We tell you that its important to journal on your layouts, add poems, quotes etc to make your pages more interesting. There are many ways to incorporated journaling into your layouts without the traditional white space with writing on it. I thought that I would give you a few ideas to get you started on getting creative with new ways to add your journaling.
Lets start with journaling around the edges of the layout page. Dark paper is no excuse a good white writing pen will solve that problem. I like to repeat a quote around the edges of the page or if the name of a person or even the event. A poem is great, but make sure you have enough to finish around the edges or can repeat it if you are looking to put it all the way around the edge. Use a edge when you are writing to ensure straightness and also be neat! Its a cool decorative edge to your pages and you can make it part of your journaling as well.
How about High lighting part of your journaling. Use a photo square or do the first word of your journaling with a decorative die cut letter. I like to sometimes use a altered stencil for my first letter of my journaling just to add a little interest.
Just a couple of ideas to think about when your trying to make your journaling interesting. If you are like me the more glitz the better!
Article by
Debbie Ruggles
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Sunday, November 9, 2008
Signing your work
So Picasso always signed his and so did Rembrandt. So why not you?
Yes your pages are a piece of art and so it deserves your signature. After all you put all that work into it and the pages shine with your creativity. I bet a piece of your personality went into each and every page. Some scrappers are framing their work and hanging on them on their walls instead of pictures.
So how to sign your work.
It should be with a scrapbook safe pen. You can sign them on the front somewhere if you prefer or on the back. I personally sign mine on the back. Mine are signed just as I write my name. Debbie Ruggles. I even sign the back of my kids layouts that way. That way when someone finds my books in about a few hundred years they will be able to know who signed them.
Yep I can see these books tucked away in some Attic somewhere because family couldn't get rid of them. After all they are family history and you can't just throw that away.
Then again what do we do with them all. So nicely tucked away for safe keeping they will be. Someday someone will find them and see how interesting they are and wonder who made the books. If they happen to take them out they will find my signature nicely on the back of them.
Please sign those layouts, they are yours, you spent the time to make them for yourself, or someone special, so why not let the future know how talented their relatives were.
Not to mention you are giving them a sample of your handwritting, which is always important!
Article by:
Debbie Ruggles
Yes your pages are a piece of art and so it deserves your signature. After all you put all that work into it and the pages shine with your creativity. I bet a piece of your personality went into each and every page. Some scrappers are framing their work and hanging on them on their walls instead of pictures.
So how to sign your work.
It should be with a scrapbook safe pen. You can sign them on the front somewhere if you prefer or on the back. I personally sign mine on the back. Mine are signed just as I write my name. Debbie Ruggles. I even sign the back of my kids layouts that way. That way when someone finds my books in about a few hundred years they will be able to know who signed them.
Yep I can see these books tucked away in some Attic somewhere because family couldn't get rid of them. After all they are family history and you can't just throw that away.
Then again what do we do with them all. So nicely tucked away for safe keeping they will be. Someday someone will find them and see how interesting they are and wonder who made the books. If they happen to take them out they will find my signature nicely on the back of them.
Please sign those layouts, they are yours, you spent the time to make them for yourself, or someone special, so why not let the future know how talented their relatives were.
Not to mention you are giving them a sample of your handwritting, which is always important!
Article by:
Debbie Ruggles
Friday, October 24, 2008
Scary times ahead
Now its time for those little devils, ghost and gouls to come out and play! Time will soon be here when we hand out all that candy and send them home to their mothers. I thought this month I would hand you a bunch of saying and quotes for your halloween layouts that I think you might be making here in the next little while!Here are a few quotes:
-Eat, drink and be scary
-Where there is no imagination there is no horror. ~Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.
-Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story. ~Mason Cooley
A couple Poems:
On Halloween the thing you must do
Is pretend that nothing can frighten you
And if somethin' scares you and you want to run
Just let on like it's Hallowe'en fun.~Author Unknown
May Jack-o-lanterns burning bright
Of soft and golden hue
Pierce through the future’s veil and show
What fate now holds for you.~Author Unknown
Some Phrases:
-Monster Mash
-Eat Drink and be SCARY
-Just Scaring up some fun
-Chills and Thrills
-Ghosts have real spirit
-Whitchful Thinking
Have fun with this fun time.
Oh and Happy Haunted Scrapping
Friday, September 19, 2008
Its about Family and Friends
Titles are important for our layouts. Sometimes it pretty hard to come up with a great title for your layout. So this month I thought that we would just give you some of our favorite quotes and titles to help out with those layouts you are about to tackle during the winter months.
Here they are
Family Moments
Family Ties
Family Friends
Family Life
Thankful for Family
Special Times
Forever Family
Full House
Forever Friends
Friends Turned Family
Family Friends
One Big Happy Family
Family Gathering
Recipe for Family
Grandma Knows Best
Grandpa Knows Best
Cousins
Cozy Cousins
Kissing Cousins
Kindred Spirits
Yours Mine and Ours
Brother Like No Other
Sisters by Chance, Friends by Choice
Part of the Clan
Fathers And Sons
Mothers and Daughters
Generations
Circle of Love
Some of our Favorite Quotes:
A family is like a warm quilt wrapped around your heart
Having some place to go is home. Having someone to love is family. Having both is a blessing
Friends are our chosen family.
A Family is a Work of Heart.
Other things may change us, but we start and end with Family.
Happiness is being with Family
Best Buddies are We, My Brother and Me!
Sisters, like stars in the sky, shine a light on each other's hopes and dreams.
Hopefully these will give you some inspiration for your pages.
Happy Winter Scrapping
Here they are
Family Moments
Family Ties
Family Friends
Family Life
Thankful for Family
Special Times
Forever Family
Full House
Forever Friends
Friends Turned Family
Family Friends
One Big Happy Family
Family Gathering
Recipe for Family
Grandma Knows Best
Grandpa Knows Best
Cousins
Cozy Cousins
Kissing Cousins
Kindred Spirits
Yours Mine and Ours
Brother Like No Other
Sisters by Chance, Friends by Choice
Part of the Clan
Fathers And Sons
Mothers and Daughters
Generations
Circle of Love
Some of our Favorite Quotes:
A family is like a warm quilt wrapped around your heart
Having some place to go is home. Having someone to love is family. Having both is a blessing
Friends are our chosen family.
A Family is a Work of Heart.
Other things may change us, but we start and end with Family.
Happiness is being with Family
Best Buddies are We, My Brother and Me!
Sisters, like stars in the sky, shine a light on each other's hopes and dreams.
Hopefully these will give you some inspiration for your pages.
Happy Winter Scrapping
Friday, August 15, 2008
Journaling Prescription
A prescription for journaling. What are we talking about?
We have heard it many times, "Journaling is hard for me, I really don't know what to write"
It can be hard to start, but once you get a handle on it, your pictures just seems to write the journaling all by themselves.
Lets look at the whole journaling issue.
We are told to journal the pages according to the pictures. What about the before the picture and even after the picture. Or the trip to get the picture? Lots of the story can be wasted if we just write about that one little picture. Say you have a picture of your child sitting on a rock by the lake and you put a title that says something like, a beautiful day, memories etc. So lets say that this was part of a great day, a spur of the moment outing that ended with a picture taken a dusk by the lake. How about the rest of the story behind the picture.
Now for Debbie's prescription for Journaling. I thought about this for a while.
There is definately the Who, What, When and Where journaling rule, but there is also other things that apply with the whole journaling idea. Things that you can use to make the journaling part much easier. So lets see if I can try and map them out, or give you my prescription to heal your journaling slump!
1. Memoriabila: Yep keep those theatre tickets or amusement park passes, programs. They make a great ways to add journaling to your layout. Remember the where and when. They usually have a date and a time and a place, and the event you went to. These things are awesome to work into a layout.
2. Use a list or calendar. Timeline once again. Its great to list out the places you seen or the things you did on your vacation etc.
3. Reciepts, certificates, etc. Remember the first drivers license? So you got the real thing, the permit is a great thing to put in your scrapbook, or how about the trip to get your license, driving test receipts etc. These things are all perfect ideas to add to your pages to help define the journaling crunch.
Camping trips can include the receipt from the campgrounds. They usually have a logo on them. Water parks the same, so keep a look out for things you can use.
4.Keep those Christmas lists, or Birthday lists your children create: These are the best things to look back on when doing a Holiday layout. Don't throw these away, incorporate them in your scrapbooking. They ususally have their name on them, a list of the presents they want and their own handwritting. These are great!
There it is a my prescription to make journaling easier. Don't forget to include the basics, but look around and see what else there is that you can incorporate into a layout.
Its great to put some of these things on your layouts. Don't be afraid of a crumpled up note your child gave to you or even one of those cards they create just because. Believe me in 20 years will be so glad you kept them and safely stored them in your scrapbooks.
Journal, Journal and More Journaling. The more you do it the better you become!
Article by:
Debbie Ruggles
We have heard it many times, "Journaling is hard for me, I really don't know what to write"
It can be hard to start, but once you get a handle on it, your pictures just seems to write the journaling all by themselves.
Lets look at the whole journaling issue.
We are told to journal the pages according to the pictures. What about the before the picture and even after the picture. Or the trip to get the picture? Lots of the story can be wasted if we just write about that one little picture. Say you have a picture of your child sitting on a rock by the lake and you put a title that says something like, a beautiful day, memories etc. So lets say that this was part of a great day, a spur of the moment outing that ended with a picture taken a dusk by the lake. How about the rest of the story behind the picture.
Now for Debbie's prescription for Journaling. I thought about this for a while.
There is definately the Who, What, When and Where journaling rule, but there is also other things that apply with the whole journaling idea. Things that you can use to make the journaling part much easier. So lets see if I can try and map them out, or give you my prescription to heal your journaling slump!
1. Memoriabila: Yep keep those theatre tickets or amusement park passes, programs. They make a great ways to add journaling to your layout. Remember the where and when. They usually have a date and a time and a place, and the event you went to. These things are awesome to work into a layout.
2. Use a list or calendar. Timeline once again. Its great to list out the places you seen or the things you did on your vacation etc.
3. Reciepts, certificates, etc. Remember the first drivers license? So you got the real thing, the permit is a great thing to put in your scrapbook, or how about the trip to get your license, driving test receipts etc. These things are all perfect ideas to add to your pages to help define the journaling crunch.
Camping trips can include the receipt from the campgrounds. They usually have a logo on them. Water parks the same, so keep a look out for things you can use.
4.Keep those Christmas lists, or Birthday lists your children create: These are the best things to look back on when doing a Holiday layout. Don't throw these away, incorporate them in your scrapbooking. They ususally have their name on them, a list of the presents they want and their own handwritting. These are great!
There it is a my prescription to make journaling easier. Don't forget to include the basics, but look around and see what else there is that you can incorporate into a layout.
Its great to put some of these things on your layouts. Don't be afraid of a crumpled up note your child gave to you or even one of those cards they create just because. Believe me in 20 years will be so glad you kept them and safely stored them in your scrapbooks.
Journal, Journal and More Journaling. The more you do it the better you become!
Article by:
Debbie Ruggles
Saturday, July 19, 2008
Write? What you talking about?
Many scrappers don't put any details on their pages than those that they can obtain from some letter stickers or a title. For most of us we don't have the perfect handwriting. I know myself that if I just go for it and begin to write I find my writing going downhill. Sometimes it just looks sloppy no matter how I careful I try to be about having good penmanship. I know that I am not alone with this one, so I thought that a good article for the Journaling page would be one that would highlight some great tips to help make it more "comfortable" to add your own handwriting in your pages.
Here is a easy one that will just give you a little bit of your handwriting on your pages. Start with the date. Remember you can always write it on a tag or a separate piece of card stock. With that in mind don't be afraid that you are going to ruin your layout with your ugly handwriting. You can try it, and if it doesn't look good enough to adorn your page, just throw it away. No damage done!
Another tip I have is to use the same technique, by that I mean a separate piece of card stock. Use a ruler for your guide. Now if you don't think you can keep the ruler straight on a the paper, then using a pencil make a very faint line and go ahead and write your message with your pen then just erase the line. Believe me if you make the pencil very faint you won't even know that you have used a line as your guide.
One more tip. Think about hidden journaling. I love this. Leave a special handwritten message behind a photo. Can't go wrong with this one. The fact that its hidden should give you the confidence to just write your message and slip it behind your photo. Remember its hidden so all is fine for the first look at your page. Then you leave a great hidden message for the future to reveal and read. What a romantic idea!
Simple things make the difference. Scrapbooking isn't all about how "Pretty" the page looks its also about the specialness that you add with your own little sentimental touches. One of those being your very own handwriting.
Good ahead and try some of these. Add you to your pages by writing up a little bit of journaling to leave behind for generations to come! After all isn't that what its about? Leaving our memories to share with someone else. Those special little messages will probably be talked about by people that aren't even born yet. Who knows what will happen with your books. They might become a great historical piece of work proudly displayed in a museum somewhere. So how about that story telling with your own handwriting. Think about how special that will be in the pages you worked so hard and took such care in creating! Remember its just another part of what makes you a scrap artist!
Would love to hear any tips you may have about Scrap Journaling and your techniques. If you have some to share email them to me at debbie@accents2scrapbooking.com and I will be glad to share them with everyone!
Journal by
Debbie Ruggles
Here is a easy one that will just give you a little bit of your handwriting on your pages. Start with the date. Remember you can always write it on a tag or a separate piece of card stock. With that in mind don't be afraid that you are going to ruin your layout with your ugly handwriting. You can try it, and if it doesn't look good enough to adorn your page, just throw it away. No damage done!
Another tip I have is to use the same technique, by that I mean a separate piece of card stock. Use a ruler for your guide. Now if you don't think you can keep the ruler straight on a the paper, then using a pencil make a very faint line and go ahead and write your message with your pen then just erase the line. Believe me if you make the pencil very faint you won't even know that you have used a line as your guide.
One more tip. Think about hidden journaling. I love this. Leave a special handwritten message behind a photo. Can't go wrong with this one. The fact that its hidden should give you the confidence to just write your message and slip it behind your photo. Remember its hidden so all is fine for the first look at your page. Then you leave a great hidden message for the future to reveal and read. What a romantic idea!
Simple things make the difference. Scrapbooking isn't all about how "Pretty" the page looks its also about the specialness that you add with your own little sentimental touches. One of those being your very own handwriting.
Good ahead and try some of these. Add you to your pages by writing up a little bit of journaling to leave behind for generations to come! After all isn't that what its about? Leaving our memories to share with someone else. Those special little messages will probably be talked about by people that aren't even born yet. Who knows what will happen with your books. They might become a great historical piece of work proudly displayed in a museum somewhere. So how about that story telling with your own handwriting. Think about how special that will be in the pages you worked so hard and took such care in creating! Remember its just another part of what makes you a scrap artist!
Would love to hear any tips you may have about Scrap Journaling and your techniques. If you have some to share email them to me at debbie@accents2scrapbooking.com and I will be glad to share them with everyone!
Journal by
Debbie Ruggles
Sunday, June 29, 2008
Journaling About Me!
Yeah you!
Why not tell about the person behind the camera? After all you are part of your families history.
My grammy is 95 years old. Just turned that as a matter of fact. She has never really told me or my other family members to much about her life. It would be sooooo interesting to just know a little piece or two about her childhood and how things were like way back when!
Ok if your are like me, well I haven't done to much with myself but I have started to do some. I started and "About Me" album. Its mostly my journal with some pictures. I have also started to do some layouts of myself and incorporate them into my family albums. When I look back there really aren't to many pictures of ME in there.
I know you hate the camera. Me to, but lets face facts, you deserve to be put in that book. How are the future generations going to know about their great, great grandmother or grandpa if you don't add yourself to the history. Start out journaling your first page, make it a likes and dislike page, or perhaps a sentimental journaling page about your life and the important parts in it. Remember finding out you were going to have a baby, and then having one! Remember what it was like as a teenager falling in love.
Then take on some childhood photos. Get into the highschool and then your Graduation. How about attempting some of those wedding photos and perhaps the ones when you were pregnant with your kids. Get those photos out of hiding and start making them part of the family history. We all hate how we look, but I tell you there will be a generation that will think you are absolutely beautiful. They will also be grateful they have something to look at.
I look back at the couple photos I have of my Grandma and I am amazed at how beautiful she was. I can sure see why Grandpa went after her. I just wish there were some journaling of a long, wonderful like to go with them. I know there is a story to tell, I just don't have any words from her to write down about it. Don't keep your life a secret from your future generations. Give them amazing story of your life, add a few photos and I know they will be intriqued by how you lived and what you did in your life.
How to get it started? Well just sit right down and start taking a few notes. Write down things from your childhood you would like to write about to put in your book. Just make notes, they don't have to be ten pages, just a quick note about a time from your past.
Here is an example. I remember our reunions from whene we were little. I can even remember the smell of the pot luck luncheon in the hall. The reunion was totally packed with all kinds of relatives that I had no clue who they were. I just knew they would always talk about how big we were all getting. Now from there I can take it a step further later, but its a passing memory and I jotted in my notebook for future use!
Keep jotting things down and then go on a search and see if your parents or relatives have any photos of the times. Don't worry if they say they do but they won't part with them. Say thats ok I can just scan them in and print them off later! After this point your are ready to begin to think about that scrapbook layout about a time from your past. Remember to bring the memory back to life and use descriptive words in your journaling to add to the details. Don't worry about it being to long because in 100 years there won't be any of it long enough for the reader!
I would love to hear your comments about this one. Email any ideas you have about doing layouts journaling your past. I would love to share some with our readers in the future.
email them to debbie@accents2scrapbooking.com
Article by
Debbie Ruggles
Why not tell about the person behind the camera? After all you are part of your families history.
My grammy is 95 years old. Just turned that as a matter of fact. She has never really told me or my other family members to much about her life. It would be sooooo interesting to just know a little piece or two about her childhood and how things were like way back when!
Ok if your are like me, well I haven't done to much with myself but I have started to do some. I started and "About Me" album. Its mostly my journal with some pictures. I have also started to do some layouts of myself and incorporate them into my family albums. When I look back there really aren't to many pictures of ME in there.
I know you hate the camera. Me to, but lets face facts, you deserve to be put in that book. How are the future generations going to know about their great, great grandmother or grandpa if you don't add yourself to the history. Start out journaling your first page, make it a likes and dislike page, or perhaps a sentimental journaling page about your life and the important parts in it. Remember finding out you were going to have a baby, and then having one! Remember what it was like as a teenager falling in love.
Then take on some childhood photos. Get into the highschool and then your Graduation. How about attempting some of those wedding photos and perhaps the ones when you were pregnant with your kids. Get those photos out of hiding and start making them part of the family history. We all hate how we look, but I tell you there will be a generation that will think you are absolutely beautiful. They will also be grateful they have something to look at.
I look back at the couple photos I have of my Grandma and I am amazed at how beautiful she was. I can sure see why Grandpa went after her. I just wish there were some journaling of a long, wonderful like to go with them. I know there is a story to tell, I just don't have any words from her to write down about it. Don't keep your life a secret from your future generations. Give them amazing story of your life, add a few photos and I know they will be intriqued by how you lived and what you did in your life.
How to get it started? Well just sit right down and start taking a few notes. Write down things from your childhood you would like to write about to put in your book. Just make notes, they don't have to be ten pages, just a quick note about a time from your past.
Here is an example. I remember our reunions from whene we were little. I can even remember the smell of the pot luck luncheon in the hall. The reunion was totally packed with all kinds of relatives that I had no clue who they were. I just knew they would always talk about how big we were all getting. Now from there I can take it a step further later, but its a passing memory and I jotted in my notebook for future use!
Keep jotting things down and then go on a search and see if your parents or relatives have any photos of the times. Don't worry if they say they do but they won't part with them. Say thats ok I can just scan them in and print them off later! After this point your are ready to begin to think about that scrapbook layout about a time from your past. Remember to bring the memory back to life and use descriptive words in your journaling to add to the details. Don't worry about it being to long because in 100 years there won't be any of it long enough for the reader!
I would love to hear your comments about this one. Email any ideas you have about doing layouts journaling your past. I would love to share some with our readers in the future.
email them to debbie@accents2scrapbooking.com
Article by
Debbie Ruggles
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