Lets get the story straight!

Creating the perfect story!

Journaling goes right along with making that perfect scrapbooking page. I have said it a hundred times that if you don't identify the people, place, time and event, who the heck is going to know in a hundred years? It is so important to take the moment and keep it all together witht he perfect journaling about the page.Lets look at how you can accomplish some of this.You journaling needs to correspond with the photos.

Dates can be found in the corner of your photos, so be careful when cropping them. These are always a great way to put the date into your layouts. Remember if you need to put a date somewhere you can always use a date stamp. Love those things!

Remember to tell about the people in the layout. There are many ways to do this. If you don't want to plaster the names all over your layout try putting them in a hidden journaling box tucked under a photo mat. Or how about on a tag. There are many ways to add the names without cluttering your layout.As for the journaling the event.

There are some great ways to accomplish this.you can sit in front of a computer and whip off the journaling, or perhaps you can write something about each picture around the photo mat. Use sticker or titles to display the event. Cut out letters, or use letter stickers to give one word titles for events.

However you journal doesn't matter, you just need to do some on each layout. Think about all those old pictures we see in old albums. That is exactly just what they are, pictures in a old album.

It is always great to turn one of those old photos over and see names and dates written on the back. Now think about your scrapbooks, I know I hardly ever date anything on the back of the photos. So getting mine in a scrapbook with some good journaling keeps them in date and the memories preserved in my albums. Remember how important journaling is to your layouts. To me its just not a completed project until I see some on my layouts.

Article written by:Debbie Ruggles