| If you are scrapbooking your own wedding you are | | | | computer printer! |
| creating a historical document. Don't go for a small | | | | Masks are ideal for wedding pages and very easy to |
| format like 8 by 8 for something this important. Buy a | | | | work with. Just put the mask down on the scrapbook |
| good quality scrapbook, letter size or 12 by 12. This will | | | | paper - it is adhesive but completely re-positionable. |
| not only give you room for larger pictures, you'll be able | | | | With a toning ink begin to dab around the mask using a |
| to add copies of documents like the marriage | | | | sponge or blender. Tim Holtz masks are transparent |
| certificate without losing too much space. You will | | | | which means that what you see is what you get. As |
| want to copy all the pictures before you start to mess | | | | you color areas of the page with your distress inks, |
| about with them, and of course you can scan and print | | | | blending and shading as you go, the area under the |
| your documentation at any convenient size. | | | | mask remains the same. Your background can be as |
| As you think about the pages, consider the questions | | | | subtle or as striking as you like, depending on the |
| your daughter would ask you about the wedding, even | | | | colors you choose. Using a fine water spray you can |
| if you don't have one. How long were you engaged? | | | | spread and blend the distress ink colors creating one |
| What was the ring like? When did you decide to get | | | | of the mottled paper designs you see in expensive |
| married? Where did the dress come from? Why did | | | | collections, only this time you are in control and can |
| you choose it? How much did it cost? Think about the | | | | choose the right colors for your photos and layout. If |
| information you want to leave behind. Your wedding | | | | you plan to put your photos in the middle, concentrate |
| photograph album has the official version, you | | | | the ink effects towards the edge. It's easy to shade |
| scrapbook can be as honest as you want it to be. | | | | top to bottom or right to left, when you are in control |
| You can tell the whole story of how his mother | | | | of the shading! You can use this technique as often as |
| brought you bridesmaids you didn't want and didn't | | | | you like - let the ink dry, move the flourish mask and |
| know, or how your mother hated the dress, or you | | | | work with another color, or use a different mask |
| can simply ignore anything unpleasant and pretend it | | | | entirely. You can create wonderful effects by using |
| didn't happen. When it comes to your daughters turn, it | | | | masks and stamps together, create delicate, shaded |
| may be useful to be able to show her what you went | | | | backgrounds and stamp on top in white or gray ink this |
| through. | | | | time, or leave the mask in place and stamp over that. |
| If you are scrapbooking a parent, or grandparents | | | | Touches of gleaming gold can create a luxurious |
| wedding you might like to create some embellishments | | | | effect, and of course you can always add that touch |
| which have been artificially aged. My parents wedding | | | | of transparent glitter! |
| pictures are black and white, while my grandmothers | | | | Weddings are intensely personal, and while there are |
| are sepia. Both of these look a little odd on colorful | | | | many beautiful wedding papers, tags, frames and |
| backgrounds, so I'd suggest creating your own | | | | embellishments available to buy, nothing is quite the |
| background pages. Find a relatively plain background | | | | same as creating your own unique pages for your |
| paper you like and choose two two toning colors of | | | | own family wedding. Once the pictures and other |
| Tim Holtz distress inks. Using a mask, such as The | | | | items are added, you not only have a wedding |
| Flourish from Tim Holtz, you can create an effect | | | | scrapbook, you have a family heirloom, ready to tell |
| which will be in your chosen colors, but will look printed, | | | | your story to generations yet to come. |
| and it's much cheaper than using the ink in your | | | | |