by Debbie Hodge | Mar 10, 2015 | Embellishments
Adding scrapbook page embellishment with clusters lets you play with product, incorporate meaningful images, and adds visual repetitions that guide the eye around the page. Our team shows you their favorite ways to add embellishment clusters to the scrapbook page. See...
by Amy Kingsford | Mar 9, 2015 | Ideas via Product & Technique, Motif, Picture Your Story, Videos
In “flat geometric” works, the designs are rendered with geometric shapes on flat surfaces in a way that conveys depth and dimension. Color, value, and shape all combine to create the illusion of dimension. This trend is popular now in illustration, home decor, and...
by Debbie Hodge | Mar 5, 2015 | Everyday Life, Ideas for Page Topics
Doris Sander talked with us about her love of the outdoors and of photographing nature and how she tells stories with those photos on scrapbook pages. She also shared with us how the act of blogging has evolved for her, its place in her life now, and how her...
by Debbie Hodge | Mar 4, 2015 | Photos, Yourself
Do your nature photos make it onto the scrapbook page, or do you save them for framing and sharing on Instagram. We’ve got scrapbooking ideas here for using nature photos on the page to tell a story about yourself. Look for an interview with Doris Sander on this...
by Debbie Hodge | Mar 3, 2015 | Design Principles, Digital / Photoshop Techniques for Scrapbooking
by Anna Aspnes This lesson originally appeared in the Get It Scrapped Membership class Tension. Click here to get all the lessons on this topic with an all access pass. Visual balance, focal point emphasis, and flow are all important to a successful visual design....
by Debbie Hodge | Mar 2, 2015 | Motif, Picture Your Story, Videos
The family tree motif has been used to represent lineage since the biblical Book of Isaiah. Today this motif endures both for practical and decorative use. Below see a video version of a Get It Scrapped blog post filled with ideas for using the family tree motif on...
by Amy Kingsford | Feb 25, 2015 | Page Prompts
Welcome back to the monthly scrapbook page prompt series here at Get It Scrapped in which our team makes scrapbook pages from prompts that specific products or approaches. Research suggests that limits can boost your creativity because they push you out of your...
by Debbie Hodge | Feb 24, 2015 | Ideas from Current Trends
The Oxford art dictionary defines kitsch as: art, objects, or design considered to be in poor taste because of excessive garishness or sentimentality, but sometimes appreciated in an ironic or knowing way. Some of the world’s greatest artworks are kitsch. The...
by Debbie Hodge | Feb 23, 2015 | Feature, Ideas from Current Trends, Videos
When you want new scrapbooking ideas, home decor is a great source. Here’s a video version of blog post in which the Get It Scrapped Creative Team put mid-century modern decor looks to work on their scrapbook layouts. Click here to see the original post with...
by Debbie Hodge | Feb 18, 2015 | Composition, Design Your Story
Your best scrapbook pages reflect a visual 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...