by Debbie Hodge | Jul 11, 2012 | Feature, Finding and Using Inspiration
Magazine covers and advertisements are designed to not only catch the viewer’s eye but to pull them in and guide them to view the smaller details. They are, thus, great models for laying out your scrapbook pages. Ways to use the inspiration piece include: to...
by Debbie Hodge | Jul 10, 2012 | Composition, Embellishments, Feature, Ideas Spurred by Design
Using a grid structure for organizing your photos, title, journaling and embellishments is a great way to organize all of the elements on a page. Consider, though, using a grid to organize just a section of a page that does not have an overall grid foundation. Debbie...
by Debbie Hodge | Jul 9, 2012 | Feature, Finding and Using Inspiration
by Tami Taylor There are so many sources of inspiration in our lives it’s hard to sometimes find what really works for you, personally. We will dig into this very topic this August at Masterful Scrapbook Design. To prepare for my contribution to the seminar,...
by Debbie Hodge | Jul 6, 2012 | Feature, One Month At A Time
by Tami Taylor On the 1st Friday of 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.”...
by Debbie Hodge | Jul 4, 2012 | Events, Feature, Ideas for Page Topics, Scrapbook Page Subjects
Scrapbooking a wedding? 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 wedding fonts in our Quickstart Series....
by Debbie Hodge | Jul 4, 2012 | Digital / Photoshop Techniques for Scrapbooking, Feature
In hands-on artistic works, a mask is a protective shield that keeps an area from being affected by an appplied medium. For digital creations, that “shield” can end up being the very shape to which a medium is applied. What’s more that medium can be...
by Debbie Hodge | Jul 3, 2012 | Digital / Photoshop Techniques for Scrapbooking, Feature, Ideas via Product & Technique, Paper Techniques for Scrapbooking
If you love using paints, inks, mists, modeling clay or other messy mediums, then stencils and masks are the tools for you. Understand the difference between the two and check out ideas for using each of these individually or even in combination. Stencil: A stencil is...
by Debbie Hodge | Jul 2, 2012 | Copic Markers, Feature
by Michelle Houghton This is the third installment of my comparison of alcohol markers. In the first article I gave you the facts, comparing 4 brands of markers and examining Spectrum Noir markers more closely. In the second article I took a closer look at Letraset...
by Debbie Hodge | Jun 29, 2012 | Composition, Feature, Ideas Spurred by Design
Using a grid structure for organizing your photos, title, journaling and embellishments is a great way to start a page. That very same grid that holds your elements on one page, though, can become the backdrop for your elements on another page. Lynnette Penacho says,...
by Debbie Hodge | Jun 29, 2012 | News
After July 4, we will no longer sell single past issues of Masterful Scrapbook Design – until then we’ve got a few ways for you to save money. Single issues are not available after July 4th Purchase single issues for $24/each through July 4th. Click here...
