by Debbie Hodge | May 7, 2014 | Ideas from Current Trends, Photos
It’s become easy to alter your photos with photo filters either in Photoshop or right on your phone with editing apps, and this is a great scrapbook page storytelling tool. You can set mood and reinforce story with your treatment. Filters that add a vintage...
by Debbie Hodge | Apr 16, 2014 | Design Your Story, Motif
“Retro tech” motifs, images of the technologies of our past, make great complements to scrapbook page storytelling, both for the nostalgic feelings they trigger and for their representation of story. Because technology changes so rapidly, items now...
by Debbie Hodge | Apr 4, 2014 | Ideas for Page Elements, Photos
Photos are a key part of most scrapbook layouts, and the selection and cropping of them is an early step in the making of a scrapbook page. If you’re looking for new looks, consider photo layering. The Photo Play class in the Get It Scrapped membership got us...
by Debbie Hodge | Apr 1, 2014 | Design Your Story, Ideas from Current Trends, Ideas via Product & Technique, Titles
A recent trend in print, fashion, and decor is to use ink and brushstrokes to create bold typography that’s a prominent part of a design. For your scrapbook page storytelling you can use it to draw attention, tell your story, and–as Amy Kingsford...
by Debbie Hodge | Mar 26, 2014 | Design Your Story, Ideas from Current Trends, Journaling
Scrapbook page storytelling that’s done with a mix of both the obvious and the hinted-at engages the viewer or reader at a deeper level. On these pages we have scrapbooking ideas for supporting the clearly explained parts of a story with cut-paper collage. ...
by Debbie Hodge | Mar 19, 2014 | Design Principles, Ideas Spurred by Design, Photos
Part of scrapbook page storytelling is putting things together so that the viewer knows where to start looking and then where to look next and next. There are several tools for creating flow on the scrapbook page. One technique is to understand that the viewer’s...
