by Debbie Hodge | Aug 28, 2013 | Color, Ideas from Current Trends
Take a scrapbooking idea from the ombre color trend. It has shown up on cakes, hair, fingernails, fashion, and stationary so why not on scrapbooking layouts? ombre: having colors or tones that shade into each other —used especially of fabrics in which the color is...
by Debbie Hodge | Aug 27, 2013 | Feature, Finding and Using Inspiration
A great source of scrapbooking ideas are the examples of well-designed “gallery walls” or “photo walls,” that abound on home decor blogs. These gallery walls are appealing examples of how to display a collection of framed images. We asked our...
by Debbie Hodge | Aug 27, 2013 | News
The Digi Files is presented every month by The Daily Digi. For $7.50 you get over $50 of digital supplies created by a variety of designers. (And this month’s bundle is only available for 4 more days — through August 31.) I LOVE my monthly subscription for...
by Debbie Hodge | Aug 26, 2013 | Feature, Finding and Using Inspiration
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 Sue Althouse was an early adopter of Pinterest and has...
by Debbie Hodge | Aug 23, 2013 | Get It Scrapped!
by Amy Kingsford This is a part 3 in a 3-part series that lays out how I approach the work of translating the inspiration from creative displays to my personal scrapbook pages. The series: Look for the underlying foundation of the display. (covered in Part 1) Study...
by Debbie Hodge | Aug 23, 2013 | Write Your Story
I’m writing my life story, one piece at a time, and you can learn how to write a memoir this way, too. Last night I finished “In Transit.” It’s the story of a recent roadtrip. And it’s more. The details of one day of travel became a...
by Debbie Hodge | Aug 22, 2013 | Feature, Ideas for Page Elements, Ideas from Current Trends, Patterned Paper
Botanical and zoological prints have an old-fashioned look that fits well with many scrapbook layout subjects–and that just looks beautiful as you’ll see in the scrapbooking ideas here. Illustrations made for scientific purposes — botanical and...
by Debbie Hodge | Aug 21, 2013 | Feature, Ideas from Current Trends, Ideas via Product & Technique
Pinwheels are simple to make and customize, and our team has ideas for making them a great addition to your scrapbook layouts. Pinwheels are simple curled-paper toys attached to a stick with a pin-axle so that when blown on — or carried running — they...
by Debbie Hodge | Aug 20, 2013 | Ideas from Current Trends, Paper Techniques for Scrapbooking
by Michelle Houghton Pinwheels are trendy scrapbook layout embellishments. And they are easy to make yourself. Use the instructions that follow to customize embellishments that make scrapbooking personal. You need a few supplies: double sided paper glue dot brad or...
by Debbie Hodge | Aug 19, 2013 | Feature, Finding and Using Inspiration, Their Cool Thing Now
Anna Aspnes has been making scrapbook layouts for over a decade. Scrapbooking pages about herself has got Anna excited about scrapbooking lately. When you come upon a new technique, product, story approach, design challenge or just SOMETHING that gets you excited, you...
