by Amy Kingsford | May 10, 2016 | Composition, Design Your Story
Start your page with an idea, or notion, or message. A story or an emotion. Something! Then resolve to convey this intention with all of your design and element choices. We’re pretty sure the scrapbook page storytelling will come more easily and you’ll be...
by Amy Kingsford | Feb 17, 2016 | Composition, Design Principles
The focal point is the center of a design. This doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s the vertical and/ or horizontal center (although it could be) but, rather, that it is the most important part (or parts) of a piece. One effective approach to creating a...
by Debbie Hodge | Dec 15, 2015 | Composition, Feature
The latest Get It Scrapped Membership class–Scrapbook Coach #21–includes four video lessons walking students through the making of four “top heavy” designs. A “top heavy” design uses elements with substantial visual weight at the...
by Debbie Hodge | Dec 1, 2015 | Composition, Feature, Photos
For many of us, photos are the reason to scrapbook and multi-photo scrapbook pages let us pack in lots of memories. While we’ve heard (and even sometimes agree) that one or two photos with strong journaling are as powerful as a dozen photos–still, there...
by Debbie Hodge | Nov 4, 2015 | Composition, Digital / Photoshop Techniques for Scrapbooking, Patterned Paper
This lesson from Lynnette Penacho first appeared as a part of the membership class “Canvas.” For that class and over 60 more, join us. by Lynnette Penacho When it comes to building the foundations of my digital scrapbooking layouts, I’m a HUGE fan of shapes. My...
by Debbie Hodge | Oct 14, 2015 | Composition, Feature, Scrapbook Faster
Here at Get It Scrapped, we’ve always taught that using go-to page foundations to start a scrapbook page speeds the process while giving you the limits that can actually boost creativity. Read on to see the go-to compositions our creative team uses to speed...
