by Amy Kingsford | Sep 29, 2016 | Feature, News
Come celebrate Digital Scrapbooking Day with us! We’ll be opening our live meeting room on Saturday, October 1 at 9am EDT, where we’ll have challenges, live demonstrations and plenty of conversation and cropping – see the schedule of events below!...
by Amy Kingsford | Sep 28, 2016 | Feature, Sketches and Layered Templates
This free scrapbook page sketch comes from a page made by Debbie Hodge for the Scrapbook Coach Class Double Wide and offers plenty of space for multiple photos as well as opportunities for pattern play and a standout title. In the Get It Scrapped Membership, members...
by Amy Kingsford | Sep 27, 2016 | Ideas from Current Trends, Ideas via Product & Technique
We’ve been spotting crayon and crayon techniques in home decor and crafty tutorials–especially those canvases with the melted crayon running down them! With the kids headed back to school maybe it’s time to pick up their crayons for yourself–or...
by Amy Kingsford | Sep 21, 2016 | Color, Feature
Color is a great storytelling tool for any visual journaler because of its associations with nature, its ability to trigger a physiological response, and because of the cultural connections people make.Typically, a scrapbooker turns to the colors of autumn that occur...
by Amy Kingsford | Sep 19, 2016 | Design Your Story, Feature, Finding and Using Inspiration, Ideas Spurred by Design
Everyday items can be a great source of inspiration for your scrapbook pages–giving your ideas and plans for color, shape, motif, and layout. Today our team shares their pages inspired by board games. Take a look at what they’ve done, and then check out...
by Amy Kingsford | Sep 16, 2016 | Feature, Get It Scrapped!
If you’ve longed to unearth and then share your own family history in a compelling way, you’ll love next week’s free live webinar masterclass with Leonard Smith, III. (Click here to register.) Leonard is going to show you how to get started...
by Amy Kingsford | Sep 14, 2016 | Feature, Finding and Using Inspiration
Are you following our GIS Creative Team Pinboard? If not we want to give you a taste of what you’ve been missing! We feature inspiration from a new Creative Team member every other week over on Pinterest. With a combination of guest pins from our team members as...
by Amy Kingsford | Sep 13, 2016 | Feature, Write Your Story
Erasure, blackout, and crossout are all descriptions given to a type of poem or short prose work formed by taking selected words from an existing text. It’s a springboard that will take your story in new directions. Check out how our team has incorporated them...
by Amy Kingsford | Sep 7, 2016 | Feature, Scrapbook Page Subjects, Videos
Tribute pages that celebrate the impact of others on your life are a treasure to include in your albums. Quite often, the most impactful people in our lives are teachers. In this video blog by Christy Strickler, we will see how the Get It Scrapped Creative Team...
by Amy Kingsford | Sep 6, 2016 | Feature, Scrapbooking Tools and Skills
New “on-the-go” methods of memory keeping are gaining popularity as busy scrapbookers fit their hobby into their life. Here, we highlight the use of travel journals and apps like Project Life that make scrapbooking possible when we are away from our...
