Scrapbooking Ideas and Solutions

<h1>Scrapbooking Ideas and Solutions - Muddy Layouts</h1>Author: <a title="Michel Yvonne Maling" href="http://www.articlesbase.com/authors/michel-yvonne-maling/190533.htm">Michel Yvonne Maling</a> Mud, wonderful Mud This time of the year, most people are scrapbooking with a snow theme for Xmas.  Well here in South Africa, we get zilch snow, so we will just have to use mud as a scrapbooking idea and solution. Why mud you ask, it’s brown and sticky, and actually quite ugly, but somehow kids seem to love it.  Very few of them can resist jumping in a puddle, or squishing their hands around in it.  So you see there are just as many photo opportunities for rain and mud as there are for snow.  It is a joy to capture a child just having pure fun getting all dirty and muddy.   When scrapbooking your photo’s, try to find card stock with a muddy, brown or weathered and distressed look and feel to it.  You are bound to find one or several to suit the mood of your photo’s. When you are matting your photo’s, you can try giving the layout a muddy feel in the following ways: Try dipping a scrunched up kitchen roller towel into a small try of brown or walnut ink.  Squeeze out the excess ink and carefully unfold and allow to dry flat.  The ink will spread through the towel in a random way forming rivulets of ink, as if mud has been splattered on it. You can also paint or use the heliographic technique to create your own mats for your photo’s in mottled browns. Crumpled brown paper (the sort that you use to cover books) can also be used behind your photo’s to accentuate and lift them up slightly. You could also try using hessian sacking material on your layout.  This can be used either behind your photo’s or behind your journaling for added effect. The scrapbooking shops at the moment are filled with wonderful embellishments in browns made out of chipboard, or wood of other types that you can use.  Cotton twill is also cheap to buy at your local haberdashery shops.  You can also try dipping your twill into your brown ink, and it will have a great muddied look to go with your layout.  You can then stamp your journaling onto the twill once it is dry and paste it onto your layout.  You could also use chipboard lettering for your journaling, which is found in most good scrapbooking shops. So there you have it, you can have great fun with those pictures of your grubby kids.  So let’s go get muddy! For more fun scrap booking ideas and solutions, visit my blog at:  <a target="_blank" href="http://scrapbookideasandsolutions.blogspot.com">http://scrapbookideasandsolutions.blogspot.com</a>About the Author: Michel Maling
Passionate about Dancing, Scrapbooking and building a powerful online business to help others make their financial and personal dreams come true.
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Mud, wonderful Mud

This time of the year, most people are scrapbooking with a snow theme for Xmas. Well here in South Africa, we get zilch snow, so we will just have to use mud as a scrapbooking idea and solution.

Why mud you ask, it’s brown and sticky, and actually quite ugly, but somehow kids seem to love it. Very few of them can resist jumping in a puddle, or squishing their hands around in it. So you see there are just as many photo opportunities for rain and mud as there are for snow. It is a joy to capture a child just having pure fun getting all dirty and muddy.

When scrapbooking your photo’s, try to find card stock with a muddy, brown or weathered and distressed look and feel to it. You are bound to find one or several to suit the mood of your photo’s.

When you are matting your photo’s, you can try giving the layout a muddy feel in the following ways:
Try dipping a scrunched up kitchen roller towel into a small try of brown or walnut ink. Squeeze out the excess ink and carefully unfold and allow to dry flat. The ink will spread through the towel in a random way forming rivulets of ink, as if mud has been splattered on it.

You can also paint or use the heliographic technique to create your own mats for your photo’s in mottled browns.

Crumpled brown paper (the sort that you use to cover books) can also be used behind your photo’s to accentuate and lift them up slightly.

You could also try using hessian sacking material on your layout. This can be used either behind your photo’s or behind your journaling for added effect.

The scrapbooking shops at the moment are filled with wonderful embellishments in browns made out of chipboard, or wood of other types that you can use. Cotton twill is also cheap to buy at your local haberdashery shops. You can also try dipping your twill into your brown ink, and it will have a great muddied look to go with your layout. You can then stamp your journaling onto the twill once it is dry and paste it onto your layout. You could also use chipboard lettering for your journaling, which is found in most good scrapbooking shops.

So there you have it, you can have great fun with those pictures of your grubby kids. So let’s go get muddy!

For more fun scrap booking ideas and solutions, visit my blog at: http://scrapbookideasandsolutions.blogspot.com

Michel Maling Passionate about Dancing, Scrapbooking and building a powerful online business to help others make their financial and personal dreams come true. http://scrapbookideasandsolutions.blogspot.com

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