by Debbie Hodge | Sep 29, 2011 | Ideas via Product & Technique, Paper Techniques for Scrapbooking
by Sharyn Tormanen Years ago, I attended a home stamping party and the demonstrator taught us about masking: I was in awe. Masking opens up a whole new world of possibilities for your stamp collection. In fact it has remained one of my favorite ways to work with...
by Debbie Hodge | Sep 27, 2011 | Ideas for Page Elements, Ideas for Page Topics, Journaling, Paula Gilarde, Photos, Write Your Story
By Paula Gilarde What do you do when you have a memory that you want to preserve, but no photo? Here are a few of my favorite things to use in lieu of a photo: 1. Words One day when my kids were very little, I was having an awful day. Everything went wrong. It was...
by Debbie Hodge | Sep 14, 2011 | Digital / Photoshop Techniques for Scrapbooking, Ideas for Page Elements, Jana Morton, Photos, Picture Your Story
by Jana Morton Taking photos can transform the way you see the world, spurring you to notice little details that might otherwise go unnoticed. Creating art from those photos is a way to express the feelings these photos evoke – and to communicate those feelings to...
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...
by Amy Kingsford | Sep 8, 2011 | Ideas via Product & Technique, Paper Techniques for Scrapbooking
By Amy Kingsford Whether you’ve dabbled in digital scrapbooking yourself or only just admired the look of others pages from afar–chances are that you’ve seen and appreciated a page that utilizes what digital scrapbookers call “brushes.”...
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...
