How to Use Glitter for Scrapbooks

Video Transcript

"Hi! My name is Leslie Moselle and I'm from Tampa, Florida. On behalf of Expert Village, this is the essentials of scrapbooking. Chapter ten: glitter. Although glitter can be one of the more messier craft, it's still a classic and it's still used in scrapbooks. I have 2 types of glitter. I have purple glitter and white glitter today. You can use either one, and I'm going to show you how to use both colors. Using glitter, you can make borders for around your pictures. You can frame them or you can even just do shapes. To apply the glitter, I like to use just the classic Elmer's glue, the liquid glue. You just have to be careful because you have to make sure to get straight lines and not get too much glue on your page. You might want to practice once before you actually try this out. The fun thing about this is that you don't have to have perfect lines because the glitter will be thick and it'll cover up your little mistakes. It's fun. No one really knows if you're tried to get a straight line or not. Depending on the color scheme of your page, you can use any color. You can use multiple colors. They do sell rainbow glitter. They sell all sorts of shades. The best thing to keep in mind is to just keep a scrap sheet of paper because you want to apply the glitter nice and thick on top of the glue to make sure you cover all parts of the glue. I'm just going to do this one side for you. Make sure you cover all the parts. Then you can just take a scrap sheet of paper. Once you feel it's been on there for a good amount of time, fold your page in half and pour the excess out. Just give it a light tap and your glitter will stay. What you can do is just save this little bit of glitter, and I'll show you another way of using. Just a quick example. Say you want to do hearts. Just draw a nice shape. It can be any shape that you want. Make sure to get a good amount of glue. You can pour your glitter the same way around the shape. Get your excess sheet and give it a nice tap. As you can see, it is a little difficult. It'll get better with time, but that gives you the basic idea of how you can use glitter for your scrapbook. Chapter eleven: markers. For this chapter I'm going to show you a great way to decorate your page and it emphasizes the theme of your page. A lot of people don't like to take the time to punch out letters or to cut out the letters themselves, so this is an easy way for you or your child to work on a scrapbook and to decorate the page without having too much cost or too much time. Since this is a happy birthday page, I'm just going to go ahead and just show you a great way to decorate. You don't have to be a master at drawing letters. It's your own page. It's going to be your own work so it doesn't have to be perfect, but you can take the theme or the font that's already here. It's best to get markers that have a thicker tip because then it's less time consuming and you can get letters that are nice large and a lot easier. There are different types of markers. You can use permanent markers; you can use your classic Crayola markers. If you're more of an artist and have nicer pens or nicer markers at home you can use those and whatever is easiest for you. "