by Debbie Hodge | Oct 22, 2014 | Composition, Design Your Story
Some photos and scrapbook page stories are all about place. When setting is key to your story, extend it from the photos out onto the canvas with these scrapbooking ideas. And remember: the basic building blocks of written story–character, plot, and...
by Debbie Hodge | Oct 21, 2014 | Embellishments, Ideas via Product & Technique
What do you do with those big stand-out scrapbooking products that you can’t resist in the store or that come with a kit? We’re talking that big applique of a bug, the oversized veneer frame, or the bejeweled and dimensional flower–items that draw...
by Debbie Hodge | Oct 17, 2014 | Get It Scrapped!
With “Curated Albums,” revisit your body of scrapbooking work and pick out the very best pages and page combinations to tell overarching stories that compel you. This isn’t about re-ordering your current scrapbook albums. This isn’t about...
by Debbie Hodge | Oct 15, 2014 | Design Your Story, Picture Your Story
Today we’re oomphing our scrapbook page storytelling by incorporating basic building blocks of the best written stories: character, setting, and plot. 1. Character: The characters are the subjects in your photos, the people you’re sending a message to, or...
by Debbie Hodge | Oct 14, 2014 | Canvas, Composition
Do you ever make scrapbook page backgrounds ahead of time without know what you’ll be scrapbooking? Perhaps you make misted and painted backgrounds. Maybe you block out patterned paper bases. Or you could even use a sketch and create a base with spots for photos...
by Debbie Hodge | Oct 8, 2014 | Embellishments, Ideas for Page Elements, Ideas via Product & Technique, Picture Your Story
Free public domain images make great embellishment pieces for telling your scrapbook page stories–especially when you choose them to complement your photos and other page elements. You can find public domain illustrations by searching Google or Pinterest. You...
by Debbie Hodge | Oct 7, 2014 | Photography, Photos, Picture Your Story
The days of regretting a poor photo result are over. Software solutions make it easy to improve that under- or over-exposed, yellowed, or blurry shot. See how the Get It Scrapped Creative Team fixed up their poor photos and got them onto the scrapbook page....
by Debbie Hodge | Oct 1, 2014 | Everyday Life, Feature
What are your hobbies when you’re not scrapbooking? And have you scrapbooked them? Do you play video games? Collect stamps? Watch the stars? Check out the story angles and page designs our creative team has taken for their pages about their hobbies and geeky...
by Debbie Hodge | Sep 24, 2014 | Finding and Using Inspiration, Lift These Ideas
Studying scrapbook pages by others is a great way to get scrapbooking ideas for growing your own style. In this “study” look at how a scrapbooker has used product and design principles and how she’s handled the 5 parts of a scrapbook page (canvas, photos, title,...
by Debbie Hodge | Sep 23, 2014 | Color, Ideas from Current Trends
Bold rainbows are so 2013. Pastel rainbows are the trendy color combo today, and we’ve got scrapbook page ideas for using this color scheme on your layouts. Stamping, misting, copics, and Photoshop are all great tools for scrapbook page storytelling with pastel...
