by Debbie Hodge | Sep 16, 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 | Sep 11, 2013 | Titles
Mix up your titlework with these scrapbooking ideas for ransom titles. Ransom titles are inspired by the look of a stereotypical ransom note in which the message is made with letters or even words cut from a magazine or newspaper so that the author’s handwriting...
by Debbie Hodge | Sep 10, 2013 | Ideas from Current Trends, Motif
Scrapbook layout ideas for color, motif, and styling can be found in the superhero-themed home decor and fashion items that have followed on Hollywood’s delivery of The Avengers, Ironman’s sequel, Thor, a remake of Spiderman and the end of the Dark Knight...
by Debbie Hodge | Sep 9, 2013 | Feature, Finding and Using Inspiration, Get It Scrapped!
When you’re looking for a starting point and ideas for a scrapbook page, you want resources for getting the job done, and Pinterest probably has what you need–if you could only find it. Scrapbooker Marie-Pierre Capistran uses Pinterest to spark her...
by Debbie Hodge | Sep 5, 2013 | Motif, Patterned Paper
Find scrapbooking ideas for using juvenile print patterns on your layouts. These prints are bright and fun, with whimsical styling and often featuring motifs like critters or trucks that resonate with young children. how our creative team used juvenile patterned...
by Debbie Hodge | Sep 4, 2013 | Design Your Story, Masterful Scrapbook Design, Write Your Story
by Debbie Hodge I originally became interested in the idea of setting a mental clock ticking (to create tension) when I studied fiction writing. As a scrapbooker, I thought a lot about getting tension into the written component of my storytelling–but not so much...
by Debbie Hodge | Sep 4, 2013 | Composition, Ideas Spurred by Design
Any photo, title, or embellishment you add to a scrapbook layout is seen as a part of the whole page before it is seen as an individual piece. Place the photo just a bit to the right and above center on your canvas and the eye will see it as “restless”...
by Debbie Hodge | Sep 3, 2013 | Ideas from Current Trends, Motif, Travel
The newly-popular ‘glamping’ trend offers up a wealth scrapbooking ideas for choosing color, motif, texture, and pattern for scrapbook layouts. Glamping refers to vacationing in nature, but with amenities not typically associated with...
by Debbie Hodge | Aug 30, 2013 | Masterful Scrapbook Design
Tension is an important element in making something beautiful, including scrapbook layout designs. Consider the good guy and the bad guy in fiction, vertical columns supporting curves in architecture, hard movements combined with flowing movements in dance. Tension...
by Debbie Hodge | Aug 29, 2013 | Feature, Quotes and Word Art
Use happy birthday quotes and printable word art on your paper or digital scrapbook layouts and projects — for titlework, embellishing, and even journaling. You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old. ~ George Burns The way I see...
