by Debbie Hodge | Mar 17, 2011 | Doris Sander, Ideas via Product & Technique, Patterned Paper
By Doris Sander Patterned Paper is a beautiful, versatile, and inexpensive scrapbook product. One of my favorite ways to work with it is to cut or tear the paper in strips. Once you see how many looks can be achieved with them, you’ll understand why working...
by Debbie Hodge | Jan 25, 2011 | Composition, Get Started
by Debbie Hodge Here’s a quick and easy way to get a scrapbook page started, improved, and then finally tweaked with small details. It usually takes me 2.5-3 hours to make a page – no matter whether it’s paper or digital. In a quest to start speeding things up, I’ve...
by Debbie Hodge | Dec 27, 2010 | Composition
by Debbie Hodge Sometimes I like a little help getting ideas when I start my scrapbook pages. I don’t always want to use a sketch or a template because I want to play with design myself — and, yet, I’d like a starting place. The following are three...
by Debbie Hodge | Dec 21, 2010 | Composition
by Debbie Hodge “Active white space is carefully considered emptiness.” – Alex White, The Elements of Graphic Design Take a look at three versions of the same scrapbook page as more and more considered white space is incorporated. White space on scrapbook pages...
by Debbie Hodge | Dec 20, 2010 | Composition
by Debbie Hodge When I speak of your page’s foundation, I’m referring either to some kind of underlying grid structure, or the first one or two layers you put onto the page and then build from. That first element (or layer) is what connects the other elements to the...
