by Debbie Hodge | Apr 9, 2010 | Paula Gilarde, Sketches and Layered Templates
Sketch #44 by Paula Gilarde You can find a new sketch every Friday in the Get It Scrapped Sketch Gallery. This week’s sketch comes to us from the very talented Paula Gilarde and features a one page layout with a fun triangle design and lots of beautiful white space to...
by Debbie Hodge | Apr 9, 2010 | Finding and Using Inspiration
by Amy Kingsford If you’re looking for some inspiration or ways to take your scrapbook page layouts in new directions, try using something different–something you don’t usually reach for. Below are three layouts that all use the same background paper...
by Debbie Hodge | Apr 9, 2010 | Design Principles, Design Your Story, Journaling
by Debbie Hodge Justification is all about how you’re going to line things up—or, rather, align them. Read more about alignments in Strengthen Your Scrapbook Page Design with Alignments. left-justified journaling Sometimes I left-justify my journaling. Actually,...
by Debbie Hodge | Apr 8, 2010 | Journaling, Scrapbook Page Elements, Write Your Story
You can use the “zoom” feature of 3rd-person point of view to tell a story that captures the current moment AND the times in which it takes place. Take a look at the lyrics to “On the Night Hank Williams Came to Town” (and even listen to Johnny...
by Debbie Hodge | Apr 7, 2010 | Art Journaling, Crafty Projects, Hybrid Scrapbooking
by Amy Kingsford I have always been fascinated with old books . . . the smell, the worn edges, the discolored and torn pages all seem to hold a certain history that should never be discarded. Every year, though, libraries, bookstores and schools discard millions of...