How to Accent Pictures & Photos in Scrapbooking

Video Transcript

"Hi, I’m Shelly Cordsen with expertvillage.com and I’m calling this segment picture perfect. All that means is there are so many ways to accent your pictures just to make them pop versus just handing them your packet of pictures and saying, oh look at these and I did that last night. I said look at all these China pictures I finally got developed and they’re like oh yeah cute, cute, then I brought out my little 6x6 scrapbook, same set of pictures and the little things I’ve done to the pictures to make them pop, cut them. Everybody was saying, oh look, oh look because you’re really drawing attention to the subject in the picture when you scrapbook. There’s a lot of ways to make your picture pop out but the most common way is to matte it and we’re using this lovely paper called bris to matte all our pictures to coordinate. The standard thing is I have a 4x4 picture here, you always make your matte a quarter of an inch bigger. So I will cut this paper 4 ¼ x 4 ¼ and then you’ll lay your picture on it and I’ll just our little lead positional tape real quick and look how that just popped out. I trimmed a lot of background off, so it just really pops out that she’s there. Some of the other ways is you can see here, put it on point, cut it where he’s at an angle and I rounded the corners, you can buy a photo, oh I guess they call it a corner rounder, you just stick the corner of your paper in there and punch and it rounds them off. You can do that to your pictures, to your matting, just give it a little soft touch. What I have found if I cut a lot of background down and just pull the face up, it really pops out. Here’s another sample where I just bordered the picture and then sat into the frame. Just simple, here’s some where I took and used a circle cutter, use the coluzzle and we’ll go through that in another segment, fun, fun tool. Here’s one where I cut a circle out of the middle of a photo, put a photo matte under it and then laid it on top of the background again. Here I cut out the little swing, there is so much that you can do to accent your pictures even down to stamping using eyelets, brads, ribbon, stickers, more stickers, fun stuff like scrabble pieces, more stickies, there are a lot you can do, you can get into a lot of money this way, but it is loads of fun but just basic here, hardly any money into this just three sheets of paper."