Accents

 What are paper accents? Well, these are the small details you place within your layout or on your embellishments that give them that little extra eye catching “pop”. These range from the sparkly stuff such as small pearls and rhinestones to other items like ribbon, brads, and eyelets that give the page or embellishment a little dimension.

For instance, here is a basic paper pieced flower that has no accents.

The edges are all inked to give the flower some dimension and even in this state it is a pretty embellishment and ready to use on a page. But as we all know in the scrapbooking world, we can’t stop there! So by adding a small pearl or rhinestone in the center of the flower…

…the embellishment now has some added dimension and will only improve the overall look of your layout.

So break out those small accents, get creative, and have some fun!!!

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Pretty as a Flower

Two of my many favorite things in the world are pink daisies and my daughter. One day I had my pink daisy embellishment on my craft table and I just happened to put my daughter's school pictures down right next to it. 

Pink Daisy Paper Pieced Embellishment

This gave me a great idea for a simple layout to use for both! Digging through the stacks I found some pink flower paper to use as a background and a brown polkadot paper to use as a base. To help tie the embellishment in, I just used the colors from the embellishment to frame the photo and the "Pretty as a Flower" label. Instead of having the flower "free-floating" on the page, I decided to give it the look as if it was growing out of the ground by placing it behind the label. I think it turned out really cute!

Pretty as a Flower Framable Scrapbook Page

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Memo Board with Rose Magnets

Oh, I love this! Maybe I would actually look at my calender/memo board if it was this pretty! You can get the complete tutorial over at On My Side of the Room.

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Beautiful Framable

I thought this picture of my daughter went perfect in our "Beautiful" framable! I love the way it dispays the photo... and in case you couldn't tell I love pink, gray and black together! You can get this framable and others by visiting our online store here.

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