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 23, 2014 | Color, Ideas from Current Trends
Bold rainbows are so 2013. Pastel rainbows are the trendy color combo today, and we’ve got scrapbook page ideas for using this color scheme on your layouts. Stamping, misting, copics, and Photoshop are all great tools for scrapbook page storytelling with pastel...
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 19, 2014 | Color, Ideas via Product & Technique, Patterned Paper
If you’re a patterned paper lover, surely you’ve got a stash of papers calling to you. Challenge yourself to shake up your scrapbooking page storytelling process by starting with a patterned paper and color before your photos or story. It will give you a...
