journaling ideas

Most of the time, our layouts are about the photos. That is why we scrapbook, right? To show off our lives and our kids through photos -- preserving history. But, occasionally I find it fun to do a layout http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifof journaling only. It might seem boring, but in years to come, I bet I will spend more time looking and reading these pages than glancing at those photo pages I spent hours on.

However, I don't have time to sit and fill up a 12x12 page with journaling? So, what do I do? Copy and paste, my friend. How many of you blog? How many of you are on facebook? How many of you right e-mails to friends or family members? Take some of these and copy them into a word document. Print them out onto acid-free cardstock and make a layout of them!





This is a great way to use up those random letters that you have left over from all those alphabets -- I use up paper that I might not ordinarily use for a photo layout. When people are looking through my scrapbooks, these are always the pages they stop and read. I'd never submit any of them for publication -- I maybe spend 15 minutes on a page -- but they are preserving history! And, that, my friends, it what this is all about!