by Debbie Hodge | Mar 4, 2014 | Ideas from Current Trends, Motif, Patterned Paper
Below are scrapbooking ideas for using premade Bokeh prints on your layouts and how-tos for making your own Bokeh prints with copic ink, digital brushes, and photography. A popular photography goal in recent years is to achieve a successful Bokeh effect, in other...
by Debbie Hodge | Feb 20, 2014 | Digital / Photoshop Techniques for Scrapbooking, Ideas from Current Trends, Motif, Paper Techniques for Scrapbooking
Woodland motifs–like acorns, deer, owl, fox, forest scenes, and stag–are great for scrapbook layout designs of outdoor scenes, holidays, and child play. There’s plenty of woodland inspiration to be found in decor, storybooks, stationery, and even...
by Debbie Hodge | Feb 11, 2014 | Embellishments, Ideas from Current Trends, Motif
Find scrapbooking ideas when you connect the “constellation dots.” Star constellations let us find order in chaos, to make patterns out of randomness, and the motif offers opportunities to: support story (from looking to the stars, to going places, to...
by Debbie Hodge | Jan 9, 2014 | Digital / Photoshop Techniques for Scrapbooking, Motif, Paper Techniques for Scrapbooking, Photos, Picture Your Story
So many scrapbook page stories are told with photos of people — with portraits. Look closely at those faces and the tools and techniques you like to use and get inspired by artsy portraits for the next page you make. We did! And we’ve got the results. ...
by Debbie Hodge | Dec 16, 2013 | Everyday Life, Motif, Travel, Yourself
Is there a place that has your heart? Is there a location with unique characteristics that you’re passionate about? Personalize a scrapbook page about a loved location by incorporating details that are unique to the location. Try: city/country seals...
by Debbie Hodge | Oct 29, 2013 | Motif, Picture Your Story
Typewriters are a retro and enduring motif great for storytelling on scrapbook pages. Typewriters are a tool for presenting the written word. They represent writing and (almost) a time gone by, a time when a machine with moving parts and ink was used to record stories...
