by Debbie Hodge | Jul 16, 2010 | Ideas via Product & Technique, Paper Techniques for Scrapbooking
by Michelle Houghton Grab some spare prints of your photos, patterned paper with design you love, a good craft knife, cutting mat, and a great pair of scissors–and get ready to do a little cutting. I’ve got how-tos and ideas for cutting your papers and...
by Debbie Hodge | Jul 15, 2010 | Sketches and Layered Templates
by Debbie Hodge Here’s a new batch of coordinated scrapbook page sketches and free layered templates for digital scrapbooking. You can find a new sketch every Friday in the Get It Scrapped Sketch Gallery- and they’re also tucked in the...
by Debbie Hodge | Jul 15, 2010 | Get It Scrapped! Project
by Tami Taylor This is the 7th installment of a project in which Tami embarks upon a year-long quest (inspired by the Julie/Julia Project) to use the Get It Scrapped! book and website to get scrapbooking done. This month Tami’s focus is on Chapter 4 of Get It...
by Debbie Hodge | Jul 15, 2010 | Theme Quickstarts
Making a birthday page? Use these “quickstarts” to get ideas for your page motifs, embellishments, wordart, titles, and fonts. Hallmark Images of Birthdays | Birthday Sayings and Phrases | Fonts for Birthday Pages This series provides “starter”...
by Debbie Hodge | Jul 14, 2010 | Ideas via Product & Technique, Patterned Paper
by Debbie Hodge When I first started scrapbooking and shopping for patterned papers, I gravitated to eye-catching patterns with motifs like flourishes, stars, paisleys, and florals. The dots and stripes weren’t as interesting to me. I didn’t see why I needed them, and...
by Debbie Hodge | Jul 12, 2010 | Ideas via Product & Technique, Paper Techniques for Scrapbooking
by Michelle Houghton Machine sewing on scrapbook pages is a great homemade touch. Read on for ideas and how-tos for getting your machine fired up and stitching on paper. Prepare your page Before you start sewing on your scrapbook page, you need to have the layers you...
by Debbie Hodge | Jul 11, 2010 | Quotes and Word Art
Use summer quotes and printable word art on your paper or digital scrapbook layouts and projects — for titlework, embellishing, and even journaling. In summer, the song sings itself. -William Carlos Williams Deep summer is when laziness finds...
by Debbie Hodge | Jul 9, 2010 | Ideas for Page Elements, Titles
by Debbie Hodge A good title connects your photos to their story. I often start with a placeholder title in mind when I’m making a scrapbook page. I hold it in my mind, and, as I add elements to the page, more ideas come—sometimes without work, and other times because...
by Debbie Hodge | Jul 8, 2010 | Copic Markers
by Michelle Houghton If you’re new to this series by Michelle, you can find all of her tutorials here: Copic Marker Tutorials. So here he is, my favorite image so far, meet Izzy! He was intended as a dragon but I realize he could double as a dinosaur or even an...
by Debbie Hodge | Jul 7, 2010 | News
Interview by Amy Kingsford GIS Username: twistedpeppermint Joined: January 2010 Most Active In: Non-Scrapbook Related Forums Alum of: The Very Basics and Your Life: Thru the Lens with Katrina Kennedy Beverly Schweppe was born and raised in Missouri and moved to the...