by Debbie Hodge Creating a black-and-white scrapbook page offers opportunities and challenges. You can create eye-catching contrasts, but attention to values becomes important for adding interest, creating a focal point, and guiding the eye. See how our Creative Team has approached this challenge — and make your own page. Take the challenge: Make a new [...]
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Technique and Product Ideas for Adding a Trendy Gilded Look to Your Scrapbook Pages
by Debbie Hodge Surface treatments that add a golden finish are trendy in home decor, and gold is showing up in fashion, too. Gardener Susan Cohan says, “Opulence isn’t a dirty word. After years of frugal garden and DIY design options ie. the pallet craze and other recycled madness, many (including me) are ready for [...]
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9 Ways to Give Your Scrapbook Pages a Trendy Rainbow Color Treatment
by Debbie Hodge The spring fashion runway was full of bold colors and rainbow combinations, and the “rainbow” color scheme is a popular choice for weddings in 2013, Rainbow-colored hair treatments are even trendy this year. Here, the Get It Scrapped Creative Team put rainbow color schemes to work on their scrapbook pages, matching their [...]
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Use the Colors Found in Nature to Deepen Your Scrapbook Page Stories
by Debbie Hodge You can use color on your scrapbook pages to evoke feelings — and, thus, make your story more powerful and more readily understood. While some color associations derive from personal and cultural experiences that vary around the world, the ones that come from nature are universal. Vegetation is green. The water and [...]
Ideas for Using Navy Blue as a Neutral on Scrapbook Pages
by Debbie Hodge Most scrapbookers use neutrals in combination with colorful photos, papers and embellishments. Reasons to use neutrals on your scrapbook pages: Neutrals on your scrapbook page can make other colors look brighter and deeper Neutrals on your scrapbook page can tone down colors that might overpower. Neutrals on your scapbook page can provide [...]
Ideas for Using Tone-On-Tone Patterns and Layered Elements on Scrapbook Pages
by Debbie Hodge Tone-on-tone print patterns combine different shades and tones of the same color. Using these prints on your page adds interest without the busy-ness of a many-colored print. Another approach to getting tone-on-tone effects on your pages is through the layering of elements in varying shades and tones of the same color. This [...]
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Use Color on Scrapbook Pages to Evoke a Physiological Response
Studies have found that a majority of humans share physiological reactions to certain colors. These responses are different from psychological associations viewers have with colors which will are dependent upon experiences and culture. Physiological responses have to do with the way the viewer’s body responds, for example creating calm or excitement. A physiological response to red [...]
Ideas for Using the Color Red on Scrapbook Pages
About the Color Red Color conveys meanings or evokes feelings in three chief ways. See the resulting associations with red for each trigger. 1. PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE: Red is stimulating, exciting, aggressive, dominant, dynamic, passionate, dangerous. 2. IN NATURE: Red is the color of berries, blossoms, roses and blood. In nature the color is associated with that which is emotionally [...]
Ideas for Using the Color Mint on Scrapbook Pages
Mint, like other shades of green is often related to nature and representing growth and freshness. It’s a color we’re used to seeing around us and works well for backgrounds. Mint is also a currently trendy color. It’s a popular color for weddings in 2013, and it’s showing up in fashion, home decor and front doors. [...]
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Scrapbooking with the Color Blue
About Blue | Blue Dominating | Blue Drawing the Eye | Blue Guiding the Eye | Blue Accenting About the Color Blue Color conveys meanings or evokes feelings in three chief ways. See the resulting associations with blue for each trigger. 1. PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE: Blue is calming, comforting and soothing. People are more productive in [...]
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