by Amy Kingsford | Feb 17, 2014 | Design Your Story, Journaling, Picture Your Story, Write Your Story
We frequently share scrapbooking ideas for storytelling at Get It Scrapped. Here’s a closer look at six recent storytelling articles. Follow the links below to team members’ personal blogs and youtube channels where you can see extended technique,...
by Debbie Hodge | Jan 16, 2014 | Design Your Story, Patterned Paper
There are so many ways to create striped patterns by varying stripe width, regularity of pattern, directionality, and color. These variations make it a print pattern that’s easy to use to set tone and mood. stretching from earth to heaven Sue Althouse says...
by Debbie Hodge | Jan 7, 2014 | Design Your Story, Journaling, Titles
A successful scrapbook page does four things. It: captures the viewer’s attention, controls the eye’s movement, conveys information, and evokes emotion. The traditional way to do this is with a balanced combination of text, photos, color and motif. Here’s a way...
by Debbie Hodge | Dec 10, 2013 | Composition, Design Elements, Design Your Story
No matter how you turn it, a circle shape stays the same. There’s a perfection in this shape. And it presents challenges. The space outside of the circle has an odd shape that’s not as easy to work with, especially when you’re combining circles....
by Debbie Hodge | Sep 4, 2013 | Design Your Story, Masterful Scrapbook Design, Write Your Story
by Debbie Hodge I originally became interested in the idea of setting a mental clock ticking (to create tension) when I studied fiction writing. As a scrapbooker, I thought a lot about getting tension into the written component of my storytelling–but not so much...
by Debbie Hodge | May 7, 2013 | Composition, Design Your Story, Feature, Journaling
by Debbie Hodge The text of your journaling has a shape. It also takes on visual weight and can even set a mood. When you’re deciding how and where to place your scrapbook page journaling consider: how you might place and shape your journaling to enhance the...
