Scrapbooking Ideas & Layout Design
Don't let your photos have hazy stories. Use scrapbooking ideas, writing prompts, design how for your scrapbook layouts.
Each month artist and Copic instructor Michelle Houghton looks at a particular medium and one or more ways to help you add this medium to your scrapbook layouts, as artists from the Creative Team at Get It Scrapped add inspiration to fuel your imagination and get you scrapping. Last month I explored using Gelatos to […]
Faber Castell Gelatos are great for watercolor techniques and Michelle Houghton gives you step-by-step instructions for your own gelatos art creations. by Michelle Houghton Do you enjoy buying all the new mediums to add to your layouts? Have a basket of them but not quite sure how to use them yet? Sometimes it’s hard to find […]
By Dina Wakley I love contrast. If you want a page element to be powerful, contrast it with its opposite and you have mega-impact. Contrast is what makes a piece of art surprising, or interesting, or even just plain good. Contrast is essentially the use of opposites on the same piece of art. Opposites used together […]
By Dina Wakley I always say that one of the reasons I love art journaling is that there are no rules. Anything goes. You can do what you want. The process of putting paint on the page is more important than the finished outcome. So, why care about composition? I firmly believe there’s value and […]
Love spray ink? Wish you knew more about spray ink? Or are you just looking for some examples of spray ink projects? Begin with Dina Wakley’s video tutorial and then check out the links for other online spray-ink how-tos as well as several spray-ink projects. Spray-ink video tutorial with Dina Wakley This video tutorial shares […]
by Michelle Houghton Sometimes, for something fun and different, I like to write my journaling in shapes—not just in a circle but spiraling around the edge of a circle or other shape. It isn’t practical for reading—the reader always ends up upside down and backward trying to read around the loops—but it adds a fun […]
by Michelle Houghton OK, I love these little guys! I love the frame the circle creates around my journaling. Circles will come in at the end of the steps but grab a scrap piece of paper first and do some practicing. You know what I’m going to say: “Get your elbow off the table.” With […]
by Amy Kingsford I have always been fascinated with old books . . . the smell, the worn edges, the discolored and torn pages all seem to hold a certain history that should never be discarded. Every year, though, libraries, bookstores and schools discard millions of books–leading me to believe that we are coming to […]
Do you art journal? Are you wondering if you might like art journaling? Maybe you’ve heard about keeping a visual diary and it’s piqued your interest. Or . . . maybe you’re wondering just what these so-called art and visual journals or diaries actually are. Take a little time to stroll through the links below […]
by Dina Wakley Using Brushstrokes Inspired by van Gogh Van Gogh’s directional brushstrokes are a visual force. What you don’t realize about van Gogh’s work until you stand in front of it at a museum is that the paintings are more than just visual. They have a tangible texture that moves the eye. They have […]