by Debbie Hodge | Aug 4, 2014 | Digital / Photoshop Techniques for Scrapbooking, Hybrid Scrapbooking, Ideas for Page Elements, Titles
Text is a great tool for telling stories on the scrapbook page–both because of the content you can include and because the typeface used to render it can tell a story. A typeface has a personality. With a change in typeface, you can go from formal to casual,...
by Debbie Hodge | Jul 22, 2014 | Journaling, Write Your Story
Can a life story be distilled to six words? That’s a challenge supposedly posed to Earnest Hemmingway that yielded this “flash fiction:” “For Sale: Baby Shoes. Never Worn.” Smith College launched a project and a website for the sharing of...
by Amy Kingsford | Jul 3, 2014 | Photos, Picture Your Story
We frequently share ideas for getting your scrapbook photos on your scrapbook pages at Get It Scrapped. Here’s a closer look at five photo ideas for your scrapbook pages. Follow the links below to team members’ personal blogs and youtube channels where you...
by Debbie Hodge | Jul 2, 2014 | Feature, Photos, Picture Your Story
Scrapbook page storytelling is often centered around photos of people. Many of the stories of your life, though, can be told with photos of things. Take some time to pull out old treasures, to stage an everyday item in your life or to find that item that represents a...
by Debbie Hodge | Jun 12, 2014 | Embellishments, Ideas from Current Trends, Ideas via Product & Technique
Badges tell a story visually, and that makes them great for embellishing scrapbook pages and scrapbook page storytelling. While a police badge looks a whole lot different from a Girl Scout badge, the two are both small accessories that represent and convey...
by Debbie Hodge | May 27, 2014 | Give Your Photos Stories, Picture Your Story, Write Your Story
It’s never too late to give your photos stories, and here we’ve got ideas for scrapbook page storytelling with those photos of bugs and critters in your archives. The Give Your Photos Stories podcast invites 2 or 3 guests to find a photo in their personal...