by Debbie Hodge | Aug 13, 2013 | Embellishments, Feature, Ideas from Current Trends
Use a monogram for embellishing scrapbook pages and you’ll be on-trend. See the scrapbooking ideas below, and then get creative with techniques and materials to make your own one-of-a-kind embellishment. [threecol_two] Monograms appeared on coins as early as 350...
by Debbie Hodge | Jun 5, 2013 | Embellishments, Feature, Ideas via Product & Technique
by Debbie Hodge One of the 4 approaches we recommend for using up your stash is to “find strength in numbers.” You can combine a whole of elements when you unify around something like color or theme or motif. See how the Creative Team collected and found...
by Debbie Hodge | Apr 4, 2013 | Composition, Embellishments, Feature
When you set up a visual situation with tension, the viewer feels like something isn’t quite right, that something might happen they don’t want to miss. And so they dive into your piece and stay! One way to add tension to scrapbook pages is to “break...
by Debbie Hodge | Feb 28, 2013 | Embellishments, Feature, Ideas for Page Elements
by Debbie Hodge Knowing what you’re good at and what you like makes getting scrapbook pages made easier. Know what your masteries and aesthetic preferences are and work them. See how our team and teachers describe their “go-to” embellishment...
by Debbie Hodge | Nov 15, 2012 | Embellishments, Feature, Ideas from Current Trends, Titles
Blocked arrangements of related words or quotations rendered in multiple fonts are a trendy look. Called “subway art” for its relationship to typographic art created on subway walls, this trend is fueled by the ready availability of fonts and printing...
by Debbie Hodge | Oct 8, 2012 | Embellishments, Feature, Ideas for Page Elements
by Debbie Hodge Making embellishment clusters is a great way to have fun with product, incorporate meaningful images, add repetitions and interest to the page and draw the viewer’s eye to the focal point. For some of us, clustering comes easily while others of...
