by Debbie Hodge | Jul 13, 2012 | Color, Feature, Ideas Spurred by Design
About Purple | Purple Dominating | Purple Drawing the Eye | Purple Guiding the Eye | Purple Accenting About the Color Purple Color conveys meanings or evokes feelings in three chief ways. See the resulting associations with purple for each trigger. 1....
by Debbie Hodge | Jul 10, 2012 | Composition, Embellishments, Feature, Ideas Spurred by Design
Using a grid structure for organizing your photos, title, journaling and embellishments is a great way to organize all of the elements on a page. Consider, though, using a grid to organize just a section of a page that does not have an overall grid foundation. Debbie...
by Debbie Hodge | Jun 29, 2012 | Composition, Feature, Ideas Spurred by Design
Using a grid structure for organizing your photos, title, journaling and embellishments is a great way to start a page. That very same grid that holds your elements on one page, though, can become the backdrop for your elements on another page. Lynnette Penacho says,...
by Debbie Hodge | Jun 28, 2012 | Design Principles, Feature, Ideas Spurred by Design
Repoussoir is a figure or object in the extreme foreground of a composition. It’s used to create contrast and to increase a sense of depth. See how this art technique inspired our creative team and consider how you can use it on your next scrapbook or art...
by Debbie Hodge | Jun 20, 2012 | Composition, Feature, Ideas Spurred by Design
[twocol_one] [/twocol_one] [twocol_one_last] There are several layout configurations of combined elements that scrapbookers use again and again when making scrapbook pages (for example, block, cluster, and band). These foundations are used again and again because...
by Debbie Hodge | May 31, 2012 | Design Principles, Feature, Ideas Spurred by Design
by Debbie Hodge Scrapbook pages hold a lot of elements: photos, journaling, title, embellishments, papers, even memorabilia. When you’re deciding how to arrange the parts of your page, strive to GROUND them, to be sure they are purposefully placed. What does...
