So we've covered trimming tools, mats, rulers and more. In this piece, we'll be covering markers. Yes, markers - its a secret tool thats utilised by scrappers for way more than just outlines.
Paint Markers
These markers literally draw with paint. Though not the same as the sort on your walls, its a modified version designed to be viscous and dry swiftly. Now you can attain fine painted lines, more efficiently than if you tried painting by hand.
Not only is it almost instant set up time, but the drying time is much quicker also , with it drying in seconds, rather than the minutes that normal hand painting takes. So there's no real need to stop working on your page!
Glitter pens
While you would not use these in a whole heap of scrapbooks, you can still use them in a select and tactical way that may bring highlighting and importance to defined bits of your pages.
These pens are quick, effective and neat. If your thinking about utilising glitter anywhere, I can truly advocate using one of those glitter pens over the standard loose pack glitter - regardless of whether its to save everyone a large load of mess.
Watercolour Pencils
These are one of art's most well tended secrets. Most people think you have to do all watercolours with special paintbrushes and paints. Nonetheless there are watercolour pencils available that make it easy to sketch and colour by hand and then paint water over the top, to achieve the same watercolour effect, without the unpredictability.
This makes for a wonderful dream-like or nostalgic effect, perfect for a high school scrapbook.
Just be sure to do it on another sheet rather than straight into an album as you do not need your pages becoming wrinkled or soaking up water..
We hope you've enjoyed our series and have come across some tools and techniques you can use to trim minutes off your next project!
Paint Markers
These markers literally draw with paint. Though not the same as the sort on your walls, its a modified version designed to be viscous and dry swiftly. Now you can attain fine painted lines, more efficiently than if you tried painting by hand.
Not only is it almost instant set up time, but the drying time is much quicker also , with it drying in seconds, rather than the minutes that normal hand painting takes. So there's no real need to stop working on your page!
Glitter pens
While you would not use these in a whole heap of scrapbooks, you can still use them in a select and tactical way that may bring highlighting and importance to defined bits of your pages.
These pens are quick, effective and neat. If your thinking about utilising glitter anywhere, I can truly advocate using one of those glitter pens over the standard loose pack glitter - regardless of whether its to save everyone a large load of mess.
Watercolour Pencils
These are one of art's most well tended secrets. Most people think you have to do all watercolours with special paintbrushes and paints. Nonetheless there are watercolour pencils available that make it easy to sketch and colour by hand and then paint water over the top, to achieve the same watercolour effect, without the unpredictability.
This makes for a wonderful dream-like or nostalgic effect, perfect for a high school scrapbook.
Just be sure to do it on another sheet rather than straight into an album as you do not need your pages becoming wrinkled or soaking up water..
We hope you've enjoyed our series and have come across some tools and techniques you can use to trim minutes off your next project!
About the Author:
To get more great high school scrapbook layouts and ornamentation ideas check out Janette Miller's internet site. Also while you are there why don't you download some of the free scrapbooking layouts that are accessible.