by Debbie Hodge | Oct 30, 2013 | Color
Cool colors on the wheel are blue, green, and violet. They tend to recede and have less visual weight than warm colors. Blue and green are calming and soothing and have connections to nature. Violet, which is made from a warm and a cool color and which appears less...
by Debbie Hodge | Oct 29, 2013 | Motif, Picture Your Story
Typewriters are a retro and enduring motif great for storytelling on scrapbook pages. Typewriters are a tool for presenting the written word. They represent writing and (almost) a time gone by, a time when a machine with moving parts and ink was used to record stories...
by Debbie Hodge | Oct 23, 2013 | DoubleUp, Sketches and Layered Templates
See how scrapbookers Susanne Brauer and Heather Awsumb used a one-page sketch/template from Amy Kingsford’s Scrap Your Summer 2013 Freebie Pack on their two-page layouts. Susanne Brauer says, “This page is about a tour my husband and I took of an...
by Debbie Hodge | Oct 22, 2013 | Photos, Picture Your Story, Yourself
Set yourself a challenge this month to take a photo of yourself–a “selfie”–and use it to tell your story. See the photograph and story angles our team and MSD teachers have taken in the scrapbook layouts here. A great resource and inspiration...
by Debbie Hodge | Oct 21, 2013 | Finding and Using Inspiration
Once Tiffany Tillman made peace with her decision to call herself a “digital scrapbooker,” she was motivated to explore the vast world of digital techniques, and she soon fell in love with using digital painting effects on her pages. When you come upon a...