by Debbie Hodge | Jan 20, 2012 | Theme Quickstarts
Making a winter page? Use these “quickstarts” to get ideas for your page motifs, embellishments, wordart, titles, and fonts. Hallmark Images of Winter | Winter Sayings and Phrases | Fonts for Winter Pages This series provides “starter” lists for...
by Debbie Hodge | Jan 18, 2012 | Events, Photos, Picture Your Story, Scrapbook Page Subjects
Parties come in many flavors: big, small, birthday, holiday, theme, family, friend, community, planned, for a reason or just because. Making party layouts that convey the spirit of the party, as well as who was there and what went on is immensely rewarding. You get a...
by Debbie Hodge | Jan 17, 2012 | Design Elements, Design Principles
Texture refers to the surface characteristics of a material. Is it rough or smooth? Plush or gritty? Dimension (or depth) refers to the measurable extent to which something lifts off the page. Real texture and dimension (as well as the illusion of texture and...
by Debbie Hodge | Jan 16, 2012 | 5 Year Journal
by Tami Taylor (Click here to see all 12 months.) What’s a 5 year Journal? That was my question when I first heard of it. (Ok, my first question was “five years??” Stick with me, though, it’s relatively painless. I promise.) A five year...
by Debbie Hodge | Jan 13, 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. Consider that the blocks on any of...
by Debbie Hodge | Jan 11, 2012 | Titles
Find ideas and how-tos for coming up with and rendering titles on your digital and paper scrapbook pages. 14 Ideas for Scrapbook Page Titles (Jennifer Wilson / Simple Scrapper) 14 layouts that will get you out of a scrapbook titling rut. Terrific Titles for Scrapbook...
by Debbie Hodge | Jan 10, 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. One of the first scrapbooking choices you’ll make...
by Debbie Hodge | Jan 9, 2012 | One Month At A Time
by Tami Taylor Welcome to a third year of scrapbooking your photos “One Month at a Time” at Get It Scrapped. I’m excited to put a new twist on this project in 2012. The first year our “by the numbers” sheet focused on holidays and...
by Debbie Hodge | Jan 6, 2012 | Copic Markers
by Michelle Houghton Hi everyone! I’ve been working on my new class, Creations by Hand, which starts next week and coming up with lots of fun ideas for combining Copic marker techniques, doodling, and handlettering on scrapbook pages, cards, and all kinds of...
by Debbie Hodge | Jan 2, 2012 | Composition, Digital / Photoshop Techniques for Scrapbooking, Ideas for Page Elements, Jana Morton, Photos, Picture Your Story
by Jana Morton As the mother of three, I feel like I am constantly repeating myself. I repeat myself because I want to strengthen my message in hopes that one day the life lessons that I am trying to convey will sink in. Just like in parenting, repetition is a...
