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by Angela Vader
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Getting Started with Fibers
What You Need to Know About Using Fibers on Your Layouts by Rebecca Ludens
These simple tips and tricks will help you add some dimension to your layouts. The best part is that using fibers is much easier than you may have thought.
Tip One: Wrap cardstock in fibers for an elegant border.
Simply wrap some fiber around a piece of printed cardstock to make a very nice border with some dimension. Try this technique on your own layouts using different colors of paper and fibers to create entirely different looks!
Tip Two: Combine fibers, buttons, and nail heads for even more dimension.
Another easy way to make your first border using fibers is to create a rather “free-form” flowing piece. You’ll want the buttons, fibers, and nail heads to look fairly randomly placed. To create a border like this, tear a strip of paper and attach it to one side of your layout. Select several coordinating colors of yarns and fibers that will work together to compliment the colors in your page. Lay the fibers down the strip weaving them together in a few spots. Press nail heads through the paper covering a different strand of fiber in each location. If needed adhere other spots of the fibers using Mini Glue Dots.
Tip Three: Attach fibers with Glue Dots.
The easiest ways to attach fibers to your pages are with the following products and methods:
Glue Dots - These wonderful adhesive products from are the most efficient and permanent way to attach dimensional items to your layouts that I have found. They are available in multiple sizes, each with different benefits for scrapbookers.
Nail Heads - Nail heads are easier to use than eyelets and come in an enormous variety of colors and styles. You simply press them through the paper and fold the prongs over to hold them on your pages.
Eyelets - Eyelets can be used two ways to adhere fiber to your layouts. First, you can simply use eyelets as holes to thread the fibers through. This is an especially effective look when you want your fiber to look like shoelaces, or when you are “tying” a page together. You can also use the eyelets to attach the fiber to the page by place the fiber in the punched hole of the paper before you set the eyelet into it. This way when the eyelet is set, the fiber is permanently bound beneath it, attached to the page.
Tip Four: Use fibers to make it look like items are dangling on the page - to hang embellishments.
Whether you are creating a hanging journaling box, or simply adding fun embellishments to your pages, fibers are the perfect way to make them look like they are dangling on the page.
If you have some great layouts using fiber or suggestions to you’d like to share with other readers about this technique, please email us at junkie@cropjunkie.com.
“A little madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King”
~ Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) US poet ~
What is Chipboard?
Chipboard is used for the backing of notepads, backing of stacks of business forms, etc. Some manufacturers are making acid-free/lignin free chipboard specifically for use in making scrapbook pages. Chipboard can be used to create thickness in scrapbook page embellishments and monogram letters. You can paint it, sand it, cover it with patterned paper, and use rub-on letters to embellish it.
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