by Debbie Hodge | Aug 20, 2013 | Ideas from Current Trends, Paper Techniques for Scrapbooking
by Michelle Houghton Pinwheels are trendy scrapbook layout embellishments. And they are easy to make yourself. Use the instructions that follow to customize embellishments that make scrapbooking personal. You need a few supplies: double sided paper glue dot brad or...
by Debbie Hodge | Mar 1, 2011 | DinaWakley, Ideas via Product & Technique
by Dina Wakley I love manila tags. I think this love stems from my affinity for office supplies. I can go into an office store and browse for hours. There’s just something about new pens, sticky notes, and shipping tags that makes me happy. Manila tags generally come...
by Debbie Hodge | Mar 31, 2010 | Embellishments, Hybrid Scrapbooking, Ideas for Page Elements, Paula Gilarde
by Paula Gilarde Don’t have the right embellishment for your page? Use Photoshop (or even Word if you’re handy with its drawing features) to create shapes, then add color and text for a custom embellishment you can print, trim, and mount on your paper...
by Debbie Hodge | Feb 26, 2010 | Design Principles, Embellishments
Embellishments can be used with other page elements to guide the viewer’s eye through the page. We all routinely scan our surroundings – even when we focus on a spot, we eventually change our field of vision. As we make this change, we do a quick scan of the...
by Debbie Hodge | Feb 18, 2010 | Design Principles, Embellishments
by Debbie Hodge Think about racing stripes on a car, earrings on a woman, roses on china. Each of these are embellishments. Wikipedia defines an embellishment as something that enhances appearance without having any functional purpose. I say “not so” when it comes to...
