by Debbie Hodge | Jun 9, 2015 | Design Your Story, Ideas via Product & Technique
There are a variety of ways you can use text in addition to title or journaling on your scrapbook page for design and storytelling purposes. In a membership webinar with Doris Sander, she shared four ways she uses textual elements in her designs: 1) words around a...
by Amy Kingsford | May 20, 2015 | Digital / Photoshop Techniques for Scrapbooking, Feature, Hybrid Scrapbooking, Ideas via Product & Technique, Titles
Designing with fonts gets less expensive when you use designer bundles like those at The Hungry Jpeg. They offer up a big selection of fonts and digital art at a heavy discount for a short time (usually a month). Over the last year, many of the scrapbookers spending...
by Debbie Hodge | May 13, 2015 | Ideas via Product & Technique
Zentangle techniques are structured designs for doodlers, usually done in a single color pen on a white background. Because it’s a structured approach to doodling, there are lots of formulas and lessons to pull from to making a zentangle design even if...
by Debbie Hodge | Apr 28, 2015 | Ideas from Current Trends, Ideas via Product & Technique
Tension is an important element in making something beautiful, including scrapbook layout designs. Including an unexpected juxtaposition is one way to create tension. Creative Team member Karen Poirier-Brode reported on trends last year after attending a Pantone Trend...
by Amy Kingsford | Mar 9, 2015 | Ideas via Product & Technique, Motif, Picture Your Story, Videos
In “flat geometric” works, the designs are rendered with geometric shapes on flat surfaces in a way that conveys depth and dimension. Color, value, and shape all combine to create the illusion of dimension. This trend is popular now in illustration, home decor, and...
by Debbie Hodge | Feb 3, 2015 | Ideas via Product & Technique, Photos
Scrapbooking heritage photos is a great way to make sure their stories endure. When it comes to styling those heritage scrapbook pages you have many choices. Here, the Get It Scrapped Creative Team shows you how to use elements with modern styling to scrapbook your...