by Debbie Hodge | Jul 18, 2012 | Crafty Projects, Feature, Ideas via Product & Technique, Paper Techniques for Scrapbooking
By Michelle Houghton Do you like to doodle? I LOVE to doodle, and, with several years under my belt of doodling pictures for other people, I have gotten OK at drawing several simple images and can even break them down in order to teach others how to draw them. A best...
by Debbie Hodge | Jul 17, 2012 | Digital / Photoshop Techniques for Scrapbooking, Feature, Paper Techniques for Scrapbooking
Punches and die cuts originally entered the crafter’s toolkit for making positive shapes: for punching out circles and tags and alphas. Lately, though, scrapbookers have been purchasing electronic die-cutting machines that make the creation of custom punched...
by Debbie Hodge | Jul 13, 2012 | Color, Feature, Ideas Spurred by Design
About Purple | Purple Dominating | Purple Drawing the Eye | Purple Guiding the Eye | Purple Accenting About the Color Purple Color conveys meanings or evokes feelings in three chief ways. See the resulting associations with purple for each trigger. 1....
by Debbie Hodge | Jul 12, 2012 | Feature, Ideas from Current Trends
Take a look around home decor, fashion, hairstyles, and even wedding wear and decorations and you’ll see feathers. Peacocks have been a favorite ornamental motif for millennia, but currently a variety of feathers are being put into vases and wreaths. The motif...
by Debbie Hodge | Jul 11, 2012 | Feature, Finding and Using Inspiration
Magazine covers and advertisements are designed to not only catch the viewer’s eye but to pull them in and guide them to view the smaller details. They are, thus, great models for laying out your scrapbook pages. Ways to use the inspiration piece include: to...
