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Using Office and Household Items for Scrapbooking |
Leave the two-dimensional world behind. New trinkets like mini clips, baby clothespins and colorful bottle caps, spell versatility and creativity! Like a new scarf jazzes up a dull suit, new embellishments freshen tired paper designs and give them a needed boost! You’re going to love piling on the trinkets and jazzing up your pages to the max! In the layout shown here, journaling is made more eye-catching as it is held in place with these unique, colored clips. Here are some other ideas for using clips and clothespins.
Clips and Clothespins
1. Clip decorated tags or ephemera to the flap
of a vellum envelope.
2. Attach a spring clip to a page with a brad. Use it to hold a vellum tag
decorated with word stickers and a scrap of ribbon.
3. Attach either tulle or ribbon to a page. Gather and clip with a mini
clothespin. Tuck in a small tag.
4. Use mini clothespins to clip a small piece of fabric, letter stickers, or
other embellishments to a hemp cord clothesline.
5. Mount a small photo in a slide mount. Decorate it with word stickers and use
binder clips to attach it to the layout.
6. Wrap ribbon around a layout and thread it through the hole in a spring clip.
Tie it in a bow. Clip tags, journaling or other embellishments to ribbon.
7. Attach spring clips to a page with a brad. Clip strips of journaling and
stickers to your layout.
8. Tie tags with ribbon, and clip them to a page with mini clothespins.
9. Clip several pages of journaling together with bind clips.
For more ideas, check out the book Trinkets, Textures, and Techniques for Scrapbooking from Design Originals:
Article, cover photo, and layout used by permission. Copyright 2005 Design Originals 2004 by Suzanne McNeill
