by Debbie Hodge | May 26, 2015 | Digital / Photoshop Techniques for Scrapbooking, Ideas from Current Trends, Paper Techniques for Scrapbooking
Contour lines represent elevations on a topographical map and our creative team’s top trendspotter, Karen Poirier-Brode noted this trend’s emergence after winter 2014 CHA. We’ve put together a pinboard of contour-line inspiration and asked our team...
by Amy Kingsford | May 20, 2015 | Digital / Photoshop Techniques for Scrapbooking, Feature, Hybrid Scrapbooking, Ideas via Product & Technique, Titles
Designing with fonts gets less expensive when you use designer bundles like those at The Hungry Jpeg. They offer up a big selection of fonts and digital art at a heavy discount for a short time (usually a month). Over the last year, many of the scrapbookers spending...
by Debbie Hodge | May 19, 2015 | Give Your Photos Stories, Story Styles
Your best scrapbook pages reflect a storytelling style–your preference for certain kinds of stories and your way of telling them both visually and with words. We defined and illustrated 10 different story styles in the Story Styles LookBook that’s a part of the Get It...
by Debbie Hodge | May 13, 2015 | Ideas via Product & Technique
Zentangle techniques are structured designs for doodlers, usually done in a single color pen on a white background. Because it’s a structured approach to doodling, there are lots of formulas and lessons to pull from to making a zentangle design even if...
by Debbie Hodge | May 12, 2015 | Everyday Life, Finding and Using Inspiration, Ideas for Page Topics
Keeping planner with pretty notebooks and planner-specific products has become trendy. Kit club Cocoa Daisy has been offering popular planner add on since 2013. Bullet journaling is being recommended in a time when so many of us have gone digital with Evernote or...
by Debbie Hodge | May 8, 2015 | DoubleUp
Our newest class tackles TWO-PAGERS and we’re giving members two free related mini-classes through May 16. Scrapbooking Events and Travel is often done on two pagers. Top designers share their go-to techniques and no-fail touchpoints.
by Debbie Hodge | May 6, 2015 | Titles
Karen Grunberg tell us why she likes using long scrapbook page titles, how they tell her stories, and how they support her visual design. This article first appeared in the membership class “Titles.” For that class and 60 more, become a member. by Karen...
by Debbie Hodge | May 5, 2015 | Ideas for Page Topics, Yourself
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. See how the Get It Scrapped Creative Team scrapbooks teachers who’ve played a key role in...
by Amy Kingsford | Apr 29, 2015 | Finding and Using Inspiration, Page Prompts
Welcome back to our Scrapbook Page Prompts Series here at Get It Scrapped in which our team makes scrapbook pages from prompts that require certain products or approaches. Research suggests that limits can boost your creativity because they push you out of your...
by Debbie Hodge | Apr 28, 2015 | Ideas from Current Trends, Ideas via Product & Technique
Tension is an important element in making something beautiful, including scrapbook layout designs. Including an unexpected juxtaposition is one way to create tension. Creative Team member Karen Poirier-Brode reported on trends last year after attending a Pantone Trend...
