Successful page designers break it all down,
and you apply their proven design approaches to your own work.

Details on current “Make It Mean” issue/class.
Details on 2013 at Masterful Scrapbook Design.

Top 10 Details (starts January 9)

Guest teachers Anna Aspnes, Lisa Dickinson, Amanda Jones, Krista Sahlin and Dina Wakley share top product and technique choices, photo treatments, approaches to journaling, layout, titlework and embellishing. Get tips and ideas for your own pages and find out why these approaches are favored and what makes them great for scrapbook pages that record your stories.

Includes seminar with 60+ annotated layouts, 5 “style guides” and layered templates with sketches, 100+ pages of articles on the focus topic, 5 live and recorded interviews with guest teachers, and 4 live and recorded office hours sessions (8+ hours of video/audio). Seminar is great for viewing on e-devices.

Oomph & Polish Details (starts March 6)

Guest teachers Lisa Dickinson, Leah Farquharson, Corrie Jones, Doris Sander, and Celeste Smith (along with Tami, Amy, and myself) have made pages that show you our “secret sauce” when it comes to finishing a page, and our approaches to getting polished and highly appealing looks through attention to dimension, layering, theme, customizing elements, using pattern and more.

Includes seminar with 60+ annotated layouts, 5 “style guides” and layered templates with sketches, 100+ pages of articles on the focus topic, 5 live and recorded interviews with guest teachers, and 4 live and recorded office hours sessions (8+ hours of video and audio). Seminar is great for viewing on e-devices.

Make It Mean Details (starts May 1)

You learn to make scrapbook pages that go deeper than the surface details, beginning with journaling and titles that go beyond the obvious in both their content and rendering. Paula Gilarde, Betsy Sammarco, Emily Pitts, Amber Ries, and Kim Watson show you how to work with all 5 senses, how to incorporate voice, explore character, and leverage motif, pattern, color and photo treatments to make enduring records of your life.

Includes seminar with 60+ annotated layouts, 5 “style guides” and layered templates with sketches, 100+ pages of articles on the focus topic, 5 live and recorded interviews with guest teachers, and 4 live and recorded office hours sessions.

Grids & Blocks Details (starts July 3)

Grids provide both opportunities and challenges. This month Lisa Dickinson, Tiffany Tillman, Doris Sander, Summer Fullerton, and Lynnette Penacho show you how to work with both to make pages that are well designed and anything but boring. Find out how a grid structure can underlie both linear and clustered designs. See how to take the “grid” beyond a basic 3 by 3 design.

Tension Details (starts September 4)

Tension is an important element in making something beautiful. Consider the good guy and the bad guy in fiction; vertical columns supporting curves in architecture; hard movements combined with flowing movements in dance. Find out how get tension on the scrapbook page. Teachers are Corrie Jones, Dina Wakley, Anna Aspnes, Emily Pitts and Doris Sander.

Color Details (starts November 6)

You know the basics of color – schemes, emotional and cultural associations, mixing in gallon, quart, pint quantities. Now find out how to put that knowledge to work to make pages that pop, set tone, charm, tell your stories.