How to use embellishments

When I first began scrapbooking, I spent a lot of time working on getting my pictures on the pages. Getting the stories down onto the page was the most important part of scrapbooking, but over time that changed. Getting the pages to become part of the story became a very important aspect of my creativity. I was in search for easy ways to make my pages cute without overtaking the pictures. If you have an example of simple embellishments on cards or scrapbook pages, I would love to see them.