by Debbie Hodge | Mar 20, 2013 | Composition, Feature, Photos, Picture Your Story
by Debbie Hodge Squares are familiar and stable shapes. Their right angles and equal sides suggest order, equality, and even conformity. So how do you leverage the stability of squares and steer clear of boring? Our team and teachers show you ideas for how they like...
by Debbie Hodge | Mar 20, 2013 | Get It Scrapped!, News
design techniques for stepping up your scrapbook pages. You’ve read about design principles, and you’re using your knowledge of them to make your pages, and, still, you feel like you could make better pages. You’re adding repetitions with variety, you have a focal...
by Debbie Hodge | Mar 19, 2013 | Get It Scrapped!, News
From using “little stuff” to adding shine, we’re taking a look at top designers’ approaches to finishing off scrapbook pages and giving it that something special. Take a look at this slideshow to see what we’re covering in the...
by Debbie Hodge | Mar 19, 2013 | Feature, Ideas via Product & Technique
by Debbie Hodge Tearing papers on your scrapbook pages is a way to add texture and dimension. It’s a way to get a handmade, spontaneously crafted look that varies from the clean lines of scissors or punches.[twocol_one] Different papers torn will yield...
by Debbie Hodge | Mar 18, 2013 | Feature, Finding and Using Inspiration, Paper Techniques for Scrapbooking, Their Cool Thing Now
When you come upon a new technique, product, story approach, design challenge or just SOMETHING that gets you excited, you often find that the the creating comes easier and faster. You start using this new “cool thing” again and again because it results in...