Here is a nice video of a scrapbooking technique using a masque pen. It goes well with rubber stamping. This video is presented by Scrapbookers Buzz.
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Masque Pen Demo for Rubber Stamping & Scrapbooking from Scrapbookers Buzz, Inc. on Vimeo.
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They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Well a picture with a scrapbook quote with it is worth many more than a thousand words! Scrapooks are based on enhancing the "story" of what a picture depicts. What a wonderful change if you were to put above or below, a "quote" that refers to the picture with it. It can be in the form of humor, a description of a once in a lifetime event, a specific memory, or a thought generated by yourself that conjures up a specific feeling you had inside.
It is like a comic book. Remember when you would see the "dialog bubble" near the mouth of the people talking to each other. It further depicts what is said along with the drawings of the people who are interacting with each other. Comic artists also draw a "cotton ball" bubble to represent what a person is thinking as opposed to what is said. You can paste a white piece of construction paper in the form of a dialog bubble or cotton bubble to make some comments from the people in your picture.
Either way, whether you have dialog boxes or a quote above or below your pictures, it is a great way to make your design more interesting!
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Another great technique for scrapbookers is paper layering. It may sound new to you, but it has been used, believe it or not by you in the past and you don’t even know you are doing it! It simply is a technique where you lay a foundation paper of color and design and then overlay it with a picture, a journal, or a 3-D piece. Sometimes paper layering can save you time from formally matting a picture or an illustration you want to add to a page.
For some ideas, try to alternate contrasting paper colors for that "eye jarring" effect. Sky’s the limit in what kind of papers and colors you can combine or layer together with. I have found that making different geometric shapes of different colors and pasting them on top of each other in various patterns make very interesting displays. Try angles, circles, squares, and strips. They all work well together.
We are now going to go over another creative way to decorate a scrapbook page. This technique goes with any theme you may be working on now. Many of you may be already using this method for variety in your scrapbook look. This technique is called "stamping." It is simply a matter of using either store bought rubber stamps with interesting designs on them or home made stamps. Either way, you would either use a stamp pad or colored markers to transfer ink on them and strategically stamp the scrapbook page with them.
This brings me back to when I was a child and made stamps made of uncooked potato spuds. Some of you may remember that! For those of you that do not know about how potato stamps were made, you would take a raw potato and slice it in half. You would take one of the slices and carve an image or pattern in the face of the potato, the starchy side, and then dip it into a stamp pad or tempura paint tray and then press it on a colored piece of construction paper. We would repeat this process until we totally covered the page. It was a beautiful sight!
Nowdays, you can find many different stamp patterns at craft stores, import stores, book stores, even in office supply stores.
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