The layouts I'm sharing in this post today were sent to me by Nadia Cannizzo.
Nadia responded to my original post on journaling. She is new to scrapping and had thought that not journaling was a trend, seeing as the magazines don't carry many layouts with journaling.
She went on to say that she still writes her essays on her pages "just in case my kids want to know something specific and i'm not around or i have forgotten". Yep yep yep. *nodding*
So, is not journaling a trend? Are we creating layouts these days more for the creativity? Are our scrapbook albums more akin to decorative photo albums? What do you think?
I think that sometimes it's just plain HARD to add the journaling. Sometimes it's hard to think of the words. Sometimes we don't think that our handwriting is "good enough". And sometimes the logistics of typing up our words onto a 12x12 scrapbooking page is problematic. Digi scrappers write a whole lot more. I think maybe it's easier to add it. And with digi, if you mess up your words you have a back space button.
How do I journal? I usually journal straight onto the background of my page. I rule pencil lines on my layout to fill the space where I want my journaling to go. This gives me a sense of whether the page is going to be balanced with the addition of the journaling. I write my journaling lightly in pencil first and, once I'm happy with it, I write over the top in pen and rub out the pencil. If I use a 2B pencil, it usually erases pretty well.
OK, enough rambling from me. Thanks for sharing your pages with us Nadia :).
Happy Fathers Day to the dads out there!
Kathie
4 comments:
Well I love the way you journal on your pages, you have a knack for choosing the perfect words and placement...not to mention the awesome handwriting ;)
The magazines are definitely trending towards single photo layouts with minimal journalling...for whatever reasons that may be.
Personally, having been scrapbooking for quite a few years now, my focus is even more on telling stories now, moreso than making 'perfect' looking pages....and having fun, sometimes experimenting, while I'm doing it.
It's an each to there own thing though, not everyone feels comfortable writing and that's cool.
Hi Kathie, thanks for including my pages. I appreciate it. I agree with Tatum...the more i scrap the more it is about the story than the layout. Sometimes when i make something that i want to look pretty i will add just a title..but...why do i scrap? Because i wish i had something...anything...from my mum when she was my age and raising us kids. I ask her and she tells me, but its not the same. Thanks again Kathie...your journaling and words ALWAYS inspire me.
I am a "journaler" too Kathie (not that I have done a layout in the LONNNNNNNGEST time) because I want my children and grandchildren to know what my thoughts and memories were when they hopefully look through my layouts in years to come.
I have the luury of being able to type on my LOs too being an "A4 scrapper" and I love using my "old school" typewriter sometimes, that a friend picked up for me at an op shop a few years ago.
Thank you for such an interesting topic and for sharing Nadia's gorgeous LOs
Hope you are all well and happy xo
thanks Kathie and Nadia. I love to journal and have never been bothered by what my hand writing looks like, why shoul i, its a part of me. and yes nod, nod as well.Cant say that i have ever typed on a page something else to put on my never ending to do list.
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