by Debbie Hodge | Jul 25, 2012 | By # of Photos, Composition, Feature, Photos, Picture Your Story
When you’re making a page with two photos, your photo sizes and crops as well as the orientation of your photos will impact how your arrange elements on the canvas. See how the pages below work with a variety of cropping and orientation choices. See, also, how...
by Debbie Hodge | Jul 23, 2012 | Composition, Feature, 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 “Crazy Circular Car Conversation No 676 ” by Celeste Smith and see if one or two of them can inspire your next page. This is just one of...
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 | 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 20, 2012 | Composition, Feature, Ideas Spurred by Design
[twocol_one] [/twocol_one] [twocol_one_last] There are several layout configurations of combined elements that scrapbookers use again and again when making scrapbook pages (for example, block, cluster, and band). These foundations are used again and again because...
by Debbie Hodge | May 25, 2012 | Composition, Feature
by Debbie Hodge If you love working with an “explosion” of elements and getting an artsy look, the free form cluster is a page foundation that lends itself to this kind of creativity and variation. [twocol_one] [/twocol_one] [twocol_one_last] There are several layout...
