Photo Corner Phrenzy

When you look at those scrapbooks that your parents or even grandparents used to keep, you’ll almost always find some great black-and-white vintage photographs held down by photo corners. What a great streamlined look for a scrapbook. You can even see it today in the simple scrapbooks kept by the “untrained” scrapper. Photo corners allow you to attach your picture to almost any surface, while creating an organized, flowing scrapbook.

Scrappers have, of course, blown the lid right off the photo corner business and turned them into tiny works of art. You can get photo corners in a variety of sizes, shapes and even materials. Here are a few ways you can use photo corners to create some beautiful scrapbook pages.

Create your own. Grab a photo corner punch (available from Provo Craft) and punch photo corners out of coordinating cardstock or patterned paper.

Think big. Use the new Heidi Swapp Large photo corners rather than your standard small size. The best part about the Heidi Swapp corners is that they come in a large variety of colors and designs.

Distress them. By adding a touch of paint or a little dab of ink, you can create a one-of-a-kind corner to match the shabby feel of your scrapbook page.

Use metal photo corners. Making Memories makes a few great sets of metal photo corners. Each is etched with a different pattern that is sure to highlight your best photos.

Use a corner as something other than a corner. There are many things that have a pointed end that a photo corner could be perfect as. For example, try creating an arrow out of patterned paper and using the corner as the pointer.

Put them everywhere. Use corners on objects other than just pictures. Try accenting the edge of one of your patterned papers to draw the eye towards something else on your page, like journaling or ephemera.

Pages have corners too. Cut a right triangle out of patterned paper or cardstock to use as a page corner. You can make it as large or small as you’d like.

Corner your journaling. Use photo corners to mount your journaling block on your page.

Don’t use two when just one will suffice. Try offsetting an embellishment on your page by adding a single photo corner to your picture. Not every corner has to be covered by them.

Go simple. Take a page out of the vintage scrapbooks that you love and create a simple layout with just cardstock, corners and a journaling pen. You’ll love the organized look this will give your page.

However you decide to use them, photo corners are a great way to accent a page without overpowering a picture. It’s the perfect embellishment!

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