Weaving | Digital Scrapbooking Skills - Chelle's Creations

How many times have you heard the saying, “the devil is in the details?” I must have heard it a dozen times, and yet it’s the details that make a digital scrapbooking page seem three dimensional. If a page has a banner on it but the string running through each eyelet of the banner isn’t shadowed , then the page loses its realism. When it comes to weaving a string through eyelet, the devil doesn’t have to be in this detail. Chelle has a great video tutorial here on her YouTube channel that gives step-by-step help on getting this detail right. It’s a short video, easy to watch on a coffee break and helpful to refer back to each time you need until you have the technique down. Chelle’s team members have made some pages to give you some inspiration.

First, I’ll show you a page with a string woven all around the page, in and around various paper strips on the page. Melissa made this lovely creation with Chelle’s On the Water kit. You can easily see how the string wrapping around the tabs of paper gives the page a three dimensional edge that would be missing if the string was simply on top or below the papers. And, I just have to add that the photo of her baby smiling from behind his pacifier made me chuckle. What a cutie!!

Next, we’ll look at the pages Shanell made. She made a double page spread, but I am going to show the two halves separately to highlight what she did on each page. First, let’s look at the right half. She has two strings weaving in and around the letters in her title. The strings look like they are holding the letters together on the page, and the shadowing of the strings is perfect. Next, if you look closely at the left side of the page below, you’ll notice that Shanell has a date tag hanging from a flower cluster on the top left corner of the page. She has woven the string through the hole in the tag to make it look realistic. This is a great way to add that important information to the page and at the same time add some dimension and texture.

Finally, Roxana took a slightly different approach to weaving. Instead of weaving string, she has woven paper strips cut in a wavy pattern. The same methods of erasing and shadowing apply as shown in the video, but the shape is just a bit larger than the eyelet and string in the example. By the way, she has used Traveler Bundle on her page.