by Debbie Hodge A good title connects your photos to their story. I often start with a placeholder title in mind when I’m making a scrapbook page. I hold it in my mind, and, as I add elements to the page, more ideas come—sometimes without work, and other times because I employ one of these approaches. 1)...

by Debbie Hodge Ah, embellishments! Yes, they are decorations for your scrapbook pages, but they can do a lot more–from supporting theme and meaning, to guiding the eye and offering opportunities for repetitions that build page unity. Your primary tasks when it comes to adding the embellishments to...

Making scrapbook pages about yourself is an awesome thing to give to friends, family AND yourself. Scrap YOUR Story is a series of 11 lessons that are available right here and right now on the Get It Scrapped! website(that link shows all of the lessons in REVERSE order, so just scroll down to the bottom...

by Amy Kingsford Here’s an idea for jazzing up your scrapbook page titles and embellishments. Ransom Alphas are a fun new trend both in paper and digital scrapbooking worlds. Basically a “Ransom Alpha” is an alphabet that is made up of mismatched letters and fonts.  Like this fun font called For...

by Debbie Hodge When you’re cropping photos of people you have several decisions to make that will affect the photo’s presentation on the page. Of course, you could make these decisions when you’re taking the photo–but just in case you didn’t, here are some things to think about for...

by Debbie Hodge In Travel & Vacations, I described 5 kinds of trips/vacations. Each of these types of travel have their own “story arc” that can help you figure out what pages to include. Here I show you how to approach “Being There.” In each of these articles I refer to a worksheet called the...

by Debbie Hodge The “ah-ha!” story form In the “Ah-ha!” story, someone (probably you) comes to a new realization (aka epiphany). This could be a realization about other people or about self. It could be a realization about the past or a new understanding of current life. The easiest and (probably)...

by Debbie Hodge Making the connections Source: Filmsite.Org Discovering a movie title, a line from a song, a well-known phrase, or a lesser-known and eloquent line of poetry that connects your photos to their story is always satisfying. The following are ideas (and even a technique) for coming up with...

by Paula Gilarde You don’t even need to have some fancy-schmancy photo editing software to try this digital technique. All you need is word-processing software like Word. I used a dingbat font to create a fun custom embellishment for my page. Dingbat fonts are fonts that uses small pictures instead of...

by Amy Kingsford Recoloring paper is a great way to customize your supplies, update them or just to have a little bit of fun! I used paint, glimmer mist, chalk, alcohol ink, glaze, dye, and whitewash to change the color of my scrapbook papers. Read on for the how-tos as well as performance of each on...

by Debbie Hodge Think about this next statement and let it guide your everyday photography: The photos you take of everyday life are not necessarily pictures from memorable events, but, rather, they are representative illustrations of your life. What I mean is: you don’t snap that photo of taking out the...

by Paula Gilarde Filling text with photos is really easy. Inspired by the Shutterfly ad below, I made my page “Firsts In O8.” scrapbook page by Paula Gilarde To do this in Photoshop (Elements or CS) Create an 8.5″x11″ canvas. Select a “chunky” font and type the word or...

by Amy Kingsford Creative organizing is a great way to give your scrap space the makeover it needs while having a little bit of fun!  Check out these fun suggestions for organizing and storing your ribbon using everyday household objects, and see how a little bit of creative organizing can go a long...

You can use the “zoom” feature of 3rd-person point of view to tell a story that captures the current moment AND the times in which it takes place. Take a look at the lyrics to “On the Night Hank Williams Came to Town” (and even listen to Johnny Cash sing it) and then read on to...

by Paula Gilarde Don’t have the right embellishment for your page? Use Photoshop (or even Word if you’re handy with its drawing features) to create shapes, then add color and text for a custom embellishment you can print, trim, and mount on your paper scrapbook page On “Fair” I used...

Writing story journaling is different from writing journaling for scrapbook pages that address a subject like “Piano playing in my life,” “My Favorite Place,” or “On Vacation in DC.” Scrapbooking a story means telling about a particular event (which may take place in few minutes or over a longer...