Tearing and ripping paper for effect
Tearing and ripping paper and tissue paper into various shapes or abstract forms can be used to great effect in your scrapbook. Tearing creates an artistic look to backgrounds, photo mounts, borders, and embellishments. It works best on an informal page. You will have to use your judgement as to whether tearing will create the desired effect - sometimes, on a formal page, tearing looks completely out of place. Try ripping your paper along the edge of a ruler. Put the paper on the table, hold the ruler down over it with one hand and gently pull the paper against the ruler with the other. This gives you an informal straight line. Another technique to try is to use a wet paintbrush to draw a line on your paper and then gently tear along that. This works brilliantly with mulberry paper and other handmade textured papers and creates a wispy effect that is particularly attractive if you are using the paper to mount a photo. Try placing a piece of torn mulberry paper on the bottom, a slightly smaller piece of torn solid paper at a slight angle on top, and the photo at yet another angle on the top.
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