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Vintage Feel in a scrapbook
Any tips to get a vintage feel to scrapbook pages?
I'm making a scrapbook for a friend's sister. I did this last year for my friend and she loved it so much she asked me to do it for her sister's bach party too. Her sister's dress has a vintage look to it (never seen, just what she told me about it). I'd like to keep that 'look' through the scrapbook. Colors are shades of aquas, browns and creams.
I bought a few embellishments already- flowers, pearl like items and some chip board letters (may return because my mom and her friend both have cricuits I can use). Would those work? Any other stuff to use?
Tips, thoughts, suggestions?
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Re: Vintage Feel in a scrapbook
To add some depth to the pages you could buy some of those paper doilies (spelling?) and ink them up with brown ink using a sponge stroke. That would make them look tarnished with age and then you could cut them or use them whole behind picture mats, as borders, etc.
http://graphicsfairy.blogspot.com/ This website also has all kinds of vintage images which could give you some ideas or maybe even have a few things you could print out to use as embellishments.
Your project sounds great - good luck!
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I like to use Tim Holtz and Ranger products, Distress ink, crackle paint, Perfect Pearls, etc. I also sand a lot of edges and use a mask with glimmer mist.
A sanding block to distress edges...some careful tearing instead of perfect straight cuts, inking/inks to fuss with edges, mixing patterned papers...