by Amy Kingsford | Feb 21, 2017 | Feature, Finding and Using Inspiration, Page Guides
The “flea market” decor style is an eclectic one, often including a curated collection of pieces that are seemingly unrelated, each with their own story, and yet combining to tell a bigger, single story. This style incorporates objects one might find at a...
by Amy Kingsford | Feb 15, 2017 | Canvas, Composition, Feature, Page Guides
The first layers you place on your page play an important role in your design’s final look. These first layers (and their shapes) create visual weight, directional pull and contribute to the balance of the design. When those first layers are shapes or...
by Amy Kingsford | Feb 14, 2017 | Design Your Story, Feature, Page Guides
Quite often a scrapbook page comes out of the simple desire to get a story told. A “story-first” approach means you: start with your story first, writing it before you design, make room for the written story on the canvas right away, choose the right...
by Amy Kingsford | Feb 1, 2017 | Design Elements, Feature, Videos
In this video blog by Christy Strickler, we’ll explore how the creative team has played with geometric shapes within their scrapbook pages. The benefit to working with geometrics is that they are versatile: You can combine and manipulate the pieces for different...
by Amy Kingsford | Jan 25, 2017 | Feature, Sketches and Layered Templates
This free scrapbook page sketch comes from a page made by Amy Kingsford for the Get It Scrapped Membership “Tension” class. In the Get It Scrapped Membership, members have access to a library of over 150 layered templates and page sketches just like this...
