by Debbie Hodge | Sep 4, 2013 | Design Your Story, Masterful Scrapbook Design, Write Your Story
by Debbie Hodge I originally became interested in the idea of setting a mental clock ticking (to create tension) when I studied fiction writing. As a scrapbooker, I thought a lot about getting tension into the written component of my storytelling–but not so much...
by Debbie Hodge | Sep 4, 2013 | Composition, Ideas Spurred by Design
Any photo, title, or embellishment you add to a scrapbook layout is seen as a part of the whole page before it is seen as an individual piece. Place the photo just a bit to the right and above center on your canvas and the eye will see it as “restless”...
by Debbie Hodge | Sep 3, 2013 | Ideas from Current Trends, Motif, Travel
The newly-popular ‘glamping’ trend offers up a wealth scrapbooking ideas for choosing color, motif, texture, and pattern for scrapbook layouts. Glamping refers to vacationing in nature, but with amenities not typically associated with...
by Debbie Hodge | Aug 30, 2013 | Masterful Scrapbook Design
Tension is an important element in making something beautiful, including scrapbook layout designs. Consider the good guy and the bad guy in fiction, vertical columns supporting curves in architecture, hard movements combined with flowing movements in dance. Tension...
by Debbie Hodge | Aug 29, 2013 | Feature, Quotes and Word Art
Use happy birthday quotes and printable word art on your paper or digital scrapbook layouts and projects — for titlework, embellishing, and even journaling. You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old. ~ George Burns The way I see...
