by Amy Kingsford Use trees on your scrapbook pages to set the scene for your story, to reinforce your page’s theme, and even to convey meaning. A little bit about trees Trees are the longest living organisms on Earth. The tallest tree in the country lives in the Redwood National Forest; it is 369 feet [...]
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5 Liftable Ideas from 1 Scrapbook Page by Kim Watson
It’s the accumulation of well-chosen and carefully crafted details that create a masterful scrapbook page. Check out 5 details on “Tiki” by Kim Watson and see if one or two of them can inspire your next page. This is just one of the pages jam-packed with ideas that Kim is sharing this month at Masterful Scrapbook [...]
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Give the Visual Triangle a Rest and Try Diagonal Flow
by Debbie Hodge When you incorporate visual flow into your scrapbook page design, you guide the viewer’s eye through it, ensuring they understand what’s important about the story you are telling. The most common types of scrapbook page flow are visual triangle, z-flow, circular flow and diagonal flow. Composing a photograph so that your subject [...]
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5 Ideas for Using Digital Word Art for Scrapbook Page Titles
By Amy Kingsford Using digital word art as a title for your scrapbook pages can be quick, fun, and, best of all, super easy! Ideas for turning your favorite word art into the perfect title for your next scrapbook page follow. Note: If you’re in need of word art to put the following ideas into [...]
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6 Ways to Make Embellishment Clusters on Scrapbook Pages
A fun way to work with embellishments is to group them together. Embellishment clusters can be showy or simple. The beauty of a cluster is that you can combine several elements, including images, to reinforce page subject and contribute to design. Think of an embellishment cluster as a small arrangement that works both on its [...]
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Easy Scrapbook Page Recipe: Make Repeated Photo Border
Betsy Sammarco scrapbooked two of her favorite photos on “Cherry Blossoms.” One photo is enlarged and the other is repeated many times — with one instance of it framed. (Check out 4 Ways to Use Repeated Photos for more scrapbook page ideas.) Step-by-step 1. Select two photos: one a close-up and one a smaller context [...]
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How to Use a Challenge Kit To End A Creative Slump
by Tami Taylor Are you looking for a way to end a creative slump? Make a “challenge kit” that limits and defines the supplies you can use, and make art today. In the slump Shakespeare wrote “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” Me? Lately I’m stuck–I’m an observer [...]
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7 Ideas for Scrapbooking Teen Boys
by Debbie Hodge Once your child is a teen, the photos you get, the stories you have to tell, and the permission you might just need to scrapbook those stories all change. This week on Paperclipping Roundtable, I joined Noell and Izzy Hyman, Ana Cabrera, and Nancy Nally to talk about scrapbooking teens. Take a [...]
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5 Liftable Ideas from 1 Scrapbook Page by Emily Pitts
It’s the accumulation of well-chosen and carefully crafted details that create a masterful scrapbook page. Check out 5 details on “Don’t Forget to Pray” by Emily Pitts and see if one or two of them can inspire your next page. 1. Create page flow with misting. The blue mist on Emily’s white canvas guides the eye [...]
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5 Liftable Ideas from 1 Scrapbook Page by Kelly Purkey
It’s the accumulation of well-chosen and carefully crafted details that create a masterful scrapbook page. Check out 5 details on “Sustainable Sustenance” by Kelly Purkey and see if one or two of them can inspire your next page. 1. Use a printed paper bag (or menu or map or other memorabilia) for your page canvas. Kelly [...]
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