Give the Visual Triangle a Rest and Try Diagonal Flow

by Debbie Hodge | Apr 30, 2012 | Design Principles, Ideas Spurred by Design

by Debbie Hodge When you incorporate visual flow into your scrapbook page design, you guide the viewer’s eye through it, ensuring they understand what’s important about the story you are telling. The most common types of scrapbook page flow are visual triangle,...

Ideas for Scrapbook Page Designs with Tilted Photos

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...

7 Ways to Add Texture and Dimension To Your Scrapbook Pages

by Debbie Hodge | Dec 7, 2011 | Design Elements, Design Principles, Ideas Spurred by Design

by Debbie Hodge Texture refers to the surface characteristics of a material: is it rough or smooth, matte or shiny? Dimension refers to extent to which something lifts off the page.  Adding texture and dimension to your scrapbook pages engages another sense in...

Reworking a layout design | When being stuck in a groove is ok

by Debbie Hodge | Sep 13, 2011 | Composition, Ideas Spurred by Design

by Debbie Hodge “In the groove” is a phrase we use when the work’s going well, when it’s moving forward in ways we like. The phrase comes from the concept of running accurately in a channel or a groove. There is, however, another phrase with groove in it. “Stuck in...

6 Ways to Keep a Blocked Scrapbook Page Design Fresh

by Debbie Hodge | Aug 17, 2011 | Composition, Ideas Spurred by Design

by Debbie Hodge This article appears in the August issue of Paper and Pixels. One of my earliest and most frequently-used approaches to putting scrapbook pages together was the “blocked” design. In construction terms, “blocking” refers to the horizontal boards placed...

Real men have pink scrapbook pages | Ideas for scrapbooking boys with pink

by Debbie Hodge | Jun 8, 2011 | Color, DinaWakley, Everyday Life, Ideas Spurred by Design

By Dina Wakley I have three boys who I affectionately call “the fellas.” I love my boys, truly and deeply! Having all boys, however, means that I have fewer opportunities to use cute girly scrapbook products and even fewer opportunities to use one of my favorite...