by Debbie Hodge | Jul 24, 2012 | Feature, Photos, Picture Your Story
When you want to show both the details and the context of a situation or when you want to reveal different angles of a subject, use the same (or very similar photos) with different crops. Jana Morton used two shots of her son at bat and cropped each differently. The...
by Debbie Hodge | Jul 23, 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 “Crazy Circular Car Conversation No 676 ” by Celeste Smith and see if one or two of them can inspire your next page. This is just one of...
by Debbie Hodge | Jul 20, 2012 | 5 Year Journal, Feature
by Tami Taylor Welcome back. This is the seventh installment of: “Keep a 5 year Journal.” At midmonth, I share my progress and the list of questions for the upcoming month. Click here to see all 12 months. This month I’m just so glad I started this project...
by Debbie Hodge | Jul 19, 2012 | Events, Everyday Life, Feature, Ideas for Page Topics, Scrapbook Page Subjects, Travel
Scrapbooking a beach 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 embellishing quotes and beach fonts in our Quickstart Series. On...
by Debbie Hodge | Jul 19, 2012 | Feature, Theme Quickstarts
Hallmark Images of the Beach | Fonts for Beach Pages | Beach Sayings and Phrases Making a Beach page? Use these “quickstarts” to get ideas for your page motifs, embellishments, wordart, titles, and fonts. Hallmark Images of the Beach sand...
by Debbie Hodge | Jul 18, 2012 | Crafty Projects, Feature, Ideas via Product & Technique, Paper Techniques for Scrapbooking
By Michelle Houghton Do you like to doodle? I LOVE to doodle, and, with several years under my belt of doodling pictures for other people, I have gotten OK at drawing several simple images and can even break them down in order to teach others how to draw them. A best...
by Debbie Hodge | Jul 17, 2012 | Digital / Photoshop Techniques for Scrapbooking, Feature, Paper Techniques for Scrapbooking
Punches and die cuts originally entered the crafter’s toolkit for making positive shapes: for punching out circles and tags and alphas. Lately, though, scrapbookers have been purchasing electronic die-cutting machines that make the creation of custom punched...
by Amy Kingsford | Jul 16, 2012 | Feature, Motif
by Amy Kingsford Common associations with birds are of freedom, nature, monogamy and spirituality. Particular types of birds are often associated with a variety of other meanings including love, bravery, and wisdom. Combine the beauty of bird images with the abstract...
by Debbie Hodge | Jul 13, 2012 | Color, Feature, Ideas Spurred by Design
About Purple | Purple Dominating | Purple Drawing the Eye | Purple Guiding the Eye | Purple Accenting About the Color Purple Color conveys meanings or evokes feelings in three chief ways. See the resulting associations with purple for each trigger. 1....
by Debbie Hodge | Jul 12, 2012 | Feature, Ideas from Current Trends
Take a look around home decor, fashion, hairstyles, and even wedding wear and decorations and you’ll see feathers. Peacocks have been a favorite ornamental motif for millennia, but currently a variety of feathers are being put into vases and wreaths. The motif...
