by Debbie Hodge | Jun 13, 2012 | Embellishments, Feature, Ideas for Page Elements, Ideas from Current Trends
The making of banners is an ancient craft. Banners are mentioned in the Old Testament. They were used to keep order among those traveling to the promised land with Moses. Heraldic banners were used in Medieval Times for personal identification. Sashimono banners were...
by Debbie Hodge | Jun 8, 2012 | About Memory Keeping, Design Principles, Feature
disclaimer re: layout design principles and scrapbooking Learning layout design principles is in no way required for making scrapbook pages. Memory keepers go about preserving photos, stories, and details in a variety of ways, and that act of preserving is what is...
by Amy Kingsford | Jun 7, 2012 | Feature, Quotes and Word Art
Use father quotes and printable word art on your paper or digital scrapbook layouts and projects — for titlework, embellishing, and even journaling. Any man can be a father but it takes someone special to be a dad. -Author Unknown My father didn’t tell me...
by Debbie Hodge | Jun 5, 2012 | About Memory Keeping, Feature, Get Started
If you love scrapbooking, personal blogging, memoir, art journaling, keeping photo albums–or any form of memory keeping, please check out our early episodes of “This Memory Keeper’s Life,” a new scrapbooking podcast. And then tell us what you...
by Debbie Hodge | Jun 4, 2012 | Digital / Photoshop Techniques for Scrapbooking, Feature, Ideas via Product & Technique, Jana Morton
layout by Jana Morton This is the first post in a series that shows you a digital scrapbook page and connects the dots between the elements on the page and the Photoshop techniques that were used to create them. Jana Morton’s “Sisters” is a page that...
by Debbie Hodge | Jun 4, 2012 | Copic Markers, Feature, News
By Michelle Houghton How do alcohol markers stand up in a direct head-to-head comparison? I set out on a mission to answer that question not only for you but for myself. In my last article I looked at Spectrum Noir markers. I have another marker brand to examine for...
by Debbie Hodge | Jun 1, 2012 | Feature, News
Please join us in welcoming the members of the first Get It Scrapped Creative Team to our online family. Click here for bios and links. This group of talented women come from all over the world and use a variety of formats, tools, mediums and approaches for telling...
by Debbie Hodge | Jun 1, 2012 | 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.” I...
by Debbie Hodge | May 31, 2012 | Design Principles, Feature, Ideas Spurred by Design
by Debbie Hodge Scrapbook pages hold a lot of elements: photos, journaling, title, embellishments, papers, even memorabilia. When you’re deciding how to arrange the parts of your page, strive to GROUND them, to be sure they are purposefully placed. What does...
by Debbie Hodge | May 31, 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...
