by Debbie Hodge | Jun 28, 2010 | Journaling, Scrapbook Page Elements, Write Your Story
Making scrapbook pages about yourself is an awesome thing to give to friends, family AND yourself. Scrap YOUR Story is a series of 11 lessons that are available free in our classroom. “All about me” scrapbook pages are going to require some journaling—some...
by Debbie Hodge | May 27, 2010 | Digital / Photoshop Techniques for Scrapbooking, Ideas for Page Elements, Paper Techniques for Scrapbooking, Titles
by Amy Kingsford Here’s an idea for jazzing up your scrapbook page titles and embellishments. Ransom Alphas are a fun new trend both in paper and digital scrapbooking worlds. Basically a “Ransom Alpha” is an alphabet that is made up of mismatched letters and...
by Debbie Hodge | May 25, 2010 | Photos, Picture Your Story
by Debbie Hodge When you’re cropping photos of people you have several decisions to make that will affect the photo’s presentation on the page. Of course, you could make these decisions when you’re taking the photo–but just in case you didn’t, here are some...
by Debbie Hodge | May 20, 2010 | Journaling, Scrapbook Page Elements, Write Your Story
by Debbie Hodge The “ah-ha!” story form In the “Ah-ha!” story, someone (probably you) comes to a new realization (aka epiphany). This could be a realization about other people or about self. It could be a realization about the past or a new understanding of current...
by Debbie Hodge | May 20, 2010 | Ideas for Page Elements, Titles
by Debbie Hodge Making the connections Discovering a movie title, a line from a song, a well-known phrase, or a lesser-known and eloquent line of poetry that connects your photos to their story is always satisfying. The following are ideas (and even a technique) for...
by Debbie Hodge | May 18, 2010 | Digital / Photoshop Techniques for Scrapbooking, Embellishments, Hybrid Scrapbooking, Paula Gilarde
by Paula Gilarde You don’t even need to have some fancy-schmancy photo editing software to try this digital technique. All you need is word-processing software like Word. I used a dingbat font to create a fun custom embellishment for my page. Dingbat fonts are...