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Craft a memoir one story at a time. Fill your blog, journals, and scrapbooks with rich, well-paced storytelling that records your life.  

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Posted in Feature, Journaling, News

10-Photo Scrapbook Pages

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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Posted in Composition, Feature, Photos

Embellishment Collections Have Over-the-Top Appeal and are a Great Way to Stash-Bust

by Debbie Hodge One of the 4 approaches we recommend for using up your stash is to “find strength in numbers.” You can combine a whole of elements when you unify around something like color or theme or motif. See how the Creative Team collected and found strength in numbers below. Kiki Kougioumtzi says, “This is [...]

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Posted in Embellishments, Feature, Ideas via Product & Technique

Ideas for Shapely Journaling that Reinforces Meaning and Story on Scrapbook Pages

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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Posted in Composition, Feature, Journaling

Merge Title and Journaling for a Scrapbook Page Story with Unity and Charm

by Debbie Hodge At Get It Scrapped, we frequently share ideas for what we call the 5 different parts of a scrapbook page: photos, title, journaling, embellishments, and canvas. Any time the content of one or more of those elements are closely linked your page has more unity, your story has more power, and you [...]

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Posted in Feature, Journaling, Titles

Go Off the Edge with Clusters and Bits For Scrapbook Pages with Tension

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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Posted in Composition, Embellishments, Feature

3 Ways to Edit Your Photos for Scrapbook Pages with Totally Rad Lab

by Debbie Hodge I edit every photo I scrapbook with Totally Rad Lab. I don’t edit every photo — just the ones I’m putting on scrapbook pages — and I don’t spend more than 30 seconds editing any photo. Three of my favorite ways to oomph up my photos for the page using Totally Rad [...]

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Posted in Digital / Photoshop Techniques for Scrapbooking, Photography, Photos

Ideas for Scrapbook Pages with 9 photos

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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Posted in By # of Photos, Composition, Feature, Photos

Designing Scrapbook Pages with Square Photos: Stable But Not Boring

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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Posted in Composition, Feature, Photos

5 Ways to Make Scrapbook Page Journaling A Dynamic Part of Your Visual Design

by Debbie Hodge The space your journaling fills has a shape it and it a particular amount of visual weight. A block with tight line spacing will be dense and, thus, heavier than a few staggered lines. Pay attention to the shape and weight of your journaling and use it as an integral part of [...]

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Posted in Composition, Feature, Journaling

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