by Debbie Hodge | Feb 20, 2013 | Feature, Motif, Patterned Paper
Print patterns for scrapbooking fall into the four general categories of floral, geometric, motif, and pictorial. (Be sure to check out our very complete discussion of all four pattern types.) There are two types of motifs: representational and abstract. The image in...
by Debbie Hodge | Nov 27, 2012 | Get It Scrapped!
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by Debbie Hodge | Sep 12, 2012 | Feature, Ideas from Current Trends, Ideas via Product & Technique, Patterned Paper
by Debbie Hodge Matchy-matchy is out in fashion this year, and clashing patterns are in. Eclectic looks made with a mashup of prints–think leopard with floral and stripes–have been filling the runways. This is just one of the trends we’ve highlighted...
by Debbie Hodge | Nov 17, 2011
Design principles are the rules that let you put the parts of a scrapbook page together so that they: capture the viewer’s attention, control the eye’s movement, convey information, and evoke emotion–all awesome things to achieve with a page. Design Principles...
by Amy Kingsford | Apr 25, 2011 | MacGyver of Scrapbooking, Organization
by Amy Kingsford Buttons…buttons…who’s got some buttons!? Buttons are one of my favorite things in the world! I remember looking through my grandmother’s button stash as a little girl and telling her one day I’d have a button collection just like...
