by Debbie Hodge | Oct 12, 2013 | Write Your Story
Want to write your memoir piece by piece? Here’s another installment in the personal storytelling I’m doing as a part of the Story Coach classes. Story Coach #6 | Objects of My Youth guides you through recalling items from your childhood, connecting them...
by Debbie Hodge | Oct 11, 2013 | One Month At A Time
by Tami Taylor On the 1st Friday of each month, Tami Taylor gives you a round up sketches from the past three years of “One Month at a Time”. I’ve been scrapbooking “one month at a time” for three years now and I’ve got 3 years...
by Debbie Hodge | Oct 10, 2013 | Embellishments
Embellish scrapbook pages with clusters and you’ve got a fun way to make both showy and simple additions. We shared 6 kinds of embellishment clusters in an earlier article — and one of those is the SERIES CLUSTER. With a series cluster, line your...
by Debbie Hodge | Oct 9, 2013 | Composition
Working with a starter foundation to begin a scrapbook layout is a good way to make pages more efficiently — and to complete pages that have a solid composition. The key is to use a starter foundation that’s a solid base for layout design. The...
by Debbie Hodge | Oct 8, 2013 | Get It Scrapped!
Personal storytelling is about both the story and what it means to you. Story Coach lessons help you find stories, present them in a compelling way, and discover what they really mean.[twocol_one]The layouts and stories below came out of the prompts and writing guide...
by Debbie Hodge | Oct 7, 2013 | Photos, Picture Your Story, Write Your Story
Photo-inspired storytelling that starts with an intent endures. Grab one of those photos sitting on your camera or phone or hard drive and tell its story today. Give your photos stories Go beyond the who, what, where and why to what it means. Answer the 5 prompts...
by Debbie Hodge | Oct 4, 2013 | About Memory Keeping, Write Your Story
When I can’t sleep at night I set myself the task of thinking about my work. I roll on my side, hug my pillow close, and pose myself a problem: How can I evoke a sense of time passing visually on a layout? I don’t do this to put myself to sleep–though sleep will...
by Debbie Hodge | Oct 2, 2013 | Finding and Using Inspiration, Ideas from Current Trends
Frida Kahlo’s personal style, art, and attitude all provide scrapbooking ideas for design, motif, topics, and more. Last November, Frida Kahlo’s entire clothing collection, which had been locked away for almost 50 years, went on display in the Frida Kahlo...
by Debbie Hodge | Oct 1, 2013 | Composition, Design Principles
Arranging and placing your scrapbook layout elements to create variations in density and cluster size is a way to create tension in some spots and release in others. (Check out more multi-cluster pages.) Do this with an eye toward using this variations to create...
by Debbie Hodge | Sep 27, 2013 | Feature, Quotes and Word Art
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. ~Benjamin Franklin A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer. ~Bruce Lee Click here to download zipped file with png and pdf files I am always...
