by Debbie Hodge | May 6, 2014 | Color, Ideas from Current Trends
Use a scrapbook page color scheme of black and gold and you’ve got instant drama–a drama that’s well suited to some of the scrapbook page storytelling you do. Following on the movie remake of The Great Gatsby, stars on the award carpets showed off...
by Debbie Hodge | Apr 22, 2014 | Composition, Ideas Spurred by Design
The “shelf” is a scrapbook design idea scrapbookers turn to again and again for making scrapbook pages, and we’ve shown you ideas for the shelf to make a one-page layout. Here, we’ve got scrapbooking ideas for using the “shelf” foundation on...
by Debbie Hodge | Apr 9, 2014 | Color, Ideas from Current Trends
Complementary colors purple and yellow are a trendy scrapbooking color combination this year with Pantone’s color of the year pick of radiant orchid. With variations in hue and saturation this combo can yield a variety of looks. We’ve collected inspiration...
by Amy Kingsford | Mar 31, 2014 | Composition
We frequently share ideas for arranging the elements on your scrapbook pages for more efficient layout design. Here’s a closer look at five recent articles on this topic. Follow the links below to see the articles as well as our creative team members’...
by Debbie Hodge | Mar 19, 2014 | Design Principles, Ideas Spurred by Design, Photos
Part of scrapbook page storytelling is putting things together so that the viewer knows where to start looking and then where to look next and next. There are several tools for creating flow on the scrapbook page. One technique is to understand that the viewer’s...
by Debbie Hodge | Mar 17, 2014 | Ideas via Product & Technique, Patterned Paper
Printed transparencies offer the opportunity to layer image on image — to see through one pattern or image to another. Our team has scrapbooking ideas for using premade transparencies and for making your own (both digital and paper). [hr] hide...