A List of Things You Can Add to a Layout -- From 2Peas Board

Other ideas added by other posters:

From RNKMom:
Also punches, i.e. gather/overlap/layer/"bunch up" a lot of puched out leaves for a nice look. Fern leaves can be either layered or strung out in a line. They can face toward or away from each other and look nice both ways, especially when the curve is draped over a corner. Add glitter to the leaves (Can you tell I use leaves often?)

Border punches: Punch out the entire sheet, or just the mat around a photo, even if only one side of the mat. Then there's that type of MS punch that punches out both sides, creating a lovely strip that can be used as a border.

Instead of only brads in the center of flowers, fill those centers with either buttons or rhinestones.

From tmrsrpt:
- add a banner (bunting, as shimelle calls it) - the latest and greatest sb'ing trend
- add a cool tag from clothing or a tea bag or etc.
- use real/every day ephemera (ticket stubs, brochures, maps, pressed pennies, etc).

From Meridy77:

add crepe paper (streamers)
stamp a pattern over the top of silk flowers (before adhering to the page)
machine stitch lace to the layout
add rub-ons
stamp your own personalized phrase on a piece of "twill" ribbon
staples

From EllenPea: Cut something out of pattern paper and use it as an embellishment

From katyscrap: staples

From planosuep: "real" things - tickets; bibs from runs; paper tags from clothing, etc.

From mlamarre: use old shirts and t-shirts to create flowers as embellishments.
Use iridescent medium to add shimer to a page, without losing the colour.
Use pearl ex on the edges of flours to add more texture

From Scrappylassie: doodling

From Superscrapalicious:  Use masks or use diecuts as mask and glimmer mist to embellish paper

From Paulan:  1) hidden journaling either behind a picture or another element.  2) With a "busy" picture or one with lots of people one easy way to add names is to take a piece of velum and trace the picture and then number the people and then have a list of who is who in the pic. This is a great exapmle of hidden journaling do it where you can "flip" the pic up to see the traced picure.

From rldelo: Make a wordle. (wordle.net)

From Fancynan:  hand drawn doodles... I goof around drawing florals and paisley designs often. And you can hand marker or watercolor paint in them as well.

I loved the idea of punched circles lined up half under another paper to create the scalloped border look!
Not often, but sometimes, cutting certain pictures into the mosaic squares is a fun technique.
Layering certain embellishments, to give a 3-d look (ie, 2 of a sticker with part of top one pop-dotted up to give a dimensional look.

From Travelscrapper2:  rocks - the stung kind that they use to make jewelry. I've used them quite a bit on LO's of my western travels.

From CindyMarch:  A cut up credit card!

From 4dloveofscrap:  print directly to your ribbon!

From 1happygirl:  Use the orange mess bags oranges come in on a layout. I saw one where it had been painted and used on a layout with children in an amusement ride. Cute! Or use it as is on a fall page.