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 | Jun 7, 2016 | Photos, Picture Your Story
Have you heard the storywriting advice: Show, don’t tell? It means that, rather than just coming out with your “big idea” (like, for example, hard work pays off) you need to instead show that actual hard work. Here, we’re showing pages that have photos showing...
by Amy Kingsford | May 18, 2016 | Journaling, Write Your Story
Arranging photos, journaling, titlework and embellishments onto your canvas is one of the primary tasks of making a scrapbook page. That task gets tougher when you’ve got lots of journaling. Check out these six ways to make room for your journaling. [hr] 1. Use...
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 27, 2016 | Feature, Journaling, Titles, Write Your Story
Write scrapbook journaling or titles that capture a subject’s voice for rich and appealing storytelling. In Christy Strickler‘s video version of this Get It Scrapped blog post, we’ll see several scrapbooking ideas for getting voice onto your layouts from our Creative...
by Amy Kingsford | Apr 13, 2016 | Write Your Story
“Let’s see what she says about that!” or “What did he say about it?” How often do you hear or express this exact sentiment? There’s an anticipation and satisfaction in hearing a voice — not so much for how it sounds but for the opinions and attitude it conveys....
