Scrapbooking Ideas for Cheap Embellishments

Using flowers as embellishments for your scrapbooking is a wonderful way to add some color and dimension to your layouts.

You can use flowers on so many different types of layouts in so many different ways. Photos of little girls suit this medium well. If I have a large portrait photograph, I normally put flowers closely together on two opposite corners of the photograph for a very pretty effect.

Flowers also work well for outdoor layouts or garden layouts. By using some of these ideas, you can add some very pretty detail to your scrap book layout.

Here are some great scrapbook ideas on how to make your own flower embellishments.

1. Dried Flowers

Why not collect some flowers from your next outing, and press and dry them out. You can even press them in small bouquets or arrangements to decorate your layouts. Be sure that they are completely dried out before using them in your layouts and cover them with a plastic see through envelope or put them in a shaker box so you can protect your photographs in the long run.

2. Cardboard Flowers

Using scraps of different colored cardstock cut out basic daisy flower designs. You can then ink the edges of the petals and layer the different colors on top of each other. Place a button or a brad in the middle of the flower. You can make the cut outs the same size or different sizes that you can layer with the biggest one at the bottom and the smaller one on top.

3. Concertina Flowers

This involves cutting thin strips of paper, folding them concertina style and then arranging the strips around a button by loosening the folds. The smaller the folds the better. as the flowers will look prettier and more delicate. Ink the outside edge of the paper flower to give a nice finish. This is another reason why you should keep all your scraps of paper.

4. Circular Flowers

Once again, using those precious scraps, you can cut out small circles in different sizes. I usually trace around coins. Crumple the paper circles after inking around the circumference. For a more distressed look you can also ink lightly in the creases. Once your circles are flattened again layer them with the biggest one at the bottom. Join them in the middle using either small buttons or brads. Patterned paper works extremely well using this method.

As you can see from the examples above, with just a bit of extra time and effort, your scrapbooking layouts need not cost your a fortune.


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