by Debbie Hodge | Jul 31, 2013 | Feature, Ideas via Product & Technique
With a personal die-cut machine like the Silhouette Cameo, you can make layers and stencils for layout backgrounds. Our team has scrapbooking ideas here that use full-page die cuts for masked, textured and layered backgrounds. layer a full-page cutout Christy...
by Debbie Hodge | Jul 30, 2013 | Composition, Feature
Our minds and eyes like things that come in threes: three coins in a fountain, three-act plays, and The Three Little Pigs. Use this idea for scrapbook layout designs. It will speed up your process and give you well-design pages. Speech coaches, writers, and comedians...
by Amy Kingsford | Jul 29, 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. Amanda Jones Robinson loves using inspiration she finds on Pinterest...
by Amy Kingsford | Jul 26, 2013 | Feature, Finding and Using Inspiration
by Amy Kingsford I truly LOVE using inspiration to spark ideas for my scrapbook pages and guide my design choices throughout my creative process. In Translate Creative Displays and Vignettes to Your Scrapbook Layout Design I talked about one of my favorite types of...
by Debbie Hodge | Jul 25, 2013 | Everyday Life, Ideas for Page Topics
Check out a round-up of scrapbook pages with portraits of our favorite guys. Deborah Wagner says, “These are cute photos of my nephew goofing around, and I scrapbooked them with an Andy-Warhol-inspired photo treatment.” Deborah repeated the colors from the...
by Debbie Hodge | Jul 24, 2013 | Feature, Ideas from Current Trends, Motif
The cityscape motif is appearing on scrapbook pages lately. It seems we’re dreaming of urban life. Over at Trendhunter.com the trendiness of the cityscape motif for fashion and home decor was noted with the following thoughts: “For centuries, art depicting...
by Debbie Hodge | Jul 23, 2013 | Feature, Titles
A scrapbook page title is key for both telling your story and strengthening a scrapbook page’s visual design. One way to get your title working for you right away is to create a “two-part title,” one in which you break the title content into two...
by Debbie Hodge | Jul 22, 2013 | Composition, Feature, News
The “cross” or “t” foundation is found in art and graphic design, and it offers a strong base for scrapbook page layouts. This composition incorporates both opposition and union: two strong lines run in different directions and yet meet, crossing over at an...
by Debbie Hodge | Jul 17, 2013 | Digital / Photoshop Techniques for Scrapbooking, Feature, Hybrid Scrapbooking, Ideas via Product & Technique, Paper Techniques for Scrapbooking
by Debbie Hodge With the rise in popularity of digital cutting machines the word “weld” has come to have a new meaning for papercrafters. Welding has come to refer to when elements are connected so that they can be cut as one piece even though there are...
by Debbie Hodge | Jul 16, 2013 | Composition, Feature, Ideas Spurred by Design
by Debbie Hodge There are several layout configurations of combined elements that scrapbookers use again and again when making scrapbook pages (blocked, clustered, shelf, cross, band and more). A quick way to get a new look and add instant energy to your page is to...
