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by Debbie Hodge A scrapbook page combines photos, text, and embellishments within the space of the page canvas. Margins and mats can be used to “frame” your composition and add emphasis.  Frames are familiar. We’re accustomed to frames on artwork, windows, and even computer screens. You can use framing and matting to orient the viewer’s perspective of your [...]

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by Debbie Hodge When you incorporate visual flow into your scrapbook page design, you guide the viewer’s eye through it, ensuring they understand what’s important about the story you are telling. The most common types of scrapbook page flow are visual triangle, z-flow, circular flow and diagonal flow. Composing a photograph so that your subject [...]

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by Debbie Hodge The work of selecting and combining colors for scrapbook pages is much like the work of of employing design principles: it’s not a straightforward, step-by-step task. Rather, it’s one with points or questions to hold loosely in you mind and cycle through, revisiting until it looks right. Here are three questions to consider [...]

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by Debbie Hodge A focal point is the center of a design. It is the most important part (or parts) of a piece. A scrapbook page benefits from having a focal point because Without some variation in emphasis among the elements on your page, everything takes on the same level of importance, and the viewer has to [...]

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by Debbie Hodge There are several layout configurations of combined elements that scrapbookers use again and again when making scrapbook pages (for example, blocked, clustered, and shaped). These foundations are used again and again because they work well for housing the most frequently encountered combinations of elements (1 to 5 photos with title and journaling) and [...]

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Betsy Sammarco scrapbooked two of her favorite photos on “Cherry Blossoms.” One photo is enlarged and the other is repeated many times — with one instance of it framed. (Check out 4 Ways to Use Repeated Photos for more scrapbook page ideas.) Step-by-step 1. Select two photos: one a close-up and one a smaller context [...]

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When one element is different from another, there is contrast. The bigger the differences, the greater the contrast. Greater (i.e., obvious) contrast is what you’re after to make better page designs because contrast draws the eye and makes your elements “pop.” Contrast in titles Your title can not only contrast with the other elements on [...]

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Inforgraphics are great for a quick review of things you may already have begun learning but can’t recall with perfection — or they can be an introduction of just what to study for newbies. Check out 8 infographics that cover the choices we make when designing scrapbook pages. The Creative Process   |   Choosing Type   | [...]

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by Debbie Hodge This article appears in the March issue of Paper and Pixels alongside many more how-tos and ideas for paper and digital scrapbooking. Creating white space: figure and ground As you create a scrapbook page, you are: telling a story or conveying your concept (or meaning or big idea) by combining page elements [...]

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by Debbie Hodge “Straight-on” photos Close to 100 percent of my scrapbook pages have photos placed like these on Spring Break: “straight-on.” The sides of the photos run parallel to the canvas sides (and the tops and bottoms run parallel to canvas top and bottom) — these parallel lines extend into the distance never to [...]

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