Scrapbook ideas and tutorials

Grab this e-reader-ready 43-page pdf and get how-tos and inspiration for moving from a stack of photos to complete scrapbook page. We want you making pages that look great and “mean.” Cost $0 Try Debbie’s 5-step process for telling your life stories with image, color, motif, and words. And then check out FIFTEEN go-to compositions. [...]

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If you love scrapbooking, personal blogging, memoir, art journaling, keeping photo albums–or any form of memory keeping, please check out our early episodes of “This Memory Keeper’s Life,” a new scrapbooking podcast. And then tell us what you think, what you’d like to hear more of–and consider signing on to talk to us about your [...]

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by Debbie Hodge The canvas is the piece of paper (or digital background) upon which you build your page. It’s what holds all of your elements, and it defines the space within in which you’re working. The canvas shape and size is one of the choices you have to make, and the base material is [...]

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by Debbie Hodge A successful scrapbook page captures the viewer’s attention, controls the eye’s movement, conveys information, and evokes emotion. The title is 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 [...]

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by Debbie Hodge The canvas is the piece of paper (or digital background) upon which you build your page. It’s what holds all of your elements, and it defines the space within in which you’re working. One of the first scrapbooking choices you’ll make is of canvas size and shape. This choice is primarily driven by how [...]

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By Paula Gilarde For some people the term “scrapbook” evokes visions of construction paper, shaped photos and stickers. But, for me, scrapbooking is about so much more: In scrapbooking events and moments from my life and that of my family, I get a chance to re-live them, to reminisce. In doing so, I’ve found that [...]

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by Debbie Hodge Photos are easier to come by today than ever before. You take them with your phone as well as your camera. Your partner, parent, child, friends are taking photos on their phones and cameras and sending them to you via email or facebook or their preferred photo sharing website. You can even [...]

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These are the basic supplies you’ll use to make a digital scrapbook page. 1. Digital scrapbooking software To make a digital scrapbook page you will need software for combining your photos and journaling with digital scrapbooking elements. The most widely used programs for digital scrapbooking are Adobe’s Photoshop Elements and Photoshop CS. The free tutorials and [...]

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So you’d like to start collecting, preserving, and presenting your photos. You’ve heard this referred to as ”scrapbooking” traditionally and, more recently, as “memory-keeping.” Whether you scrapbook with paper supplies or digital supplies, whether you think of your collections as albums or photo books, understanding the elements of a scrapbook page, basic design principles, and all [...]

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by Debbie Hodge I approach making scrapbook pages by asking myself questions that are based upon my understanding of: 5 scrapbook page elements (canvas, photos, journaling, title, embellishments), and 6 design principles (emphasis, contrast, balance, alignment, repetition, and flow). It’s not really as formal that sounds, though. The premise is: If you know what the [...]

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