Scrapbooking for BeginnersHow to Accent Pictures & Photos in Scrapbooking

Hi, Im Shelly Cordsen with expertvillage.Com
and Im calling this segment picture perfect. All that means is there are so many ways to
accent your pictures just to make them pop versus just handing them your packet of pictures
and saying, oh look at these and I did that last night. I said look at all these China
pictures I finally got developed and theyre like oh yeah cute, cute, then I brought out
my little 6x6 scrapbook, same set of pictures and the little things Ive done to the pictures
to make them pop, cut them. Everybody was saying, oh look, oh look because youre
really drawing attention to the subject in the picture when you scrapbook.

Theres
a lot of ways to make your picture pop out but the most common way is to matte it and
were using this lovely paper called bris to matte all our pictures to coordinate. The
standard thing is I have a 4x4 picture here, you always make your matte a quarter of an
inch bigger. So I will cut this paper 4  x 4  and then youll lay your picture
on it and Ill just our little lead positional tape real quick and look how that just popped
out. I trimmed a lot of background off, so it just really pops out that shes there.
Some of the other ways is you can see here, put it on point, cut it where hes at an
angle and I rounded the corners, you can buy a photo, oh I guess they call it a corner
rounder, you just stick the corner of your paper in there and punch and it rounds them
off.

You can do that to your pictures, to your matting, just give it a little soft touch.
What I have found if I cut a lot of background down and just pull the face up, it really
pops out. Heres another sample where I. Just bordered the picture and then sat into
the frame. Just simple, heres some where I took and used a circle cutter, use the coluzzle
and well go through that in another segment, fun, fun tool.

Heres one where I cut a
circle out of the middle of a photo, put a photo matte under it and then laid it on top
of the background again. Here I cut out the little swing, there is so much that you can
do to accent your pictures even down to stamping using eyelets, brads, ribbon, stickers, more
stickers, fun stuff like scrabble pieces, more stickies, there are a lot you can do,
you can get into a lot of money this way, but it is loads of fun but just basic here,
hardly any money into this just three sheets of paper..