Hints and Tips

Acrylic Albums

Here are some useful tips when you are using acrylic albums.

Start from the Back!

You should make the album as a whole – not just page-by-page. If you start from the back

Embellishments

If you use things such as rub-ons, stamps or doodling, place them so they are effective seen through all the album pages. This gives you wonderful value for your money, as you only need a couple of things on each page to create a rich, well embellished look. This really helps stretch your scrapping dollars.

Pens

Our Sailor Pastel Writers are Fabulous!!!!! Sharpies work fine on the acrylic. The longer Souffle brand pens are left to dry, the bolder the image becomes.

Stamping & Embossing

'Staz On' ink is very versatile. It doesn’t smear and stays where you put it. Darker colours work best, with the opaque range being best for light colours. Ink the edges of your patterned papers. Inking your stamped images allows them to be effective from both sides. If you stamp an image and are not happy with it, immediately use Staz On ink cleaner, and it will wipe the image away.

You can use embossing ink & powder, but don't Touch it for a while, wait for it to cool...

Bling

Remember, everything can be seen on both sides. Whether used as a whole, or separated, lace them carefully, or you will have the stick backing showing on one side of the page.

Bling like the memory gems are great to hide the BACKS of other embellishments.

Adhesive

Our Double sided tape is suggested for most items, I actually use a very fine strip along the edges I have inked, then you do you see it! Our Glue Dots are great for things like flowers – as long as you have something on the back page, to cover the spot. Our Diamond Glaze is great to enhance an image, & people do use around the edge of an item to attach it too! Velum Glue Dots for transparencies and those things you don’t want to have to cover from the back.

Hiding Photos

When placing photos, you need to always plan what will go on the other side. To coverdisguise the back of a photo you can:

• place another photo of the same size over it
• use it as a journaling block for the back page
• cover with a large flower
• stamp an image on the back – this also gives dimension on the other side.

Paint

Use paint around the edges for different effects.