by Debbie Hodge | Mar 12, 2010 | Digital / Photoshop Techniques for Scrapbooking, Photos, Picture Your Story
by Amy Kingsford As part of Get It Scrapped’s second dose of the Get It Blogged Challenge, I am blogging weekly “makeover” challenges. For more info about playing along, visit the Get Blogging Forum at Get It Scrapped! This week, we are making over...
by Debbie Hodge | Mar 6, 2010 | Journaling, Write Your Story
by Debbie Hodge Even when your scrapbook page subject is something as lofty as joy or disappointment or life passions, the best journaling will include an attention to specifics and detail rather than the use of words like “joy,” or...
by Debbie Hodge | Mar 5, 2010 | Journaling, Scrapbook Page Elements, Write Your Story
. . . read on to see how to incorporate dialogue into your scrapbook page journaling. by Debbie Hodge Much of the journaling we do on our scrapbook pages takes the form of “narrative.” Narrative is when you recount what happened from your point of view. Once in a...
by Debbie Hodge | Mar 2, 2010 | Composition, Get Started, Photos
by Debbie Hodge Most of my 4×6 photos straight out of the envelope can be—and even need to be–cropped. To get clean designs that go together quickly, I always look for uniform cropping opportunities. Crop for Columns: “Women Who Love Wool too...
by Debbie Hodge | Feb 28, 2010 | Scrapbook Page Elements
How to select and position photos for appealing two-page scrapbook layouts. by Debbie Hodge My family loves looking at scrapbook pages that tell the stories of our outings and get-togethers. We pour over layouts showing trips to the beach, museum visits and holiday...
by Debbie Hodge | Feb 26, 2010 | Design Principles, Embellishments
Embellishments can be used with other page elements to guide the viewer’s eye through the page. We all routinely scan our surroundings – even when we focus on a spot, we eventually change our field of vision. As we make this change, we do a quick scan of the...
