Scrapbook ideas and tutorials

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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by Debbie Hodge The asymmetrical cross is a scrapbook layout design that has flexibility for just one photo or many. Dina Wakley praises this design for its flexibility says, “It’s a great framework on which you can be creative and add many or just a few photos and embellishments. To keep the design fresh, I change my [...]

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by Debbie Hodge The text of your journaling has a shape. It also takes on visual weight and can even set a mood.  When you’re deciding how and where to place your scrapbook page journaling consider: how you might place and shape your journaling to enhance the story you’re telling how you might place, shape, and [...]

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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 they [...]

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by Debbie Hodge When I began this page I knew that I wanted to make a page that included lots of buttons and pretty bits in a profusion alongside two photos from the Easter Table. I started with two same-sized photos. It took me a bit of time to figure out that I needed to [...]

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When you set up a visual situation with tension, the viewer feels like something isn’t quite right, that something might happen they don’t want to miss. And so they dive into your piece and stay! One way to add tension to scrapbook pages is to “break canvas edges.” Doing this is unexpected, but it also [...]

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About Figure and Ground and Page Foundations Make a “shelf” page with embellishment “scatters” Click here for Quick Reference PDF

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Got lots of photos? Check out the Get It Scrapped team’s ideas for getting 9 photos onto the page. Katie Scott says, “These photos are from a fun layover at the Denver Airport. My husband had seen a show about this airport on the SciFi channel so I took extra photos for him.” “To get nine [...]

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by Debbie Hodge Squares are familiar and stable shapes. Their right angles and equal sides suggest order, equality, and even conformity. So how do you leverage the stability of squares and steer clear of boring? Our team and teachers show you ideas for how they like to use square photos on their scrapbook pages. Squares [...]

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