by Debbie Hodge | Apr 11, 2014 | Mixed Media, Paper Techniques for Scrapbooking
Each month Michelle Houghton is taking a look at a medium and one or more ways to add it to your layouts. Other artists from the Creative Team at Get It Scrapped will add inspiration to fuel your imagination and get you scrapping. This month we are taking a look at a...
by Debbie Hodge | Apr 11, 2014 | Podcast, This Memory Keeper's Life
Christy Strickler talks about “her scrapbook evolution,” how her scrapbooking and video game play are companion obsessions, her approach to learning with online craft classes, and her movement onto design teams and teaching her own classes. Christy...
by Debbie Hodge | Apr 9, 2014 | Color, Ideas from Current Trends
Complementary colors purple and yellow are a trendy scrapbooking color combination this year with Pantone’s color of the year pick of radiant orchid. With variations in hue and saturation this combo can yield a variety of looks. We’ve collected inspiration...
by Debbie Hodge | Apr 8, 2014 | Ideas for Page Elements, Ideas via Product & Technique
We found great scrapbooking ideas –and a product and technique challenge for you–from something we spotted in print materials like posters and packaging: overprinting. This is the process, in repographics, of printing one color on top of another. Using...
by Debbie Hodge | Apr 4, 2014 | Ideas for Page Elements, Photos
Photos are a key part of most scrapbook layouts, and the selection and cropping of them is an early step in the making of a scrapbook page. If you’re looking for new looks, consider photo layering. The Photo Play class in the Get It Scrapped membership got us...
by Debbie Hodge | Apr 3, 2014 | Podcast, This Memory Keeper's Life
In this episode of This Memory Keeper’s Life scrapbooking podcast, Debbie Hodge talks to Emily Pitts, Tami Taylor, Sue Althouse and other Get It Scrapped members about scrapbooking, motivation, assignments, using kits, and community and more. Emily Pitts |...
by Debbie Hodge | Apr 1, 2014 | Design Your Story, Ideas from Current Trends, Ideas via Product & Technique, Titles
A recent trend in print, fashion, and decor is to use ink and brushstrokes to create bold typography that’s a prominent part of a design. For your scrapbook page storytelling you can use it to draw attention, tell your story, and–as Amy Kingsford...
by Amy Kingsford | Mar 31, 2014 | Composition
We frequently share ideas for arranging the elements on your scrapbook pages for more efficient layout design. Here’s a closer look at five recent articles on this topic. Follow the links below to see the articles as well as our creative team members’...
by Debbie Hodge | Mar 27, 2014 | Podcast, This Memory Keeper's Life
In this episode of This Memory Keeper’s Life scrapbooking podcast, Betsy Sammarco, a hybrid scrapbooker and lover of rich and meaningful storytelling, talks to us about how she chooses product and design to make stories that resonate and endure....
by Debbie Hodge | Mar 26, 2014 | Design Your Story, Ideas from Current Trends, Journaling
Scrapbook page storytelling that’s done with a mix of both the obvious and the hinted-at engages the viewer or reader at a deeper level. On these pages we have scrapbooking ideas for supporting the clearly explained parts of a story with cut-paper collage. ...
