by Debbie Hodge | May 26, 2011 | Ideas for Page Topics, Yourself
by Debbie Hodge “I want to go home to the dull old town, with the shaded street, and the open square, and the hill, and the flats, and the house I love, and the paths I know — I want to go home.” — Paul Kester place shapes character The places we come...
by Debbie Hodge | May 19, 2011 | DinaWakley, Ideas via Product & Technique
By Dina Wakley Shaped papers are patterned scrapbook papers that come in any shape other than a square. You can find lots of them on the market currently. While it’s easy to add them to your basket in the store, it can get challenging to use them on a scrapbook...
by Debbie Hodge | May 12, 2011 | Design Principles, Doris Sander, Ideas Spurred by Design
By Doris Sander If you’ve read Debbie Hodge’s recent article, “Tap the Power of ‘3’ for Your Scrapbook Designs,” you know that three unifying elements can make a powerful statement on a scrapbook page. Take a look at the layouts...
by Debbie Hodge | May 7, 2011 | Ideas Spurred by Design, Paper Techniques for Scrapbooking, Videos
We spent almost an hour last week talking to Wilna Furstenberg about patterned paper, the quest to balance busy and serene, scrapbooking intuitively, the design of scrapbook pages, and the meaning of them in the end. Each month at Masterful Scrapbook Design (MSD) we...
by Debbie Hodge | May 3, 2011 | DinaWakley, Ideas via Product & Technique, Patterned Paper
By Dina Wakley There’s nothing like the punch and wow-factor a bold and bright patterned paper gives a page. One thing I’ve learned over the years is how to make a bold piece of patterned paper work for you. Here are a few ideas for using those bright and busy...
by Debbie Hodge | Apr 20, 2011 | Finding and Using Inspiration, Ideas Spurred by Design, Lift These Ideas
by Debbie Hodge Wondering how to add a little something different to the next scrapbook page you make? Try building a page based upon one of these five ideas. 1. Incorporate a curved line into your composition Dina Wakley says, “Continuance is a Gestalt principle that...
