by Debbie Hodge | Mar 24, 2015 | Ideas from Current Trends, Picture Your Story
Incorporating nods to current trends in your scrapbook page storytelling is a great way to incorporate “the times” into your memory keeping. Celebrity happenings and fads spread faster than ever in our socially-connected lives now. Such nods or inside...
by Debbie Hodge | Mar 17, 2015 | Design Your Story, Events, Motif
Are you lucky? Or do you believe in something other than luck? Telling stories about your experiences with and attitude about luck is a great springboard for scrapbook pages that reveal personality and character. Scrapbooking ideas for a few “lucky”...
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 | Mar 5, 2015 | Everyday Life, Ideas for Page Topics
Doris Sander talked with us about her love of the outdoors and of photographing nature and how she tells stories with those photos on scrapbook pages. She also shared with us how the act of blogging has evolved for her, its place in her life now, and how her...
by Debbie Hodge | Mar 2, 2015 | Motif, Picture Your Story, Videos
The family tree motif has been used to represent lineage since the biblical Book of Isaiah. Today this motif endures both for practical and decorative use. Below see a video version of a Get It Scrapped blog post filled with ideas for using the family tree motif on...
by Debbie Hodge | Feb 24, 2015 | Ideas from Current Trends
The Oxford art dictionary defines kitsch as: art, objects, or design considered to be in poor taste because of excessive garishness or sentimentality, but sometimes appreciated in an ironic or knowing way. Some of the world’s greatest artworks are kitsch. The...