8 Ideas for Embellishing Scrapbook Pages with Circles
Boundaries, protection, infinity, the circular nature of time . . . Circles are not only a great shape visually; they come freighted with meaning you can use to support page subject. And one more...
View ArticleFont Tricks for Making Scrapbook Page Titles
Using fonts to make titles on paper and digital scrapbook pages can be a time- and money-saver. While tracking down and using new and interesting fonts can be a fun and effective approach, there’s...
View ArticleIdeas for Using Short Titles on Scrapbook Pages
A good title connects your photos to their story. One-word titles are clear and direct, often labeling your topic and even pointing the way to deeper meaning. What’s more, they offer great design...
View Article9 Embellishing Perk-ups for Your Scrapbook Page Titles
While a scrapbook page title isn’t essential, other times a few emphasized words can go a long way toward immediately conveying page subject, setting tone, and even cueing deeper page themes and...
View ArticleIdeas for Oversized Embellishments on Scrapbook Pages
Embellishments are those details on a page that do things like add charm, deepen meaning, and guide the eye. It’s the photos and/or the story we’re told should be most important. Every now and then,...
View ArticleIdeas for Scrapbook Page Embellishment Clusters
by Debbie Hodge Making embellishment clusters is a great way to have fun with product, incorporate meaningful images, add repetitions and interest to the page and draw the viewer’s eye to the focal...
View ArticleIdeas for Long Titles on Scrapbook Pages
by Debbie Hodge Titles can do more than label a page. They can cue the page subject, enhance page design, draw the viewer right on into the journaling, and just plain dazzle. Take a look at long...
View ArticleMeme Trends and Old Photos
by Tami Taylor Richard Dawkins originated the concept of “meme” (short for the Greek mimeme, “to imitate”) as a way to explain the spread of ideas and cultural phenomena. He cited melodies,...
View ArticleGo-to Embellishing Approaches Make Scrapbooking Easier
by Debbie Hodge Knowing what you’re good at and what you like makes getting scrapbook pages made easier. Know what your masteries and aesthetic preferences are and work them. See how our team and...
View ArticleIdeas for Creating Scrapbook Pages with Elements from Book Pages
by Debbie Hodge As more of us read books on electronic devices, the actual paper page takes on an aspect of nostalgia — and of the treasured! Book pages for making art are available in digital forms,...
View Article6 Scrapbooking Ideas for Telling Your Story with High-Impact Type Treatments
Type makes language visible, and is an important tool for telling scrapbook page stories. Read on for scrapbooking ideas to combine alphas, typefaces, word meaning, color, and size to create both a...
View ArticleIdeas for Using Botanical Patterns on Scrapbook Layouts
Botanical and zoological prints have an old-fashioned look that fits well with many scrapbook layout subjects–and that just looks beautiful as you’ll see in the scrapbooking ideas here. Illustrations...
View ArticleScrapbooking Ideas for Including Memorabilia on Layouts about Entertaining
Whether the next get together you host is a big party or a small family celebration, keep an eye out for memorabilia to scrapbook with the photos. Shopping lists, menus, invitations, and guest lists...
View ArticleScrapbooking Ideas for Recording a Top 10 Round-Up of Current Culture
Record the times you are living in with a scrapbook page that zooms in on a particular cultural aspect of the past year. Consider what was on your radar in 2013 and how it got. Think about the items...
View ArticleScrapbooking Ideas for Layered Photo Treatments
Photos are a key part of most scrapbook layouts, and the selection and cropping of them is an early step in the making of a scrapbook page. If you’re looking for new looks, consider photo layering. The...
View ArticleScrapbooking Ideas for Overprint Techniques
We found great scrapbooking ideas –and a product and technique challenge for you–from something we spotted in print materials like posters and packaging: overprinting. This is the process, in...
View ArticleScrapbooking Ideas Inspired by Doris Sander’s Layouts
Studying scrapbook pages by others is a great way to get scrapbooking ideas for growing your own style. In this “study” look at how the other scrapbooker has used product and design principles and how...
View Article5 Motif Ideas for the Scrapbook Page
We frequently share scrapbooking ideas about the use of patterns and motifs at Get It Scrapped. Here’s a closer look at five recent motif articles. Follow the links below to team members’ personal...
View ArticleBuild Your Own Suite of Favorite Fonts for Scrapbook Page Titles
Text is a great tool for telling stories on the scrapbook page–both because of the content you can include and because the typeface used to render it can tell a story. A typeface has a personality....
View ArticleIdeas for Scrapbook Page Storytelling with a Curated Natural History Style
“Curating” is a word being used frequently nowadays — bloggers are advised to curate content their readers are interested in, and home decorators are “curating” or collecting pieces that give their...
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