by Debbie Hodge | Apr 1, 2015 | Photos, Picture Your Story
by Celeste Smith This lesson originally appeared in the Get It Scrapped Membership class Telling Stories. Click here to get all the lessons on this topic with an all access pass. We all have stories we want to tell: stories from our childhood, stories of places...
by Debbie Hodge | Mar 24, 2015 | Ideas from Current Trends, Picture Your Story
Incorporating nods to current trends in your scrapbook page storytelling is a great way to incorporate “the times” into your memory keeping. Celebrity happenings and fads spread faster than ever in our socially-connected lives now. Such nods or inside...
by Amy Kingsford | Mar 9, 2015 | Ideas via Product & Technique, Motif, Picture Your Story, Videos
In “flat geometric” works, the designs are rendered with geometric shapes on flat surfaces in a way that conveys depth and dimension. Color, value, and shape all combine to create the illusion of dimension. This trend is popular now in illustration, home decor, and...
by Debbie Hodge | Mar 2, 2015 | Motif, Picture Your Story, Videos
The family tree motif has been used to represent lineage since the biblical Book of Isaiah. Today this motif endures both for practical and decorative use. Below see a video version of a Get It Scrapped blog post filled with ideas for using the family tree motif on...
by Debbie Hodge | Jan 27, 2015 | Composition, Embellishments, Feature, Photos, Picture Your Story
Scrapbooker Ashley Calder says, “I scrapbook to recall and document moments, the little things that might normally be forgotten over time. Because it’s moments I want to remember, most often a single photo is enough to record that moment.” “Single...
by Debbie Hodge | Nov 11, 2014 | Motif, Picture Your Story
The family tree motif has been used to represent lineage since the biblical Book of Isaiah used it to detail Christ’s ancestors originating from Jesse of Bethlehem. Visual depictions of this Tree of Jesse can be seen rendered on stained windows, carvings, and...
