Scrapbook ideas and tutorials

by Debbie Hodge “Folk” art is the art of the people — and the motifs and colors will vary with those peoples (and cultures) in which they arose. Folk art is defined by Dictionary.com as being marked with attributes of “highly decorative design, bright bold colors, flattened perspective, strong forms in simple arrangements, and immediacy [...]

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The “themed” vacation is one that takes you into a created world where you are doing more than viewing, where you’re entering into and experiencing a manufactured reality. You may have gone on a Disney vacation, visited a historic settlement where you’re re-enacting the way things were done in the past, traveled to Santa’s Village, [...]

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Craft a memoir one story at a time. Fill your blog, journals, and scrapbooks with rich, well-paced storytelling that records your life.  

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  Krista’s cool thing right now is using tape to add texture to her digital pages. Krista has found that tape is a quick and easy way to add dimension and give her pages a realistic look.  She enjoys reworking this in many of  her pages. Krista says, “One of the things I love about [...]

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We challenged the GIS Creative Team to mix plaid and paisley patterns on a page. See how they made it work with an attention to color, scale, density and motif combinations. Take the challenge: Make a new paisley-and-plaid scrapbook page. Put it in our Community Gallery with “Paisley & Plaid Challanege” in the title by end-of-day Monday, [...]

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Got lots of photos? Check out the Get It Scrapped team’s ideas for getting 10 photos onto the page. Tara McKernin says, “This layout is for my Project Life album showing my boys and their friends playing baseball one night after school.” “I love grid layouts, which was part of the draw of project life for [...]

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When you’re looking for a starting point and ideas for a scrapbook page, you want resources for getting the job done, and Pinterest probably has what you need–if you could only find it. Christy Strickler (aka Emeraldvalkerie) often uses inspiration found on Pinterest to inspire her scrapbook pages.  Check out her 150+ boards at http://pinterest.com/emeraldvalkyrie/ and read on [...]

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by Debbie Hodge Love mixing lots of patterns on your scrapbook pages?  One of the many lessons Lisa Dickinson shared in Oomph and Polish at Masterful Scrapbook Design was this one for combining patterned papers: Multiple patterns directly overlapping one another can be a busy look. Tone them down visually by placing them within a solid border [...]

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by Debbie Hodge One of the 4 approaches we recommend for using up your stash is to “find strength in numbers.” You can combine a whole of elements when you unify around something like color or theme or motif. See how the Creative Team collected and found strength in numbers below. Kiki Kougioumtzi says, “This is [...]

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by Debbie Hodge It’s the season for moving up, moving on, and ceremonies celebrating accomplishments and new starts. We’ve got graduation word art for you and ideas for making pages that celebrate the achievement of milestones in life. Graduations Deborah Wagner scrapbooked her niece’s graduation from Marquette University. She says, “I didn’t add much embellishing because I [...]

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