Take a Look at Fasteners

When you paper scrap, you need to attach each item on your page with some type of glue or fastener. Although we don’t need these things to get things to stick to the page digitally, we can use them to make the page look more realistic. Take a look through some galleries and see what types of fasteners are used. You will see brads, stitching, staples, tape, buttons, photo corners, paperclips and much more.

One of the trickiest fasteners to use is the paperclip. A paper clip needs to go partially over the paper you are clipping and partially under. You can’t do this by moving layers around obviously. What you need to do is to erase part of the paperclip – the part that should be under the paper. Here is a layout I did that used a paperclip:

I am going to zoom up close to the paper clip and then use my eraser tool to wipe away one of the loops of the paperclip, just the part that should be hiding under the paper. You will need to take it slow and do it piece by piece. If you mess-up, just undo and try again. The end result should look like this:

Before

After

Have fun – I free you to go forth and erase!