Hi it’s Beck Beattie here again to show you what I have been up to in my creating with Helmar Professional Acid free glue. This is one of my favourite go to glues alongside Helmar 450 Quick Dry and Helmar Liquid Scrap Dots that I use on pretty much every one of my Scrapooking Layouts.
I just love to add dimension to my layouts and I have varied ways that I do this. The most common for me would be to use old cardboard boxes that I cut up save and recycle. Now this can’t be done with this and paper alone so I need my Helmar to help keep it all together. My glue of choice for this application is Helmar Professional Acid Free glue. It is the strongest paper to paper bond so it keeps it all stuck down really well, and this is important given cardboard can add a little extra weight to the layout. I find it best to use cardboard under larger pieces, adding dimension while keeping it all very flat.
When I start to get smaller pieces that I like to raise, this is when I shift to Helmar Liquid Scrap Dots, so that it isn’t really seen from the side. Lastly I always use Helmar 450 Quick Dry for behind my photos as this has the lowest water content of the Helmar adhesives ensuring no warping of my photo occurs whilst still being acid free.
The first layout I am sharing is my Fly and soar layout that I made for a recent class over at A Fastlane Scrappe Supplies using My Mind’s Eye Lost and Found ‘Be Amazing’ Collection teamed up with some Core-dinations cardstock, Hambley washi tape, and Basic Grey Rubons. For this layout I have used the rubon’s in the background on some distressed core-dinations cardstock to achieve a very distressed finish helping to frame the focal point of the layout which is my photo.
The next layout I am sharing with you is another layout I made for a recent class over at A Fastlane Scrappe Supplies using Echo Park’s ‘Note to self’ collection teamed up with Jo Sonja’s acrylic
paint and some texture paste. For this
layout I layered the different patterned papers on the layout and teamed them
up with the sticker elements from the collection. The background was enhanced by stencilling
acrylic paint mixed with texture paste onto the doiley and then placing the
doiley at the opposite end of the layout.
I also did some texture stamping into the doiley to give it a little
more of a grungy ‘boy’ feel to what is usually quite a feminine item.
When adding dimension into my layouts using cardboard teamed with Helmar Professional Acid Free and Helmar Liquid Scrapdots, I look to add the cardboard in between each layer building it up as I go. If you are someone that doesn’t really like your layouts to be too dimensional simply add the cardboard and Helmar Liquid Scrap Dots and simply stick each layer of paper to each other using Helmar Professional acid Free glue.
I hope you have enjoyed my share today and learnt a little more about Helmar Professional Acid Free glue and how I use it to create my style of scrapbooking layouts.
