By now, perhaps you’ve spent some time experimenting with fonts. That means it’s time to really think about journaling. For many of us, journaling is one of the most difficult parts of putting a scrapbook page together, digital or traditional. Yet it sometimes is one of the most important parts of the layout. It lets others know why you made the page. Coupled with your photos, or perhaps even with no photos, journaling allows you to tell meaningful stories. And…
Good shadowing is perhaps the most important element in digital scrapbooking. If you want your digital layouts to have the same dimensional look as paper layouts, proper shadowing is key. If you are new to digital scrapbooking, I hope to give you some basic pointers to get you started. I also hope that you “seasoned” scrappers will pick up a few new tips here or there. Over the years more than a handful of people have asked me how I…
Have you ever flipped through some of your mom’s old recipes and just loved seeing her handwriting on those cards? Do you cherish seeing your dad’s handwriting on letters he sent to mom? Do you ever want to leave your own legacy in your scrapbooks that make them even more personal? Keeping our memories through scrapbooking is one of the main reasons that most people scrapbook. But the written word in our journaling can be just as visually powerful as…
Journaling in our digital layouts is often a hit or miss issue for a lot of us. If you’ve read my “Tell Your Story” post from back in March of 2023, you already know how I feel about journaling. I readily admit that I truly was not a good story teller in my early days of scrapping. These days I occasionally find myself looking at a layout and having trouble finding just the right spot to easily add text and…
If you read last week’s post you know I had a rough start to my year and have been working on trying to attain a “better” outer glow. That really has nothing to do with this post. But it is odd that once again the universe guided me to the amazing quote in the featured image at the very top of this post. And after last week, you should now also know a few things about dealing with an inner…