by Debbie Hodge | May 18, 2010 | Digital / Photoshop Techniques for Scrapbooking, Embellishments, Hybrid Scrapbooking, Paula Gilarde
by Paula Gilarde You don’t even need to have some fancy-schmancy photo editing software to try this digital technique. All you need is word-processing software like Word. I used a dingbat font to create a fun custom embellishment for my page. Dingbat fonts are...
by Debbie Hodge | Mar 31, 2010 | Embellishments, Hybrid Scrapbooking, Ideas for Page Elements, Paula Gilarde
by Paula Gilarde Don’t have the right embellishment for your page? Use Photoshop (or even Word if you’re handy with its drawing features) to create shapes, then add color and text for a custom embellishment you can print, trim, and mount on your paper...
by Debbie Hodge | Feb 26, 2010 | Design Principles, Embellishments
Embellishments can be used with other page elements to guide the viewer’s eye through the page. We all routinely scan our surroundings – even when we focus on a spot, we eventually change our field of vision. As we make this change, we do a quick scan of the...
by Debbie Hodge | Feb 18, 2010 | Design Principles, Embellishments
by Debbie Hodge Think about racing stripes on a car, earrings on a woman, roses on china. Each of these are embellishments. Wikipedia defines an embellishment as something that enhances appearance without having any functional purpose. I say “not so” when it comes to...
