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Your scrapbooking-layout-idea - How to Journal for Scrapbooking Author: Karen Messitt

Well, you've done it again; made a beautiful layout. You'rereally happy with your design; you love the photo, and now comesthe part you dread: Journaling.

Scrapbooking magazines are full of layouts where the heartfelt,poignant journaling just seems to fit perfectly with thephotos...and yet when you come to do it..you have scrappersblock!! I know how you feel. I have albums full of layouts withsimply a title. I still feel that I prefer some of them likethat, but there are lots where I wanted to write somethingspecial, and just didn't know how to start. Here is a scrapbooking-layout-idea

Well it's easy...once you know how. Forget about being cheesy,and long winded poems. Journaling is designed to say somethingto someone. Once you've decided who you are talking to its easy.

Who is the album for? Who will be reading it in years to come?What do you want them to feel when they look at your layouts?

Once I addressed these questions, journaling became a walk inthe park. I do mainly albums for my kids, so I talk to them inmy journaling, the same way I speak to them day to day. If Iwrote flowery love letters to them, they wouldn't recognize itas my voice. I jot them notes; what happened, how funny it was,how wonderful these simple moments were in our lives. I speak tothem in journaling as the adults they will become, about how Ifelt during their childhood so that when they have theirchildren they can say "yes Mum, I feel that too" Journalling ofa day at the beach may simply be " Jason, you thought you werethe bees knees when you finally stood up on your little plasticsurfboard..As usual Sam, you stayed close to your littlebrother, always protecting him. I'm so proud of the love youhave for one another". See...simple!! Here is a scrapbooking-layout-idea

If you still feel too exposed by putting any personal sentimentson paper for anyone to read, why not do what I do for privatemessages: simply do them in the form of a letter that you canfold and put on your layout in an envelope, or under a tag. Thatway only the person for whom the message is intended will readit. Here is a scrapbooking-layout-idea

I still don't journal every single layout, and don't let thejournaling police make you feel like you have to!! But I amespecially proud of the layouts I have done where I have beenable to really communicate a feeling to someone. In years tocome, long after I am gone, I'll bet that these are the pagesthat my children will come back to again and again.!! Here is a scrapbooking-layout-idea

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