by Debbie Hodge | Apr 11, 2013 | Digital / Photoshop Techniques for Scrapbooking, Feature, Ideas via Product & Technique
by Debbie Hodge Since the launch of the Scrapbook Coach series, I’ve gotten great feedback and questions. One thing asked by several is about cutting digital papers in Photoshop to make a page. Oftentimes when we start a new hobby–like Digital...
by Debbie Hodge | Apr 10, 2013 | News
Drawings for $500 in gift cards to celebrate our anniversary Get It Scrapped is 5 years old. To celebrate, we’re buying gift cards from many of our favorite suppliers of scrapbooking, printing, and photo-taking supplies and giving them to 10 of our...
by Debbie Hodge | Apr 10, 2013 | Composition, Feature
by Debbie Hodge There are several layout configurations of combined elements that scrapbookers use again and again when making scrapbook pages (for example, blocked, clustered, and shaped). These foundations are used again and again because they work well for housing...
by Debbie Hodge | Apr 9, 2013 | Feature, Ideas from Current Trends, Motif
by Debbie Hodge why are arrows trendy? Archery made a big showing in pop culture last year, with Katniss in The Hunger Games, Miranda in Brave, and Hawkeye in The Avengers all using bows and arrows to achieve their ends. Archery has become a newly popular activity...
by Debbie Hodge | Apr 8, 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. Digital scrapbooker and designer Lynnette Penacho uses inspiration...
by Debbie Hodge | Apr 5, 2013 | Composition, Digital / Photoshop Techniques for Scrapbooking, Feature, Time Lapse Video Tutorials, Videos
by Debbie Hodge When I began this page I knew that I wanted to make a page that included lots of buttons and pretty bits in a profusion alongside two photos from the Easter Table. I started with two same-sized photos. It took me a bit of time to figure out that I...
by Debbie Hodge | Apr 4, 2013 | Composition, Embellishments, Feature
When you set up a visual situation with tension, the viewer feels like something isn’t quite right, that something might happen they don’t want to miss. And so they dive into your piece and stay! One way to add tension to scrapbook pages is to “break...
by Debbie Hodge | Apr 3, 2013 | Feature, Get It Scrapped!, Ideas for Page Elements, Ideas via Product & Technique
by Debbie Hodge As more of us read books on electronic devices, the actual paper page takes on an aspect of nostalgia — and of the treasured! Book pages for making art are available in digital forms, in torn bundles from Etsy, and in books you pick up at the...
by Debbie Hodge | Apr 2, 2013 | Everyday Life, Feature, Ideas for Page Topics
by Debbie Hodge Weather is a part of your daily life. It can affect your mood. It can limit or make possible activities. The earliest diarists recorded the weather in their journals. Get the weather on your scrapbook pages. Let it be a backdrop for your stories or...
by Debbie Hodge | Apr 1, 2013 | Feature, One Month At A Time
by Tami Taylor 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 worth of prompts,...
