by Amy Kingsford | Feb 6, 2018 | Design Elements, Feature, Finding and Using Inspiration, Ideas Spurred by Design
Line is a fundamental element of visual design. Lines can be straight, curved, thick, thin, vertical, horizontal, diagonal, solid or broken. The rendering of a line can imply a mood or tone. Soft and curving lines signal tranquility. Jagged diagonals evoke a more...
by Amy Kingsford | Jan 30, 2018 | Composition, Design Elements, Feature, Finding and Using Inspiration, Ideas Spurred by Design
Your scrapbook page canvas establishes a space within which you’ll design–by arranging elements within that space. As you arrange those elements, it’s important to pay attention to the way your foreground elements define the surrounding...
by Amy Kingsford | Oct 31, 2017 | Design Elements, Design Your Story, Feature, Ideas via Product & Technique
The best scrapbook page stories reveal characters, setting, plot and theme. In this piece we’re focusing on character and showing you how to use select tools–color, image and type–to put character front and center on your page. [hr] Nicole Mackin...
by Amy Kingsford | Sep 19, 2017 | Composition, Design Elements, Feature, Ideas Spurred by Design
The Gestalt principle of continuance states that once the human eye starts following a line or path on the page, it will keep going until an object stops it or the line ends. A line can be a literal line (like a drip of ink or a line of stitching), or it can be an...
by Amy Kingsford | Feb 1, 2017 | Design Elements, Feature, Videos
In this video blog by Christy Strickler, we’ll explore how the creative team has played with geometric shapes within their scrapbook pages. The benefit to working with geometrics is that they are versatile: You can combine and manipulate the pieces for different...
by Amy Kingsford | Oct 18, 2016 | Composition, Design Elements, Motif
For some photos and scrapbook page stories the setting is a crucial part of the story. Color shape and texture are all tools you can use to evoke a sense of setting or place. See how the Get It Scrapped Creative Team puts these design element to work in service of...
