub on. Finally, add black and tan chalk on top of the rub on to shadow and highlight the item.

This appearance creates a hardening or masculine effect to scrapbook pages. It may also be used to highlight a mechanical or metal working theme.

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