One of the hottest and fasted growing trends in scrapbooking these days is using paper with print on it. Now, I'm not talking animal prints or patten paper. What I mean is those papers that have sheet music, dictionary pages, or words all over them. Adding some print paper to a project can do things like create a vintage feel, or even using a dictionary page that has the meaning of a one-word for some journaling that describes exactly the message you want to convey. So maybe you don't have any these papers lying around, no problem...we have the perfect solutions...
*Go to your local library, hit a yard sale and ask if they have any books. I was able to pick up at my local library for 25 cents an old dictionary that they were looking to get off their shelf (remember though, if it's not acid free and you use it with your pictures to buy some archival safe spray at your local craft store).
*Use a print stamp and create your own background paper
*This is my favorite idea (and I'll share on Wednesday the layout I made making my own). Out there in our Internet world there are programs that allow you to play with words and randomly arranges them for you and creates "word clouds". In this case I am talking about Wordle. I love this and play with it quite frequently. It's a great way to add journaling (especially for those "all about me" pages).
Moving on, let's take a look at today cards (and a altered project) using some print paper...
Practical Scrapper Carolina
