Get It Scrapped Blog

Scrapbook and art journal pages allow us to tell stories – of ourselves, the people in our lives, and sometimes even of characters we imagine. The imagined stories fiction writer Caroline Preston has told in her novels have been heavily inspired by her love of the vintage scrapbooks in her own family and the manuscripts [...]

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by Jana Morton Taking photos can transform the way you see the world, spurring you to notice little details that might otherwise go unnoticed. Creating art from those photos is a way to express the feelings these photos evoke – and to communicate those feelings to others. All designs in this article are by Jana [...]

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By Dina Wakley I have three boys who I affectionately call “the fellas.” I love my boys, truly and deeply! Having all boys, however, means that I have fewer opportunities to use cute girly scrapbook products and even fewer opportunities to use one of my favorite colors: pink! I decided a few years ago that [...]

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By Dina Wakley Shaped papers are patterned scrapbook papers that come in any shape other than a square. You can find lots of them on the market currently. While it’s easy to add them to your basket in the store, it can get challenging to use them on a scrapbook page. Here are five fun [...]

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By Dina Wakley I love contrast. If you want a page element to be powerful, contrast it with its opposite and you have mega-impact. Contrast is what makes a piece of art surprising, or interesting, or even just plain good. Contrast is essentially the use of opposites on the same piece of art. Opposites used together [...]

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By Dina Wakley I always say that one of the reasons I love art journaling is that there are no rules. Anything goes. You can do what you want. The process of putting paint on the page is more important than the finished outcome. So, why care about composition? I firmly believe there’s value and [...]

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Love spray ink? Wish you knew more about spray ink? Or are you just looking for some examples of spray ink projects? Begin with Dina Wakley’s video tutorial and then check out the links for other online spray-ink how-tos as well as several spray-ink projects. Spray-ink video tutorial with Dina Wakley This video tutorial shares [...]

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by Michelle Houghton Sometimes, for something fun and different, I like to write my journaling in shapes—not just in a circle like we did above but spiraling around the edge of a circle or other shape. It isn’t practical for reading—the reader always ends up upside down and backward trying to read around the loops—but [...]

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by Michelle Houghton OK, I love these little guys!  I love the frame the circle creates around my journaling.  Circles will come in at the end of the steps but grab a scrap piece of paper first and do some practicing. You know what I’m going to say: “Get your elbow off the table.” With [...]

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by Amy Kingsford I have always been fascinated with old books . . .  the smell, the worn edges, the discolored and torn pages all seem to hold a certain history that should never be discarded. Every year, though, libraries, bookstores and schools discard millions of books–leading me to believe that we are coming to [...]

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