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SCRAP BOOKS
GALORE
[with
help from "rubyglen.com" ]
You will
soon be needing somewhere to put all those fanastic
holiday snaps and you don't want them to get
scruffy when all your friends view you holiday
romances and disasters. So here is a simple Scrape
Book to
make:
1. You
will need a ring folder with plastic inlays, then
some medium thickness paper, no bigger than
A4 so they fit in the plastic
sleeves.
2.
Mist the
paper with a spray
bottle filled with water very lightly and evenly on
both sides.
3. Crumple the paper
into a very tight ball.
The tighter the paper is crumpled, the more waves
you will have. You
may have to re-crumple the page several times to
get the desired
effect. Reopen paper, smooth it out with your
hands, and lay it flat to
dry 
4. When the paper has
dried thoroughly, apply a drop of white stamp pad
refill ink onto a cottonwool ball and brush lightly
across paper just
enough to get the top edges of the wrinkles in the
paper.
The result
should look like rippling water.
5. Once the
ink has dried thoroughly,
place the paper face down on an ironing board and
place a cloth over
it. Turn the iron to a very low setting (I used the
silk / rayon
setting) and iron the paper until it lays fairly
flat. If you skip this
step, you will have a hard time getting the glue or
photo squares to
hold your pictures to the crumpled paper.
6.
Use an interesting lettering
style or
a word processor to make a Fun in the Sun title
block for the front page
be creative! As most of us who use a PC have most
of the materials to hand it is only the ring folder
you need or one of those that is lying
dormant. (mine are usually shoved under the
bed)
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