by Debbie Hodge | Aug 28, 2012 | Feature, Ideas via Product & Technique, Patterned Paper
Floral prints can range from pretty and delicate to big and bold. Each has its own personality. Floral prints are, thus, a great tool for any visual storyteller. You’ll find patterned papers for scrapbooking in four general types. These same four patterns are...
by Debbie Hodge | Aug 27, 2012 | DoubleUp, Feature, Sketches and Layered Templates
See how Terry Billman and Michelle Houghton used a one-page sketch/template from our Bundle #82 on their two-page layouts. Repeat the cluster of smaller photos on the 2nd page Terry Billman used the arrangement of the photos in the sketch/template pretty much as-is on...
by Debbie Hodge | Aug 24, 2012 | Design Principles, Feature, Ideas Spurred by Design
A successful scrapbook page captures the viewer’s attention, controls the eye’s movement, conveys information, and evokes emotion. That first task–capturing the eye’s attention–is the work of making a focal point. Photos are most often the focal points on scrapbook...
by Debbie Hodge | Aug 22, 2012 | Color, Feature
About Yellow | Yellow Dominating | Yellow Drawing the Eye | Yellow Guiding the Eye | Yellow Accenting About the Color Yellow Color conveys meanings or evokes feelings in three chief ways. See the resulting associations with yellow for each trigger. 1....
by Debbie Hodge | Aug 20, 2012 | Composition, Design Principles, Digital / Photoshop Techniques for Scrapbooking, Feature, Ideas Spurred by Design, Time Lapse Video Tutorials, Videos
by Debbie Hodge See the making of this page by Debbie Hodge from start to finish in a video tutorial that includes photo edits, finding a magazine layout to guide element placement and putting everything together in a way that merges a graphic look with a love of...
by Debbie Hodge | Aug 16, 2012 | By # of Photos, Composition, Feature, Photos, Picture Your Story
When you’re working with three photos there are some basic choices you make again and again: same size or create emphasis with a larger photo? same orientation? and, thus, stacked or side-by-side? all different sizes and orientations? Here are 5 approaches that...
