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PaperKuts Special Feature
Embellish It!
From Paperkuts new Fine to Fabulous special issue by Vicky Randall
Want to take a casual layout and dress it up? Embellish it! You can accessorize by taking pre-made embellishments and altering them to fit your personal style. Use those detail shots you learned about in Chapter Four and add them to a slide mount or tag. Journal using metal letters or quote stickers. Patch together patterned papers, then ink, chalk and distress them. Add fun accents that incorporate your theme. Play with fabric, ribbon and fibers and dress up your page! Whatever you imagine, you can do. It's all up to you…with a little help from our designers.Brother by Maureen Spell
Tip: Anchor Embellishments
Did you know that when a ship anchors in the ocean, three anchors are actually cast? Two anchors are cast in the front of the ship splayed in a "v" pattern with the third anchor dropped behind the ship. The ship is then tightly balanced between the three anchors. Neither wind nor tide will wash the boat against dangerous shores or cast it adrift.
Scrapbookers similarly anchor embellishments on a page so that elements are not lost, floating adrift in the background. And just as a ship captain uses three anchors to secure his boat, many designers will anchor embellishments in groups of threes.
Notice Maureen Spell's first Brother layout with the three tiny tags left drifting in the background. She takes those tags and anchors them on the "o" in "Brother," thereby balancing her layout.
Daddy's Girl by Janna Wilson
Tip: Anchor on Borders
Borders can give us a sense of security. When a scrapbook page has a set boundary or border, our eyes are free to roam the page. We are given a set direction. Without those boundaries, our gaze wanders, wondering where it should land next.
In Jana Wilson's Daddy's Girl, the black rickrack serves as our border and visual guide. In the first example, our eye travels down the border and we are confused when elements are placed to the left side of the rickrack. Janna corrected this by placing the smaller photo and the text blocks on the rickrack. Did you notice there were three elements placed along that border?
Dandelions by Helen Williams
Tip: Anchor on Borders
In Dandelions by Helen Williams, the two pieces of ribbon provide a border to guide your eyes through the layout. The first Dandelions layout is fine but the ribbon feels empty and the acrylic accents lose their power. When Helen moved the acrylic accents onto the ribbon in her second layout, she takes this layout to full bloom.
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