by Debbie Hodge | Oct 8, 2012 | Embellishments, Feature, Ideas for Page Elements
by Debbie Hodge Making embellishment clusters is a great way to have fun with product, incorporate meaningful images, add repetitions and interest to the page and draw the viewer’s eye to the focal point. For some of us, clustering comes easily while others of...
by Debbie Hodge | Oct 4, 2012 | Copic Markers, Feature
by Michelle Houghton Hi everyone! I’ve got another copic coloring printable and tutorial for you! Here is a small critter that will be the perfect for your fall scrapbook pages and projects. Get started by downloading and printing this page full of hand-drawn...
by Debbie Hodge | Oct 3, 2012 | Feature, Ideas from Current Trends, Motif
by Debbie Hodge Fashion designers, home decorators, wedding designers, crafters, and even manicurists are creating with menswear-inspired prints. Pinstripe, chevron, herringbone, and houndstooth are classic patterns that can stand the test of time — and they do...
by Debbie Hodge | Oct 1, 2012 | Composition, Feature, Ideas Spurred by Design
by Debbie Hodge If you love playing with design, and want a new challenge, step away from the grid and the block for today (you’ll want to get back to them tomorrow because they are fabulous foundations) and try working with multiple clusters. [twocol_one]...
by Debbie Hodge | Sep 28, 2012 | One Month At A Time
by Tami Taylor Each month, Tami Taylor gives you a sketch and shows you how she’s scrapbooked the past month. She’s also got prompts for gathering memories in the upcoming month so that you can get your photos scrapbooked “one month at a time.” This month, I really...
by Debbie Hodge | Sep 27, 2012 | By # of Photos, Composition, Feature, Photos, Picture Your Story
by Debbie Hodge When you’re working with four photos there are basic photo cropping and sizing choices you make again and again: crop all photos the same size or create emphasis with a larger photo? crop with same orientation? works great for stacked or side-by-side....
by Debbie Hodge | Sep 26, 2012 | Design Principles, Feature, Ideas Spurred by Design
by Debbie Hodge In a symmetrically balanced visual design, elements on either side of a central axis balance one another. The act of riding a bike requires the balancing of physical weight on either side of a vertical axis. The act of creating a symmetrical visual...
by Debbie Hodge | Sep 25, 2012 | Digital / Photoshop Techniques for Scrapbooking, Feature, Ideas via Product & Technique
layout by Deborah Wagner Want to get started with digital scrapbooking but trying to make sense of just how it’s done? In this series of articles we show you a digital scrapbook page and then connect the dots between the elements on the page and the Photoshop...
by Debbie Hodge | Sep 24, 2012 | DoubleUp, Feature, Sketches and Layered Templates
See how scrapbookers Marie-Pierre Capistran and Tara McKernin used a one-page sketch/template from our Bundle #56 on their two-page layouts. Both Marie and Tara continued the “series” of photos in the original sketch over onto the second page, but each...
by Debbie Hodge | Sep 21, 2012 | 5 Year Journal, Feature
This is the ninth 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 on the home stretch of the hard part. You’ve chosen where...
