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How to Make Patterned Transparency Triangles in Photoshop

by Debbie Hodge I interviewed Corrie Jones for Masterful Scrapbook Design recently and among the many details on her pages that we admired and wanted to lift were the wonky-cut transparency triangles bordering the bottom of her page. In this video tutorial, I show you how to cut the triangles, create and shadow tranparencies or [...]

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How to Cut and Punch Paper in Photoshop to Make Digital Scrapbook Pages

by Debbie Hodge Since the launch of the Scrapbook Coach series, I’ve gotten great feedback and questions. One thing asked by several is about cutting digital papers in Photoshop to make a page. Oftentimes when we start a new hobby–like Digital Scrapbooking–it’s hard to find the how-tos for the most basic things. Those teaching us [...]

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TLS008 Scrapbooking Process Video: Making An Easter Page

by Debbie Hodge When I began this page I knew that I wanted to make a page that included lots of buttons and pretty bits in a profusion alongside two photos from the Easter Table. I started with two same-sized photos. It took me a bit of time to figure out that I needed to [...]

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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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TLS007: Make a Scrapbook Page | Finding Your Story

by Debbie Hodge In this scrapbooking process video, see a page made from start to finish. The process begins with my desire  to scrapbook a pretty photo and includes my efforts to make the page go beyond pretty — with a photo and journaling that add meaning.  Find more story techniques in Tension, Story, Focus [...]

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Ideas for Painterly Techniques and Looks on Scrapbook Pages

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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10 Ways to Scrapbook Like Anna Aspnes

by Debbie Hodge Each issue of Masterful Scrapbook Design now includes “style lifting” guides. These guides include sketches, templates, and analysis that make it possible for you to get the look of each of our teachers on your own pages. Copying successful designs is a great way to grow and develop your own style. Check out [...]

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Study Digital Scrapbook Pages for Ideas and How-tos | Out of the Frame + Texture

layout by Deborah Wagner Want to get started with digital scrapbooking but trying to make sense of just how it’s done? In this series of articles we show you a digital scrapbook page and then connect the dots between the elements on the page and the Photoshop techniques that were used to create them. Deborah’s family [...]

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TLS006: Evoke a mood on your scrapbook page: keep product, photo and inspiration in sync (Video)

by Debbie Hodge See a page made from start to finish, beginning with the new products in my stash, finding photos that match in tone, and then using an inspiration piece to guide placement of elements on the page. The inspiration piece for this scrapbook page is a photography by Vicki Dvorak/Simply Hue. Thanks to Vicki [...]

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TLS005: Scrapbooking 2-Pagers Means Allocating Space and Creating Groupings (Video)

by Debbie Hodge See a page made from start to finish beginning with a series of photos from my blog. I used logical groupings, figured out how much space I’d need for journaling and then found a spot for my title. Resources: Digital supplies: You Are Here, An Additional Very Small Alpha by Allison Pennington; Meadowlark, [...]

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