by Debbie Hodge | Mar 9, 2012 | Quotes and Word Art
Use friendship quotes and printable word art on your paper or digital scrapbook layouts and projects — for titlework, embellishing, and even journaling. My friends are my estate. – Emily Dickinson We are advertis’d by our loving friends. – William...
by Debbie Hodge | Mar 8, 2012 | Design Principles, Embellishments
by Debbie Hodge Embellishments on a scrapbook page are not just great for adding interest, charm, and meaning. They are also important tools for creating a well designed page. The next time you’re choosing and placing your embellishments be sure that, in...
by Debbie Hodge | Mar 7, 2012 | Design Principles, Design Your Story, Journaling
by Debbie Hodge Alignment refers to how text is arranged into blocks or columns with hard or soft edges. There are four basic approaches to alignment: 1) Left, 2) Right, 3) Centered, 4) Justified. Check them out below — as well as a fifth option. Flush Left...
by Debbie Hodge | Mar 5, 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 “The World’s Worst Dog” by Lisa Dickinson and see if one or two of them can inspire your next page. 1. Stamp a...
by Debbie Hodge | Mar 2, 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 | Mar 1, 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 | Feb 29, 2012 | Color
by Debbie Hodge A split-complementary color scheme uses a base color and then the two colors on either side of its complement (i.e., the color across from it on the color wheel). With this scheme your page will have contrast but with more nuance and less tension than...
by Debbie Hodge | Feb 28, 2012 | Canvas, Get Started
by Debbie Hodge The canvas is the piece of paper (or digital background) upon which you build your page. It’s what holds all of your elements, and it defines the space within in which you’re working. The canvas shape and size is one of the choices you have to make,...
by Debbie Hodge | Feb 27, 2012 | Ideas for Page Topics, Moments, Photos, Picture Your Story
by Debbie Hodge When you’re scrapbooking photos of people, you’ve got an opportunity to document and show more than is immediately obvious. The things the people in your photos are doing and how they’re doing them, what they say and how they say it, and even the items...
by Debbie Hodge | Feb 24, 2012 | Quotes and Word Art
Use honesty quotes and printable word art on your paper or digital scrapbook layouts and projects — for titlework, embellishing, and even journaling. No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar. – Abraham Lincoln I hope I shall possess...
