by Debbie Hodge What do you do when you want to get lots of photos onto your single-page layout AND you’ve got a good bit of journaling to add? Here are 4 ideas for pulling it off –even when you think there isn’t any room. 1. Use longer text lines Longer text lines can be harder [...]
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Finding Room for Journaling on Scrapbook Pages with Lots of Photos
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Keep a 5 Year Journal – Daily Prompts and Steps for Getting Started
by Tami Taylor What’s a 5 year Journal? That was my question when I first heard of it. (Ok, my first question was “five years??” Stick with me, though, it’s relatively painless. I promise.) A five year journal is, just as it sounds, a journal you keep for five years. You write just one line every [...]
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How 1 Set of Photos Inspired 3 Scrapbook Page Stories
by Doris Sander The saying goes “a picture is worth a thousand words.” And I could not agree more! I often say that photos speak to me. I know this sounds a bit odd, but let me explain what I mean by that comment. As a scrapbooker, one of the ultimate joys in my life [...]
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5 Ways to Get Computer-Printed Journaling On Your Paper Scrapbook Pages
By Paula Gilarde If you’re not a big fan of your own handwriting, or if you just prefer the look of typed journaling, here are 5 ways to get computer printed journaling onto your scrapbook pages–without a wide-format printer. 1. Use printed tags or journaling spots. Pre-printed tags or journaling spots don’t have to be [...]
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How to get computer-printed scrapbook journaling onto decorative tags
By Paula Gilarde I like adding computer-printed journaling to my paper scrapbook pages. I frequently use strips or journaling blocks, but I also like to use decorative journaling spots and tags. While it can be a little trickier to add printed journaling, it’s not impossible. Here are a few tips to get you started. 1. Measure [...]
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Story Forms for Scrapbook Pages: Tell a Journey Story
The “journey” is the oldest story form known. Journey stories are in the bible, children’s storybooks, and Greek myths. The journey story is one in which your subject leaves home on a “journey” and returns transformed. The journey can be a true trip or a more figurative journey of the spirit. It can take place in [...]
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The Art of Conversation: Transform Your Scrapbook Journaling Through Dialogue
by Myra Cherchio One of the simplest, yet most engaging ways to transform journaling into a colorful and vibrant story is through dialogue. Incorporating words of others, along with your own, captures the nuances in your relationships and adds richness to your stories. Over the years, I have documented dozens of conversations. In many of [...]
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Scrapbooking with Perspective: your place in someone else’s life
by Debbie Hodge This is the second in a series on scrapbooking pages with perspective. The first article in this series (Consider opposing points of view) introduces this idea and shares one way to do this. Here is yet another approach. Think about the bigger picture of your subject’s life – move beyond how it [...]
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Scrapbooking pages with perspective: consider opposing points of view
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. -Jane Austen in Pride and Prejudice, 1813 Source: Reading Copy Book Blog Jane Austen understood it The beauty of the opening line to Pride and Prejudice (above) is that it plays with [...]
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Tips for writing about yourself on scrapbook pages
Making scrapbook pages about yourself is an awesome thing to give to friends, family AND yourself. Scrap YOUR Story is a series of 11 lessons that are available free in our classroom. “All about me” scrapbook pages are going to require some journaling—some writing about yourself. And that’s not always easy. Read on for tips [...]
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