by Debbie Hodge | Aug 28, 2012 | Feature, Ideas via Product & Technique, Patterned Paper
Floral prints can range from pretty and delicate to big and bold. Each has its own personality. Floral prints are, thus, a great tool for any visual storyteller. You’ll find patterned papers for scrapbooking in four general types. These same four patterns are...
by Debbie Hodge | Aug 27, 2012 | DoubleUp, Feature, Sketches and Layered Templates
See how Terry Billman and Michelle Houghton used a one-page sketch/template from our Bundle #82 on their two-page layouts. Repeat the cluster of smaller photos on the 2nd page Terry Billman used the arrangement of the photos in the sketch/template pretty much as-is on...
by Debbie Hodge | Aug 24, 2012 | Sketches and Layered Templates
by Debbie Hodge Here are three 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...
by Debbie Hodge | Aug 24, 2012 | Design Principles, Feature, Ideas Spurred by Design
A successful scrapbook page captures the viewer’s attention, controls the eye’s movement, conveys information, and evokes emotion. That first task–capturing the eye’s attention–is the work of making a focal point. Photos are most often the focal points on scrapbook...
by Debbie Hodge | Aug 23, 2012 | Feature, News
I met several of the women I now work with at Get It Scrapped and Masterful Scrapbook Design because we were in a critique group together over 5 years ago. Celeste Smith, Doris Sander, Betsy Sammarco, Paula Gilarde and I used to post our pages for each other (and the...
by Debbie Hodge | Aug 23, 2012 | Copic Markers, Feature, Get It Scrapped!
by Michelle Houghton Here is a tutorial and image for you to color along with me. I had a specific request for detailed fabric folds so I created this silly little pig in a tutu for you to experiment with. Some important information if you are new to my series: If...
by Debbie Hodge | Aug 22, 2012 | Color, Feature
About Yellow | Yellow Dominating | Yellow Drawing the Eye | Yellow Guiding the Eye | Yellow Accenting About the Color Yellow Color conveys meanings or evokes feelings in three chief ways. See the resulting associations with yellow for each trigger. 1....
by Debbie Hodge | Aug 21, 2012 | Embellishments, Feature, Ideas for Page Elements, Titles
While a scrapbook page title isn’t essential, other times a few emphasized words can go a long way toward immediately conveying page subject, setting tone, and even cueing deeper page themes and meaning. Designwise, your title can draw the eye and be a part of page...
by Debbie Hodge | Aug 20, 2012 | 5 Year Journal, Feature
This is the eighth 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 I’m over half way through the first year (I promise it’s the...
by Debbie Hodge | Aug 20, 2012 | Composition, Design Principles, Digital / Photoshop Techniques for Scrapbooking, Feature, Ideas Spurred by Design, Time Lapse Video Tutorials, Videos
by Debbie Hodge See the making of this page by Debbie Hodge from start to finish in a video tutorial that includes photo edits, finding a magazine layout to guide element placement and putting everything together in a way that merges a graphic look with a love of...
