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 | Mar 8, 2012 | Design Principles, Embellishments
by Debbie Hodge Embellishments on a scrapbook page are not just great for adding interest, charm, and meaning. They are also important tools for creating a well designed page. The next time you’re choosing and placing your embellishments be sure that, in...
by Debbie Hodge | Mar 7, 2012 | Design Principles, Design Your Story, Journaling
by Debbie Hodge Alignment refers to how text is arranged into blocks or columns with hard or soft edges. There are four basic approaches to alignment: 1) Left, 2) Right, 3) Centered, 4) Justified. Check them out below — as well as a fifth option. Flush Left...
by Debbie Hodge | Feb 28, 2012 | Canvas, Get Started
by Debbie Hodge The canvas is the piece of paper (or digital background) upon which you build your page. It’s what holds all of your elements, and it defines the space within in which you’re working. The canvas shape and size is one of the choices you have to make,...
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 | Feb 22, 2012 | Journaling, Scrapbook Page Elements
by Debbie Hodge I love scrapbooking. I love having scrapbook pages made. And sometimes, in my rush to try a new look or use a new product or just get those new photos on the page, I neglect journaling. Yep. Even though I’ve written countless articles and lessons...
