If journaling is your least favorite part of the scrapbooking process, make it more exciting by creating a custom journaling spot. It’s easy when you use an accent as a template, like Laura Vegas did in creating the flower shape on this page from Scrapbooking Tips & Tricks: Tools & Techniques.
To create your custom journaling spots, follow these steps:
1. Trace the shape onto your desired color of cardstock. Cut out.
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2. Mat the cutout shape on a contrasting color of cardstock.
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3. Introduce a third color by finding a way to embellish the outer edge of your shape, such as the blue petals here, making sure to leave plenty of room for journaling.
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Try creating your own custom shape today! You can upload your finished layout into the Club CK gallery to share your work with other blog readers. (Learn how to upload to the gallery here.) Then leave a comment below with the URL link to your uploaded page so other readers can see your project.
If you have other ways you like to create custom journaling spots, leave a comment as well to share your great idea!
—Brittany Beattie, online senior editor
I love this technique, suns are so fun!! What fabulous photos on the LO!
I do a lot of handwritten journaling on my pages.
Much of it is the traditional style-in journaling blocks, but sometimes, I let my imagination get the better of me by “journal doodling” around pictures (framing the pic with the journaling) or journal doodling and linking elements on a page. I’ll layout my elements (photos, embellishments, etc.) and then pencil in swirls around the page and use the swirls as a line for my journaling (Make sure you go back and erase your outlines). I often use a white pen (uni-ball Signo is the best) to journal on darker paper. Sometimes the journaling takes the form of outlining large flower petals, but then they can also be words in the shape of a petal. I like to surprise people who look at my scrapbooks when they discover what looks like a graphic is actually journaling.
Great idea! I linked to your tutorial in today’s scrapbook news article at http://exm.nr/cfHAMf
Super page Laura, love the journal spot idea! TFS!
I love this idea. I have a few journal block stamps and this would make them go farther.
Such a cute journaling spot you’ve shown here. Love the colors!