by Debbie Hodge | May 3, 2011 | DinaWakley, Ideas via Product & Technique, Patterned Paper
By Dina Wakley There’s nothing like the punch and wow-factor a bold and bright patterned paper gives a page. One thing I’ve learned over the years is how to make a bold piece of patterned paper work for you. Here are a few ideas for using those bright and busy...
by Debbie Hodge | May 2, 2011 | Photography, Photos, Picture Your Story
By Katrina Kennedy After reading a few comments on a recent photo of one of our family dinners that I posted on my blog, my mind set off thinking about the idea of context and “the overall picture” of our photography. Sometimes, in working towards the...
by Debbie Hodge | Apr 30, 2011 | Design Principles
by Debbie Hodge The stability of threes The human mind likes things that comes in threes: three coins in a fountain, three-ring circuses, and Goldilocks’ three bears. Speech coaches, writers, and comedians all understand that ideas presented in threes are more easily...
by Debbie Hodge | Apr 28, 2011 | Crafty Projects, Doris Sander
by Doris Sander When you use scraps and product packaging to make a “hodgepodge” mini album you get a charming and inexpensive project for your photos. Add this time-save process and you’ll have a great stash of minis to keep and give away. I will...
by Amy Kingsford | Apr 25, 2011 | MacGyver of Scrapbooking, Organization
by Amy Kingsford Buttons…buttons…who’s got some buttons!? Buttons are one of my favorite things in the world! I remember looking through my grandmother’s button stash as a little girl and telling her one day I’d have a button collection just like...
by Debbie Hodge | Apr 21, 2011 | Paper Techniques for Scrapbooking
By Tami Taylor Ever since I took “Art Journaling 101” by Dina Wakley and watched her wield a spray ink bottle, I’ve been an avid collector of stencils. Problem is, my wallet is not an avid collector of money. I recently made a canvas that had a sun...
by Debbie Hodge | Apr 20, 2011 | Finding and Using Inspiration, Ideas Spurred by Design, Lift These Ideas
by Debbie Hodge Wondering how to add a little something different to the next scrapbook page you make? Try building a page based upon one of these five ideas. 1. Incorporate a curved line into your composition Dina Wakley says, “Continuance is a Gestalt principle that...
by Debbie Hodge | Apr 19, 2011 | Ideas for Page Topics, Pattie Knox, Photos, Picture Your Story
By Pattie Knox digital technology is a boon for scrapbooking 25-year-old photos Are you a child of the 1960s? Did you grow up in the 70s or 80s? Hard as it may be to swallow, those days gone by are now considered “Retro.” While I no longer own shag carpeting or a lava...
by Debbie Hodge | Apr 18, 2011 | Patterned Paper
by Debbie Hodge When it comes to mixing patterned papers on your scrapbook pages, there are a four patterns that mix easily with the wildest of motif and color combinations. These patterns are text, stripes, ledger/notebook, and dots. See how guest teachers at...
by Debbie Hodge | Apr 15, 2011 | Art Journaling, Color, Design Principles, DinaWakley
By Dina Wakley I love contrast. If you want a page element to be powerful, contrast it with its opposite and you have mega-impact. Contrast is what makes a piece of art surprising, or interesting, or even just plain good. Contrast is essentially the use of opposites...
