by Debbie Hodge | Apr 12, 2012 | Composition, Finding and Using Inspiration, Lift These Ideas, Photos, Picture Your Story
Betsy Sammarco scrapbooked two of her favorite photos on “Cherry Blossoms.” One photo is enlarged and the other is repeated many times — with one instance of it framed. (Check out 4 Ways to Use Repeated Photos for more scrapbook page ideas.)...
by Debbie Hodge | Mar 13, 2012 | Composition, Ideas Spurred by Design, Photos, Picture Your Story
by Debbie Hodge “Straight-on” photos Close to 100 percent of my scrapbook pages have photos placed like these on Spring Break: “straight-on.” The sides of the photos run parallel to the canvas sides (and the tops and bottoms run parallel to...
by Debbie Hodge | Feb 27, 2012 | Ideas for Page Topics, Moments, Photos, Picture Your Story
by Debbie Hodge When you’re scrapbooking photos of people, you’ve got an opportunity to document and show more than is immediately obvious. The things the people in your photos are doing and how they’re doing them, what they say and how they say it, and even the items...
by Debbie Hodge | Jan 31, 2012 | Design Your Story, Journaling, Photos, Picture Your Story
by Debbie Hodge What do you do when you want to get lots of photos onto your single-page layout AND you’ve got a good bit of journaling to add? Here are 4 ideas for pulling it off –even when you think there isn’t any room. 1. Use longer text lines...
by Debbie Hodge | Jan 18, 2012 | Events, Photos, Picture Your Story, Scrapbook Page Subjects
Parties come in many flavors: big, small, birthday, holiday, theme, family, friend, community, planned, for a reason or just because. Making party layouts that convey the spirit of the party, as well as who was there and what went on is immensely rewarding. You get a...
by Debbie Hodge | Jan 2, 2012 | Composition, Digital / Photoshop Techniques for Scrapbooking, Ideas for Page Elements, Jana Morton, Photos, Picture Your Story
by Jana Morton As the mother of three, I feel like I am constantly repeating myself. I repeat myself because I want to strengthen my message in hopes that one day the life lessons that I am trying to convey will sink in. Just like in parenting, repetition is a...
