by Debbie Hodge I love scrapbooking. I love having scrapbook pages made. And sometimes, in my rush to try a new look or use a new product or just get those new photos on the page, I neglect journaling. Yep. Even though I’ve written countless articles and lessons on how to incorporate meaningful journaling on [...]
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How to use Copic Markers Tutorial 26 | Coloring Transparent Balloons
by Michelle Houghton This lesson teaches the basics of coloring a transparent object. The image is a simple one, as is the coloring, but the results are amazing. When coloring these, I want to make the balloons look like you can see through them. I used 3 lighter colors and my colorless blender to complete [...]
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4 Places to Find Scrapbook Page Inspiration Under Your Own Roof
by Amy Kingsford Inspiration truly is EVERYWHERE–including right under your very nose! We accumulate hundreds of mementos and objects throughout our lifetime. As such, our own homes are natural places to begin the search for scrapbook page inspiration. Using treasured belongings and memories from your home to inspire your pages is a sure-fire way to [...]
3 Journaling Treatments That Add Texture and Dimension to Your Scrapbook Page
by Debbie Hodge Texture is tactile. When you add texture and dimension to your scrapbook page, you engage the viewer’s sense of touch — another sense in addition to sight. As a result you draw your viewer in on another level. It’s an obvious design move to add texture with embellishments, chipboard titlework, and mixed [...]
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Scrapbook Page Sketch and Template Bundle (#82)
by Debbie Hodge Here are three new coordinated scrapbook page sketches with free layered templates for digital scrapbooking. Use one of these singly or, when you’re making a multi-page album, these sketches complement each other well. You can find all of our sketches in the “Sketches” Category here. Download zipped file with layered templates for use [...]
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Keep a 5-Year Journal | Progress to Date and Prompts for March
by Tami Taylor Welcome back. This is the second installment of this series: “Keep a 5 year Journal.” I’m back with a quick list of observations and another list of questions. I’ve been plugging away at my journal and have a few things to share: It’s not too late to reevaluate your system My drawer [...]
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Scrapbooking Themes Quickstart: Valentine/Love Images, Sayings and Fonts
Making a Valentine’s Day page or a page about your love for someone? Use these “quickstarts” to get ideas for your page motifs, embellishments, wordart, titles, and fonts. Hallmark Images of Love | Love Sayings and Phrases | Fonts for Love Pages This series provides “starter” lists for making scrapbook pages on [...]
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4 Approaches to Framing Scrapbook Page Compositions for Visual Power
by Debbie Hodge When you make a scrapbook page you are combining elements (photos, text, embellishments, journaling, title) within space (your canvas). Your canvas shape and size are what define the space within which you create. The edges of the canvas define your scrapbook page boundaries and the treatment of them offers opportunities for affecting how a viewer [...]
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Does that embellishment belong on your scrapbook page? 4 ways to know
by Debbie Hodge A successful scrapbook page captures the viewer’s attention, controls the eye’s movement, conveys information, and evokes emotion. Embellishments are one of the tools you have for achieving these ends. Just as every sentence in a story should either deepen character or advance the action, every item on your scrapbook page should be pulling its weight. Every element [...]
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One Month at a Time | January 2012
by Tami Taylor It finally started feeling like winter here in Vegas, and then it started feeling like too much winter! Even after living here for six years, I am surprised at how cold it gets. I know it’s not as cold as most places, and it’s not unexpectedly snowy like the recent Washington weather [...]
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