by Debbie Hodge | Feb 20, 2012 | Design Elements, Design Principles, Design Your Story, Journaling
by Debbie Hodge Texture is tactile. When you add texture and dimension to your scrapbook page, you engage the viewer’s sense of touch — another sense in addition to sight. As a result you draw your viewer in on another level. It’s an obvious design...
by Debbie Hodge | Feb 8, 2012 | Scrapbook Page Elements
by Debbie Hodge A successful scrapbook page captures the viewer’s attention, controls the eye’s movement, conveys information, and evokes emotion. Embellishments are one of the tools you have for achieving these ends. Just as every sentence in a story should either...
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 25, 2012 | Get Started, Titles
by Debbie Hodge A successful scrapbook page captures the viewer’s attention, controls the eye’s movement, conveys information, and evokes emotion. The title is one of the tools you have for achieving these ends. Just as every sentence in a story should either deepen...
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 11, 2012 | Titles
Find ideas and how-tos for coming up with and rendering titles on your digital and paper scrapbook pages. 14 Ideas for Scrapbook Page Titles (Jennifer Wilson / Simple Scrapper) 14 layouts that will get you out of a scrapbook titling rut. Terrific Titles for Scrapbook...
