| Make your ordinary scrapbooking to extraordinary | | | | You can invest this method which is more straight |
| collage scrapbooking. I love to create a collage while | | | | forward and cost effective in long term. |
| doing my painting or drawing. A collage can be done | | | | Secret #5 Collection of beads and buttons or leftovers |
| by using vintage set, cigar box, cloth, puzzle, rubber | | | | from other projects.I would like to call this "Rojack Art". |
| stamp etc. Here I share some of my tips on how to | | | | "Rojak" is Malay term, meaning local salad of |
| make your ordinary scrapbooking into an extraordinary | | | | Traditional Malay in Malaysia and Singapore. It is make |
| collage scrapbook. | | | | of mixture of fried bean curd, fried snack, pineapple, |
| Secret #1 Collection of rubber stamps.When you | | | | cucumber with local made prawn gravy. If you are |
| purchase rubber stamps, look for rubber stamps | | | | chilies lover, it will taste most yummy with some chilies |
| manufacturer to custom make your family photo | | | | added. Back to my topic, "Rojak Art" is something like |
| rubber stamp. You can create collage that is family | | | | using some leftovers from other projects, with beads |
| topic related using your custom make stamps. | | | | and buttons, spread it on your scrapbook paper |
| Secret #2 Collection of music note or song lyrics.I | | | | corners. First spread some adhesive on your |
| noticed a lot of songs lyrics are with nice poem, and | | | | scrapbook paper, then spread the big items, such as |
| lovely sentences. All this lyrics are very suitable for | | | | buttons or seashell. Then, add some adhesive, spread |
| collage scrapbook. It helps to create the artistic | | | | small item to fill up the gaps between the big items. |
| atmosphere, with added one or two lines of musical | | | | Finally put your photo and you are done! |
| note or lyrics. | | | | Secret #6 Stamps collage scrapbooking.My husband's |
| Secret #3 Acrylic paint to add glaze to your | | | | hobby is collecting stamps. He collected many duplicate |
| scrapbooking.Buy some acrylic paint in metallic, earth | | | | copy of same stamps. I borrowed some from him for |
| tone or bronze color to paint in your scrapbooking | | | | my collage design. You can do this by purchasing a |
| background. This is actually creating historical look for | | | | simple design wooden frame, then using adhesive to |
| your scrapbook that worth value as collection. | | | | paste your stamps around the photo frame. Last add |
| Secret #4 Image transfer technique to create unique | | | | some light brown or metallic bronze color acrylic to |
| design of your collage scrapbooking.There are many | | | | make historical look. |
| ways to do image transfer. One of the easiest | | | | Secret #7 Make aging technique with coffee and tea |
| cheapest way is using packing tape to do a packing | | | | staining.This is nothing new methods. Lots of people |
| tape transfer. It is done by cutting your image out and | | | | are using this technique to create aging look of photos |
| paste it to packing tape, then soup in warm water for | | | | in your scrapbooking. I like to use tea to create aging |
| five minutes, then put the no sticky side on table with | | | | or historical look in my photo. This is done by putting |
| the sticky side up, rub the no sticky side paper with | | | | your photo in the tea, place it for long period, depending |
| your finger, until you can see your image on the | | | | on the tone hue you want. Then air dry your photo |
| packing tape.Remove the access of packing tape, and | | | | before you use it in your collage scrapbook. |
| using glue or double side tape to paste your image on | | | | Hope you enjoy the above secret method of collage |
| your collage scrapbook. Another image transfer | | | | scrapbooking! |
| technique is heat transfer using a heat transfer tool. | | | | |