by Debbie Hodge | Jun 26, 2013 | Feature, Motif
by Debbie Hodge In today’s information-packed world, the infographic has become a popular way to tell a lot with pictures, numbers and few words. We recently showed you how an infographic can inspire your scrapbook page design. Here we show you how one piece of the...
by Debbie Hodge | Jun 25, 2013 | Color, Feature
With their announcement of emerald green as the 2013 color of the year, Pantone said, “”Lively. Radiant. Lush… A color of elegance and beauty that enhances our sense of well-being, balance and harmony.” How did it come about that the color so...
by Debbie Hodge | Jun 24, 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. Leah Farquharson loves using inspiration she finds on Pinterest as a...
by Amy Kingsford | Jun 21, 2013 | Feature, Quotes and Word Art
Travel quotes and printable word art can be used on scrapbook layouts in the place of titlework, embellishing, or even journaling. Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson We wander for...
by Debbie Hodge | Jun 20, 2013 | Feature, News
I love telling stories — and getting inspiration to find and tell new ones–which is why I’m looking forward to Ali Edwards’ Hello Story. It’s an online class that starts in a couple of weeks and goes through the summer and into September....
by Debbie Hodge | Jun 19, 2013 | Feature, Ideas from Current Trends
by Debbie Hodge “Folk” art is the art of the people — and the motifs and colors will vary with those peoples (and cultures) in which they arose. Folk art is defined by Dictionary.com as being marked with attributes of “highly decorative design,...
by Debbie Hodge | Jun 18, 2013 | Feature, Travel
The “themed” vacation is one that takes you into a created world where you are doing more than viewing, where you’re entering into and experiencing a manufactured reality. You may have gone on a Disney vacation, visited a historic settlement where you’re re-enacting...
by Debbie Hodge | Jun 17, 2013 | Feature, Journaling, News
Craft a memoir one story at a time. Fill your blog, journals, and scrapbooks with rich, well-paced storytelling that records your life.[twocol_one]Story Coach shows you how to find the stories that matter and then write them with pacing, rhythm, and flow that involve...
by Amy Kingsford | Jun 17, 2013 | Feature, Finding and Using Inspiration, Ideas via Product & Technique, Their Cool Thing Now
When you come upon a new technique, product, story approach, design challenge or just SOMETHING that gets you excited, you often find that the the creating comes easier and faster. You start using this new “cool thing” again and again because it results in...
by Debbie Hodge | Jun 12, 2013 | Feature, Motif, Patterned Paper
We challenged the GIS Creative Team to mix plaid and paisley patterns on a page. See how they made it work with an attention to color, scale, density and motif combinations. Take the challenge: Make a new paisley-and-plaid scrapbook page. Put it in our Community...
