by Amy Kingsford | Jul 19, 2016 | Design Your Story, Ideas for Page Topics
Known phrases are often metaphors that can represent your story: from “time flies” to “back in the saddle.” Our creative team uses not only the words in one of these metaphorical statements, they also visually illustrate this metaphor of this...
by Amy Kingsford | May 10, 2016 | Composition, Design Your Story
Start your page with an idea, or notion, or message. A story or an emotion. Something! Then resolve to convey this intention with all of your design and element choices. We’re pretty sure the scrapbook page storytelling will come more easily and you’ll be...
by Amy Kingsford | Apr 12, 2016 | Design Your Story, Ideas for Page Elements
Infographics combine images and figures and limited text to efficiently convey information- -and even tell stories–in today’s informationpacked world. We’ve shared many graphic approaches to visual storytelling here–like Venn diagrams, pie charts,...
by Amy Kingsford | Mar 22, 2016 | Design Your Story, Feature
Is it possible to do more than SEE and TOUCH a scrap – book page? Could your viewer hear it, too? And could they feel more than the photos on the page? Could they have a sense of how the wind in the photos or the hug described in the journaling feels? When you...
by Amy Kingsford | Mar 8, 2016 | Design Your Story
To get the sense of an epic story being told on your scrapbook page, borrow literary devices. One thing that gives a story tension and interest is a sense of time passing, of things never being the same once a moment is passed. We challenged our team to create a sense...
by Debbie Hodge | Feb 10, 2016 | Design Your Story, Ideas via Product & Technique, Videos
While the expected goal of making a scrapbook page is to get photos presented and stories recorded, there’s lots of creative satisfaction to be had in working with new and trendy scrapbooking product. Product can even be the spur that gets you inspired to make a page....
