by Debbie Hodge | Dec 19, 2013 | Get It Scrapped!
a free tool that makes it easy to give your photos stories Debbie here. I love writing about the photos I take and the things that are going on in my life right now. Even more than the writing, I love having these memories recorded–so that I can look...
by Debbie Hodge | Dec 18, 2013 | Composition, Design Principles
You’ve heard about all those design principles and scrapbooking “dos” — now see how to shake things up when you’re smart about breaking the rules. See how 6 of our creative team members set about making a page with the intent of breaking at least one scrapbook design...
by Debbie Hodge | Dec 17, 2013 | Give Your Photos Stories, Picture Your Story, Story Swoop, Write Your Story
Teenager Joshua Niman uses the Story Swoop prompts and writing guide to set the tone for a whole summer with one photo. Story Swoop is a free tool here at Get It Scrapped that you can use to quickly record feelings, details, and context for your photos. You can upload...
by Debbie Hodge | Dec 16, 2013 | Everyday Life, Motif, Travel, Yourself
Is there a place that has your heart? Is there a location with unique characteristics that you’re passionate about? Personalize a scrapbook page about a loved location by incorporating details that are unique to the location. Try: city/country seals...
by Debbie Hodge | Dec 13, 2013 | Paper Techniques for Scrapbooking
by Michelle Houghton Since it is December and we are all surrounded by holiday colors and decorations I thought it was appropriate to look at a technique that brings one of the colors of the season right onto your layouts: gold. There are many ways these days to add...
by Debbie Hodge | Dec 12, 2013 | Color
The Get It Scrapped Creative Team members love working with color and made sure we had plenty of 2013 articles in which they worked with color creatively. Here are one dozen creative color posts with more than 100 scrapbook layouts for your inspiration. ...
by Debbie Hodge | Dec 11, 2013 | Color, Feature
What’s your favorite Christmas color scheme? While saturated reds and greens are the traditional colors of Christmas, you can get a fresh look with “tints” of these colors. (A tint is a color with white added.) Check out these pastel Christmas pages...
by Debbie Hodge | Dec 10, 2013 | Composition, Design Elements, Design Your Story
No matter how you turn it, a circle shape stays the same. There’s a perfection in this shape. And it presents challenges. The space outside of the circle has an odd shape that’s not as easy to work with, especially when you’re combining circles....
by Debbie Hodge | Dec 5, 2013 | Ideas from Current Trends, Patterned Paper
After a season of pattern mashups, the newest trend in print mixing in fashion is to mix same or very similar prints in different sizes and colors. Inspired by this trend, our team made pages with the same motif mixed in a variety of colors and sizes and styles....
by Debbie Hodge | Dec 4, 2013 | Write Your Story, Yourself
Personal storytelling is about both the events in the story and what the story means to you. Story Coach lessons help you find stories, present them in a compelling way, and discover what they really mean. The layouts and stories below came out of the prompts and...