by Debbie Hodge | Apr 7, 2011 | Art Journaling, Composition, Design Principles, DinaWakley
By Dina Wakley I always say that one of the reasons I love art journaling is that there are no rules. Anything goes. You can do what you want. The process of putting paint on the page is more important than the finished outcome. So, why care about composition? I...
by Debbie Hodge | Jan 25, 2011 | Composition, Get Started
by Debbie Hodge Here’s a quick and easy way to get a scrapbook page started, improved, and then finally tweaked with small details. It usually takes me 2.5-3 hours to make a page – no matter whether it’s paper or digital. In a quest to start speeding things up, I’ve...
by Debbie Hodge | Dec 27, 2010 | Composition
by Debbie Hodge Sometimes I like a little help getting ideas when I start my scrapbook pages. I don’t always want to use a sketch or a template because I want to play with design myself — and, yet, I’d like a starting place. The following are three...
by Debbie Hodge | Dec 21, 2010 | Composition
by Debbie Hodge “Active white space is carefully considered emptiness.” – Alex White, The Elements of Graphic Design Take a look at three versions of the same scrapbook page as more and more considered white space is incorporated. White space on scrapbook pages...
by Debbie Hodge | Dec 20, 2010 | Composition
by Debbie Hodge When I speak of your page’s foundation, I’m referring either to some kind of underlying grid structure, or the first one or two layers you put onto the page and then build from. That first element (or layer) is what connects the other elements to the...
by Debbie Hodge | Nov 9, 2010 | Composition
by Debbie Hodge Let’s “study” pages by Celeste Smith, Kayleigh Wiles, and Lisa Dickinson In the audio of the November Masterful Scrapbook Design (MSD) seminar on “Details” I suggested studying pages that you like in order to understand how you might...
