Scrapbook ideas and tutorials

by Debbie Hodge “Folk” art is the art of the people — and the motifs and colors will vary with those peoples (and cultures) in which they arose. Folk art is defined by Dictionary.com as being marked with attributes of “highly decorative design, bright bold colors, flattened perspective, strong forms in simple arrangements, and immediacy [...]

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by Debbie Hodge As photographers and memory-keepers have discovered the ease and enjoyment of “Project Life” Scrapbooking, products designed to fit into 3″ x 4″ pockets have proliferated. The grid-based configurations of Project Life pages make for easy arrangement of many page elements and they aren’t JUST for Project Life pages. They’re great for all [...]

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by Debbie Hodge  The spring fashion runway was full of bold colors and rainbow combinations, and the “rainbow” color scheme is a popular choice for weddings in 2013, Rainbow-colored hair treatments are even trendy this year. Here, the Get It Scrapped Creative Team put rainbow color schemes to work on their scrapbook pages, matching their [...]

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by Debbie Hodge why are arrows trendy? Archery made a big showing in pop culture last year, with Katniss in The Hunger Games, Miranda in Brave, and Hawkeye in The Avengers all using bows and arrows to achieve their ends. Archery has become a newly popular activity with bigger audiences watching it in the Olympics, [...]

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by Debbie Hodge This is an update of an article we ran summer 2012. Since then many new scrapbooking products with feathers have been released so we’re revisiting the topic with more feathery pages. Take a look around home decor, fashion, hairstyles, and even wedding wear and decorations and you’ll see feathers.   They are [...]

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Fashion and home decor and craft trends come out of a number of things, including current events, social issues, the economy, entertainments, and technology. When you use trendy motifs, patterns, materials and techniques on your scrapbooking pages, you’re adding details that evoke the times in which they were made. If you’ve been scrapbooking for more [...]

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Following on the 2012 profusion of prints (and even wildly mixed prints), 2013 fashion trends include the bold stripe. It’s still a pattern but one Stylecaster calls “palette-cleansing. See our “Bold Stripes” pinboard for examples of stripes in fashion, accessories and home decor and a recent post on mixing stripes with punchy florals.   See how our Creative [...]

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by Debbie Hodge Painting techniques have shown up on t-shirt, tabletop decor, and wallpaper. We’re seeing wide and messy brush strokes and even finger-painting looks on everyday accessories, clothing and even dishes.   Amy Kingsford says, “I combined a lively painted background paper with brushes and doodles to get a painterly look for a page about [...]

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by Debbie Hodge positive and negative: doily as mask Jennifer Matott says, “I used doilies with both in positive- and negative-space techniques.  I used a paper doily as a mask and also as a solid embellishment. I chose the doilies in bright colors and with intricate detailing for a festive and celebratory feel.” “Use the doily as [...]

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Home decor trends can be a good source of ideas for scrapbook page design. Julie Rogowski of the Boston Decorating Center says that when it comes to home decorating currently, the emphasis is changing from ‘Where can I save the most money’ to ‘What’s the perfect piece that totally reflects me.’ She says, “People are now [...]

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