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 30, 2011 | Design Principles
by Debbie Hodge The stability of threes The human mind likes things that comes in threes: three coins in a fountain, three-ring circuses, and Goldilocks’ three bears. Speech coaches, writers, and comedians all understand that ideas presented in threes are more easily...
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...
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...
