by Debbie Hodge | Sep 3, 2013 | Ideas from Current Trends, Motif, Travel
The newly-popular ‘glamping’ trend offers up a wealth scrapbooking ideas for choosing color, motif, texture, and pattern for scrapbook layouts. Glamping refers to vacationing in nature, but with amenities not typically associated with...
by Debbie Hodge | Aug 28, 2013 | Color, Ideas from Current Trends
Take a scrapbooking idea from the ombre color trend. It has shown up on cakes, hair, fingernails, fashion, and stationary so why not on scrapbooking layouts? ombre: having colors or tones that shade into each other —used especially of fabrics in which the color is...
by Debbie Hodge | Aug 5, 2013 | Feature, Ideas for Page Elements, Titles
Type makes language visible, and is an important tool for telling scrapbook page stories. Read on for scrapbooking ideas to combine alphas, typefaces, word meaning, color, and size to create both a strong visual element and a story-telling tool. 1. Use sayings and...
by Debbie Hodge | Jul 24, 2013 | Feature, Ideas from Current Trends, Motif
The cityscape motif is appearing on scrapbook pages lately. It seems we’re dreaming of urban life. Over at Trendhunter.com the trendiness of the cityscape motif for fashion and home decor was noted with the following thoughts: “For centuries, art depicting...
by Debbie Hodge | Apr 5, 2011 | Ideas via Product & Technique, Patterned Paper
Patterned paper was my scrapbooking “entry drug.” It’s the product I check out first when I’m shopping for supplies. It’s the product I choose first when I’m making a page. Check out these ideas for incorporating patterned paper into your scrapbook pages. 1. Use...
