We all have our own set of treasured memories. Some of them are too loaded with actions to remember in details that we forget most of those little things which changed our life in to many directions. We all have a family but many can hardly tell anything about their family line’s ancestors or anything about their origin from generation to generation. “Life is short” they say, but surely there are many incidents which take place in this short life.

Scrapbooking is an excellent way of treasuring your moments. It is an unusual, unique way of preserving your memories which can be shared with many upcoming generations. I’m sure you can find a photo album of your great grandparents and see how different they look from the modern society. You can also evaluate and compare changes in life styles and forms of having fun. The latter is only possible with the help of your grandparents who took extra care to preserve their photo albums. But in our modern days, we can preserve our memories in a much unique, attractive, striking style through scrapbooking! All you need to do is “think outside the box!” in order to end up with a fabulous scrapbook album which is done all by yourself through your own efforts and creativity. It will surely add value to your memories as well.

Dried Flowers as Embellishments

Embellishing your scrapbook is one of the most delightful activities to engage in. You can use many methods and craft items to embellish your scrapbook layouts in a unique way. However, using dried flowers is one of the most elegant methods of embellishing your scrapbook for it will add a homey look to your pages. It adds a lot of attraction to your scrapbook layouts while giving it a touch of nature as well.

Dried flowers can be attached as whole, in bunches with many other flowers, or punched into many shapes. At the same time, you can add dried flowers to your scrapbook layout as petals or leaves as well. Embellishing the cover page of your scrapbook album using dried flowers will give your scrapbook a special effect. It will add a graceful theme to the scrapbook while bringing its uniqueness to a new level. You can add dried flowers in between images or in borders to embellish your scrapbook with a theme as well. If you can spare sometime and be patient throughout the process, you could even come up with a whole “dried flower” themed scrapbook album where each scrapbook layout would have a dried flower border.

There are many ways of drying flowers; basic method of drying flowers is sandwiching the fresh flowers in between blotting papers and keeping it inside a book. But thanks to our advanced technology there are many other ways to perform this task as well. You can also, use silica sand to dry flowers. All you have to do is just keep the flowers in a tub of silica sand for some days to have some dry flowers in your possession in no time!

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Attaching Dried Flowers to Your Scrapbook Layout

You can also attach the flowers very easily! When attaching the dry flowers, place a thin line of glue along the stem and create your pattern. You can also apply glue directly on the petals to attach them on your scrapbook layout. Also you can use embroidery cotton to attach the flowers in suitable places while letting your creativity and imagination do the rest of the job.

However, dry flowers are not lignin and acid free. If proper precautions are not taken or if, the dried plants are not placed in suitable places, it’s likely that your scrapbook layouts will start smudging or forming fungus. But don’t be disheartened for adding dried flowers to embellish your scrapbook will give your scrapbook album a fabulous emergence! So now is the time for you to take a walk in your lovely garden and find the flowers you love the most and prettiest leaves around to embellish your memory blog - your scrapbook!

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