by Debbie Hodge | May 3, 2012 | 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 “Tiki” by Kim Watson and see if one or two of them can inspire your next page. This is just one of the pages jam-packed with ideas that...
by Debbie Hodge | May 1, 2012 | Titles
by Debbie Hodge Titles are one of the basic parts of a scrapbook page, and we’ve shared lots of ideas and how-tos for scrapbook page titlework. Recently, we even talked about the work a title can (and should) do if it’s going to be included on the...
by Debbie Hodge | May 1, 2012 | News
Along with many of scrapbookers who have taught and are teaching at Get It Scrapped and Masterful Scrapbook Design, I am contributing to an ebook produced by Simple Scrapper owner, Jennifer Wilson. The book is ‘Everyday Storyteller’ and will be available...
by Debbie Hodge | Apr 30, 2012 | Design Principles, Ideas Spurred by Design
by Debbie Hodge When you incorporate visual flow into your scrapbook page design, you guide the viewer’s eye through it, ensuring they understand what’s important about the story you are telling. The most common types of scrapbook page flow are visual triangle,...
by Debbie Hodge | Apr 27, 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 | Apr 26, 2012 | Color
by Debbie Hodge The work of selecting and combining colors for scrapbook pages is much like the work of of employing design principles: it’s not a straightforward, step-by-step task. Rather, it’s one with points or questions to hold loosely in you mind and cycle...
by Debbie Hodge | Apr 26, 2012 | Design Principles
by Debbie Hodge A focal point is the center of a design. It is the most important part (or parts) of a piece. A scrapbook page benefits from having a focal point because Without some variation in emphasis among the elements on your page, everything takes on the same...
by Debbie Hodge | Apr 25, 2012 | Composition
by Debbie Hodge There are several layout configurations of combined elements that scrapbookers use again and again when making scrapbook pages (for example, blocked, clustered, and shaped). These foundations are used again and again because they work well for housing...
by Amy Kingsford | Apr 20, 2012 | Digital / Photoshop Techniques for Scrapbooking, Ideas via Product & Technique, Titles
By Amy Kingsford Using digital word art as a title for your scrapbook pages can be quick, fun, and, best of all, super easy! Ideas for turning your favorite word art into the perfect title for your next scrapbook page follow. Note: If you’re in need of word art...
by Debbie Hodge | Apr 17, 2012 | Theme Quickstarts
Making an Easter page? Use these “quickstarts” to get ideas for your page motifs, embellishments, wordart, titles, and fonts. Hallmark Images for Easter | Easter Sayings and Phrases | Fonts for Easter Pages This series provides “starter” lists for...
