by Debbie Hodge | Aug 26, 2014 | Everyday Life
Eating outdoors is often an outing of note and one that has a place on your scrapbook page. Here we’ve got ideas for telling those stories. Susanne Brauer says, “When we were little we went on lots of fishing trips, but the best bites of the day, in my...
by Debbie Hodge | Aug 20, 2014 | Design Your Story, Picture Your Story, Write Your Story
The story sharing and photo sharing you do on social media can provide a great resource for making scrapbook pages. It means you’ve already identified moments as share-worthy and found photos to represent those moments. You might even have edited and cropped the...
by Debbie Hodge | Aug 19, 2014 | Color, Ideas via Product & Technique, Patterned Paper
If you’re a patterned paper lover, surely you’ve got a stash of papers calling to you. Challenge yourself to shake up your scrapbooking page storytelling process by starting with a patterned paper and color before your photos or story. It will give you a...
by Debbie Hodge | Aug 14, 2014 | News
The Get It Scrapped membership is a library of 50+ design and storytelling classes with a new class the first Wednesday of every month. Story Play is coming next and you can save 25% on membership this week–but grab it before August 22nd when the discount goes...
by Amy Kingsford | Aug 14, 2014 | Finding and Using Inspiration
See the Nature pins on the Get It Scrapped Pinterest Boards for scrapbooking ideas you can use on your own layout designs. why nature? While some color and motif associations derive from personal and cultural experiences that vary around the world, the ones that come...
by Debbie Hodge | Aug 13, 2014 | Design Your Story, Finding and Using Inspiration, Ideas Spurred by Design
Scrapbook page storytelling is visual storytelling, so why not turn to currently popular infographic design, including Venn diagrams, for inspiration? A Venn diagram lets you show logical relationships between the elements within sets via visual overlaps. You’re...
by Debbie Hodge | Aug 12, 2014 | Embellishments, Ideas from Current Trends, Ideas via Product & Technique
While the expected goal of making a scrapbook page is to get photos presented and stories recorded, there’s lots of creative satisfaction to be had in working with new and trendy scrapbooking product. Product can even be the spur that gets you inspired to make a...
by Debbie Hodge | Aug 6, 2014 | Color
A pink and navy scrapbook page color scheme for your scrapbook pages modernizes a primary color combination, and changes the associations your viewer has with the page. Red has a color story of energy, passion, and danger. Pink, though, is a calming color with...
by Debbie Hodge | Aug 5, 2014 | Composition, Sketches and Layered Templates
Using scrapbook page templates and sketches is a great way to get pages made. The Get It Scrapped membership now includes an always-growing library of 70+ sketches and layered templates. An all-access pass gets you all of them. A sketch/template doesn’t have to...
by Debbie Hodge | Aug 4, 2014 | Digital / Photoshop Techniques for Scrapbooking, Hybrid Scrapbooking, Ideas for Page Elements, Titles
Text is a great tool for telling stories on the scrapbook page–both because of the content you can include and because the typeface used to render it can tell a story. A typeface has a personality. With a change in typeface, you can go from formal to casual,...
