by Debbie Hodge | Oct 23, 2012 | Events, Feature, Scrapbook Page Subjects
Scrapbooking a fall outing? Take a look at these pages from our creative team and MSD teachers, and pay attention to: colors products photo crops layout design, and embellishment And then check out quotations and word art for scrapbooking autumn. Doris Sander says,...
by Amy Kingsford | Oct 22, 2012 | Feature, Motif
by Amy Kingsford Check out home decor and fashion images and you’ll find owls, deer, squirrels and other “critters.” Embellishments and papers with these motifs are available, too. Clara Lafrance says that these nature inspired motifs are nostalgic,...
by Debbie Hodge | Oct 19, 2012 | 5 Year Journal, Feature
This is the tenth installment of: “Keep a 5 year Journal.” At midmonth, Tami shares her progress and the list of questions for the upcoming month. Click here to see all 12 months. by Tami Taylor We are closing in on the first year of our 5 Year Journal. How are you...
by Debbie Hodge | Oct 17, 2012 | By # of Photos, Composition, Feature, Photos, Picture Your Story
by Debbie Hodge Here are 4 approaches that work with common crop and size combinations for scrapbooking five photos: series (row or column) grids and blocks 4 + 1 arrangement layered cluster 1. Arrange 5 photos in a series When your photos are of similar size and the...
by Debbie Hodge | Oct 16, 2012 | Feature, Patterned Paper
by Debbie Hodge Office-print patterns like grids, ledgers, and school-ruled papers are great choices for your scrapbook pages for several reasons including: they support of school, study and growth themes, they make great bases, the come with built-in journaling...
by Debbie Hodge | Oct 15, 2012 | Composition, Feature, Finding and Using Inspiration, Lift These Ideas
It’s the accumulation of well-chosen and carefully crafted details that create a masterful scrapbook page. Check out 5 details on “This is the Question” by Kiki Kougioumtzi and see if one or two of them can inspire your next page. Kiki says, “The inspiration...
by Debbie Hodge | Oct 12, 2012 | Feature, Sketches and Layered Templates
by Debbie Hodge Here are two new coordinated scrapbook page sketches with free layered templates for digital scrapbooking. Use one of these singly or, when you’re making a multi-page album, these sketches complement each other well. You can find all of our sketches in...
by Debbie Hodge | Oct 11, 2012 | Feature, Quotes and Word Art
Use food quotes and printable word art on your paper or digital scrapbook layouts and projects — for titlework, embellishing, and even journaling. Life is a combination of magic and pasta. -Federico Fellini Always start out with a larger pot than what you think...
by Debbie Hodge | Oct 10, 2012 | Color, Feature
About Blue | Blue Dominating | Blue Drawing the Eye | Blue Guiding the Eye | Blue Accenting About the Color Blue Color conveys meanings or evokes feelings in three chief ways. See the resulting associations with blue for each trigger. 1. PHYSIOLOGICAL...
by Debbie Hodge | Oct 9, 2012 | Feature, Ideas for Page Elements, Titles
by Debbie Hodge Titles can do more than label a page. They can cue the page subject, enhance page design, draw the viewer right on into the journaling, and just plain dazzle. Take a look at long titles on the pages below for the way they enrich the stories being told...
