Journaling

Journaling can add a special touch to you layout and will help you remembering those details that would be otherwise lost. I am now working on a project where I am scrapbooking pictures that are up to ten years old. There are instances when I have a hard time even remembering where I took that particular shot...       

• It could be as little as just one word to introduce the page (Laugh, Sing, Family, Grandchildren, etc…) or a more substantial text, with a basic description of the event (who, where, when) or it can be a all story. You can print it with a computer or handwrite with a nice pencil (after checking  the dimension on a piece of scrap paper).
• You can use alphabet tiles, stickers with words, or magnetic poetry… 
  
•  You can use quotations, poems, lyrics…
•  The classic 5: Who, What, When, Where, Why
• Quote a conversation : she said, he said

To print on a label or a piece of patterned paper

1. Verify against a light or a window that it fits in the label, 
2. Attach the label on top of the printed area with light glue or removable tape and 
3. Run it back into the printer with the same paper.   

·         Journaling can be written on a tag, empty music sheet, notes page with the broken border, doylies, journaling stamps, journaling templates, memory cards, music paper, between large parentheses…

·         Dictionary or thesaurus: definitions can be used for journaling and a thesaurus is helpful when seeking different words to describe an event (www.dictionary.com and www.thesaurus.com). If you find a cheap thesaurus (1 dolalr at Dollar store) you can cut definition form it and glue them to the layout.

·        you can journal all around the border of the layout, making a frame out of it.

·         Journaling can be hidden behind large pictures, tack into tags, behind a large tag swinging through a brad, behind a gatefold design (two flaps folded to meet in the center, made from a cardstock piece twice the final length, a pocket form an old pair of pants…. depending on how mcuh private you want to make them

·         Words in isolation: action verbs  in different tenses (embarked - pushed - climbing – flying),  adjectives and adverbs  (bright - breezy - fresh - exciting – exhausting -eager - driven - free – fulfilled - high - far - gently - independently – alone), nouns (niece - seven-year-old - second grader - future aviator), proper nouns, places and dates (John – Green Lake Park - Monday, March 8, 2011), pronouns (she - herself - I - someone – many) prepositions (up - above - with - toward – into).

·         Use the name of the person in the picture as an acrostic.