Can anyone please tell me what these things are called? { }
Are they brackets?
Parentheses?
Squiggly vertical lines?
Hold please, I'll ask Google.
(returning three minutes later)... Here is what Wikipedia says: curly brackets, squiggly brackets, definite brackets, swirly brackets, birdie brackets, Scottish brackets, squirrelly brackets, braces, or gullwings: { }
Whatever you choose to call them, they are used A TON in the scrapbooking world. I wasn't quite sure what made them so damn important until I created the layout above.
The photos were perfectly in place...
I had my title and letters all picked out...
I knew I wanted to create a little flower garden in the bottom corner...
But there was no cohesion between the title and the rest of the elements... (back to Google for a definition of cohesion: [kəʊˈhiːʒən] n. the act or state of cohering; tendency to unite)
It then occurred to me that I needed some way to frame the title of the page (queue music and enter squiggly bracket things stage left)
I don't know why squiggly bracket things are so magical, but they pretty much are the cat's meow, the unicorn's horn, the best thing since sliced bread. They have a strange way of bringing it all together when something just seems to be missing. Give them a try... you'll be hooked on the squiggles faster than the disappearance of Coach purses at a 50% off outlet sale...
...and here are a few more layout pics, for the die hard fans.
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