by Debbie Hodge What do you do when you want to get lots of photos onto your single-page layout AND you’ve got a good bit of journaling to add? Here are 4 ideas for pulling it off –even when you think there isn’t any room. 1. Use longer text lines Longer text lines can be harder [...]
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Finding Room for Journaling on Scrapbook Pages with Lots of Photos
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Do you need that scrapbook page title? Only if it’s doing a job and doing it well
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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Roundup of Ideas and Tutorials for Scrapbook Page Titles
Find ideas and how-tos for coming up with and rendering titles on your digital and paper scrapbook pages. 10 Creative Techniques for Titling Your Layouts (Aaron Morris) 10 approaches to coming up with a title for your scrapbook pages. 14 Ideas for Scrapbook Page Titles (Jennifer Wilson / Simple Scrapper) 14 layouts that will get you out of [...]
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Get Started Scrapbooking | Why Canvas Shape and Size Matter
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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4 Ideas for Starting Scrapbook Pages with a Pieced Background
by Debbie Hodge Your scrapbook page canvas is the base upon which you build your page. You might use solid cardstock, patterned paper, a die-cut shape, a base altered with mediums like paint and ink, or – how about a pieced background? Here are 4 ideas for starting your next scrapbook page with a pieced-paper [...]
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Quotations and Word Art for Scrapbooking Gratitude and Thanksgiving
by Amy Kingsford The time is upon us to take special recognition of those things in our lives for which we are grateful. I personally have so much to be thankful for, and I am especially thankful to be celebrating my son’s first Thanksgiving holiday this year. Below are a collection of quotations and a [...]
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Organize Your December Album by Theme This Year
by Anna Aspnes We now have the freedom to take as many photos as we like, and probably more than we need, especially during the holidays when we tend to overindulge in capturing the magic of the season. The task of choosing photos for any project can quickly become overwhelming without a system in place [...]
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Tell a Story with Vintage Ephemera | Caroline Preston’s Scrapbook Novel
Scrapbook and art journal pages allow us to tell stories – of ourselves, the people in our lives, and sometimes even of characters we imagine. The imagined stories fiction writer Caroline Preston has told in her novels have been heavily inspired by her love of the vintage scrapbooks in her own family and the manuscripts [...]
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Quotations and Word Art for Scrapbooking Autumn
by Amy Kingsford Fall is my favorite time of year–the crunching of leaves under my feet, the smell of pumpkin chocolate chip cookies baking and the beautiful scenery that stretches across the mountain side. Below are Autumn-inspired quotations and free printable word art to help you scrapbook the season! Autumn Quotations “The leaves fall, the [...]
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How 1 Set of Photos Inspired 3 Scrapbook Page Stories
by Doris Sander The saying goes “a picture is worth a thousand words.” And I could not agree more! I often say that photos speak to me. I know this sounds a bit odd, but let me explain what I mean by that comment. As a scrapbooker, one of the ultimate joys in my life [...]
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