Embellish with Ribbon

I received an issue from Scrapbooks etc. weekly newsletter recently, which is part of the Better Homes and Gardens family. It had some great ideas on using ribbon as an embellishment to your layouts in an article called Ribbon Romance. They are using these in the traditional manner, but I was thinking this would be great digitally also. In fact, it would be a lot cheaper in digital scrapbooking. You could have just two or three ribbons. All you have to do is change the color and you can almost have as many as you want.

I have included the link to this article and I hope you find it helpful. I would highly recommend you joining this newsletter. You go to the Better Homes website, link above. At the bottom of the page is an area with all the BHG stuff, one of the links is free newsletters. Click this and then follow the directions. I have found it helpful and inspiring.

Again, I plead with you, let me know your ideas and thoughts.

I was a teen in the 80’s so this totally rad Boombox shaped mini album from Traci really speaks to me! She created a rectangle shaped black acrylic album with rounded corners, adding buttons and a handle on the top with a cover decorated to look like a real boombox with speakers, a tape deck, buttons and more. She used the Totally 80’s collection of products from Simple Stories that has lots of bright pink and teal colors with cool 80’s inspired patterns like black and white check and colorful graphics. There’s also load of fun embellishments like a Walkman, high top sneakers, retro TV, camera, hair spray can and more.

I had huge hair in the 80’s and am embarrassed to admit how much Aquanet hair spray I used!

Traci has included her totally tubular signature flaps and pockets in the album too for some radical interactive elements too.

Visit the Artsy Album blog to learn more about this bodacious mini album project.

-Heather

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