by Debbie Hodge | Oct 22, 2014 | Composition, Design Your Story
Some photos and scrapbook page stories are all about place. When setting is key to your story, extend it from the photos out onto the canvas with these scrapbooking ideas. And remember: the basic building blocks of written story–character, plot, and...
by Debbie Hodge | Oct 14, 2014 | Canvas, Composition
Do you ever make scrapbook page backgrounds ahead of time without know what you’ll be scrapbooking? Perhaps you make misted and painted backgrounds. Maybe you block out patterned paper bases. Or you could even use a sketch and create a base with spots for photos...
by Debbie Hodge | Sep 10, 2014 | Composition, DoubleUp, Feature
When your story is best told with lots of photos, you need to make a two-page scrapbook layout. Consider mixing a grid design on one half of the page with a design you typically use your for your one-pagers on the facing page to tell your story efficiently. [hr]...
by Debbie Hodge | Sep 9, 2014 | Composition, Digital / Photoshop Techniques for Scrapbooking, Ideas Spurred by Design, Paper Techniques for Scrapbooking
Cutouts are trendy, and that negative space they make provides a perfect home for eye-catching elements. What can you do within that negative space created by a cutout? Here are a few ideas for you ranging from using that space to house basic scrapbook page elements...
by Debbie Hodge | Aug 27, 2014 | Composition, Photos
The full-width and full-height photo sizes is a great format for scrapbook page storytelling. The popularity of “Pocket Page” and “Project Life” scrapbooking has gotten scrapbookers working certain photo sizes over and over. First it was the...
by Debbie Hodge | Aug 5, 2014 | Composition, Sketches and Layered Templates
Using scrapbook page templates and sketches is a great way to get pages made. The Get It Scrapped membership now includes an always-growing library of 70+ sketches and layered templates. An all-access pass gets you all of them. A sketch/template doesn’t have to...
