by Debbie Hodge | Sep 13, 2010 | Motif
by Debbie Hodge The star motif can be used to connote a variety of concrete and abstract meanings. What’s more it’s great for stylistic manipulations and decorating your scrapbook pages. a little bit about the star motif A star is a huge ball of plasma...
by Debbie Hodge | Sep 10, 2010 | Paula Gilarde, Sketches and Layered Templates
Sketch #62 by Paula Gilarde You can find a new sketch every Friday in the Get It Scrapped Sketch Gallery. This week’s one-page sketch comes to us from Paula. It’s fun layered photos and its clean mats and journaling come together for the perfect design! And with...
by Debbie Hodge | Sep 9, 2010 | Art Journaling, Design Your Story, Journaling, Paper Techniques for Scrapbooking
by Michelle Houghton Sometimes, for something fun and different, I like to write my journaling in shapes—not just in a circle but spiraling around the edge of a circle or other shape. It isn’t practical for reading—the reader always ends up upside down and backward...
by Debbie Hodge | Sep 8, 2010 | Art Journaling, Design Your Story, Journaling, Paper Techniques for Scrapbooking
by Michelle Houghton OK, I love these little guys! I love the frame the circle creates around my journaling. Circles will come in at the end of the steps but grab a scrap piece of paper first and do some practicing. You know what I’m going to say: “Get your elbow...
by Amy Kingsford | Sep 7, 2010 | Crafty Projects, MacGyver of Scrapbooking
By Amy Kingsford These photo trays, or “Printer Trays” as they are also called, have become a huge trend this year. They present a fun new way to frame and display your photos and, at the same time, an opportunity to add bits that reveal your personality and support...
by Debbie Hodge | Sep 2, 2010 | Ideas via Product & Technique, Paper Techniques for Scrapbooking
by Debbie Hodge Here is a roundup of a few fun ideas for using handlettering techniques in your scrapbook pages and projects inspired by Michelle Houghton’s class Hand Lettering for Scrapbookers, Journalers, and Crafters. 1) Make great titles for your paper...
by Debbie Hodge | Sep 2, 2010 | One Month At A Time
Monthly prompts, sketches, ideas & encouragement for getting your photos scrapbooked “one month at a time.” See the all of Tami’s One Month at a Time posts. by Tami Taylor How many of us moms were counting down until the day we sent our kids back to school?...
by Debbie Hodge | Aug 20, 2010 | Theme Quickstarts
Making a wedding page? Use these “quickstarts” to get ideas for your page motifs, embellishments, wordart, titles, and fonts. Hallmark Images | Sayings and Phrases | Fonts This series provides “starter” lists for making scrapbook pages on a...
by Debbie Hodge | Aug 19, 2010 | Journaling, Write Your Story
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. -Jane Austen in Pride and Prejudice, 1813 Source: Reading Copy Book Blog Jane Austen understood it The beauty of the opening line to Pride and Prejudice...
by Debbie Hodge | Aug 18, 2010 | Motif
by Debbie Hodge The butterfly and its associations and many stylistic rendering possibilities is a great motif for your scrapbook pages. Here are 12 illustrated ideas for using it. The Pila by by Doris Sander butterfly symbolism and beliefs Here’s a big list of...
