by Debbie Hodge | Mar 25, 2014 | Ideas via Product & Technique
Glitter is currently trendy for makeup, clothing, accessories and even home decor. It catches the eye and it’s a great support to lots of scrapbook page stories. 1. add glitter to a “landscape” for a sense of the extraordinary Celeste Smith says,...
by Debbie Hodge | Mar 21, 2014 | Ideas via Product & Technique, Paper Techniques for Scrapbooking
Are you curious about the difference between water soluble mediums? This month let’s take a closer look at watercolors, watercolor pencils, water soluble oil pastels and Gelatos. We will look at the similarities and the differences between these 4 water-friendly...
by Debbie Hodge | Mar 21, 2014 | Podcast, This Memory Keeper's Life
In this episode of This Memory Keeper’s Life, Jana Morton, digital scrapbooker, product designer and teacher of advanced digital techniques talks to us about the vision that guides her pages and the ways she creates digital art from her own photos. Jana...
by Amy Kingsford | Mar 21, 2014 | Feature, Give Your Photos Stories
In this episode of Give Your Photos Stories scrapbooking podcast we talk about photos snapped while sitting at the table and the stories that accompany them. Debbie Hodge is joined by guests Ronnie Crowley, Christy Strickler and Amanda Robinson. Please share your own...
by Debbie Hodge | Mar 19, 2014 | Design Principles, Ideas Spurred by Design, Photos
Part of scrapbook page storytelling is putting things together so that the viewer knows where to start looking and then where to look next and next. There are several tools for creating flow on the scrapbook page. One technique is to understand that the viewer’s...
by Debbie Hodge | Mar 17, 2014 | Ideas via Product & Technique, Patterned Paper
Printed transparencies offer the opportunity to layer image on image — to see through one pattern or image to another. Our team has scrapbooking ideas for using premade transparencies and for making your own (both digital and paper). [hr] hide...
by Debbie Hodge | Mar 14, 2014 | Time Lapse Video Tutorials, Videos
In this scrapbooking process video, I give you a time-lapse look at the making of a scrapbook page very quickly. I made this page last night from about 11pm to midnight. Making a page in a hour used to be a rarity for me, but lately, as I’ve concentrated on leveraging...
by Debbie Hodge | Mar 13, 2014 | Ideas
Are you born with your design style? and, thus, your scrapbooking style? Not exactly. But you’re born with and develop aesthetic preferences as well as the ability and desire to express yourself through clothing, voice, hobbies, friends, interests and more. Your...
by Debbie Hodge | Mar 12, 2014 | Everyday Life, Ideas for Page Topics
In addition to scrapbooking those photos you take without thinking, take time, also, to stage photos for scrapbooked storytelling about the constant aspects of your life — like the drinking of tea and coffee. Here are three story angles for recording the...
by Debbie Hodge | Mar 11, 2014 | Digital / Photoshop Techniques for Scrapbooking, Ideas via Product & Technique, Paper Techniques for Scrapbooking
Adding layered stencilwork to your scrapbook layouts and art journaling pages is a great way to make them original–one of a kind. You’ve got motif, medium, dimension, texture, color, direction and more to work with. create a foundation of...
