| In today's scrapbooking ideas and solutions I am going | | | | wrapping, tying or any stitching decorations on your |
| to focus on ways to add unusual and unique | | | | layouts. |
| decorative touches to your paper craft projects. | | | | You could even use raffia for a more rustic country |
| Normally we buy our embellishments from our local | | | | look. Use raffia to tie flowers in bunches, or thread |
| craft or scrapbooking stores, but you will be surprised | | | | through punched out holes on your layout. Raffia also |
| at how much flower shops, garden centres, | | | | comes in an assortment of different colours. |
| haberdashery shops and stationers can offer you. | | | | Dried flower also make charming embellishments. A |
| You could even have intriguing items hidden away in | | | | preserved flower from a particular occasion will bring |
| your sewing and trinket boxes. You never know, you | | | | the memories flooding back. Beautiful artificial flowers |
| could spot something to spark off a surge of creativity. | | | | are also appealing, and a lot of shops sell miniature |
| A lot of unconventional items can make wonderful | | | | paper flowers and leaves in loads of varieties and |
| decorations for your scrapbooking ideas and solutions. | | | | colours. |
| Why not try embroidered patches to add a three | | | | Richly coloured imitation gems also add pizzazz to any |
| dimensional element to your layouts. These come in a | | | | scrapbooking layout. You can fix them in place using |
| wide variety of shapes, pictures, even numbers and | | | | glue dots or a touch of strong glue applied with a tooth |
| alphabet. | | | | pick. |
| Other great embellishments that you will find in a | | | | Skeleton leaves are another effective embellishment |
| haberdashery department are silk and net flowers. | | | | and also come in a variety of muted colours and sizes. |
| You can also pick up ribbon rosettes in various colours | | | | These will add a delicate and shadowy look to any |
| and sizes. You will also be able to pick from a | | | | scrapbooking layout. |
| selection of beautiful butterflies which are also perfect | | | | Why not try some magic mesh to add three |
| for decorating scrapbooking layouts. | | | | dimensional texture to your layouts. Mesh is self |
| You are also bound to pick up beautiful ribbons and | | | | adhesive and repositionable. You can also add a |
| decorative braiding and trimmings that can also be | | | | multitude of effects to mesh, including punching, |
| used in your layouts or to make beautiful borders for | | | | embossing, stamping and layering. |
| your pages. | | | | Self adhesive strips also come in a variety of colours |
| Using threads and fibres also has loads of possibilities. | | | | and you can use them to create borders and frames |
| There are endless choices from shiny rayon, to dyed | | | | to enhance any layout. Some adhesive strips also |
| embroidery thread, to metallic and couching threads of | | | | come in a cassette that you can use like a pen for |
| varying thicknesses. You can use all of these for either | | | | more precise work. |