|
|
Post by grammadee on May 23, 2016 2:53:38 GMT
Got an email the other day from Debbie Hodge over at Get It Scrapped. One of the blog articles she highlighted was focused on getting more journaling on each page. Six ideas to create more room for journaling.
So how DO you tell your story on a scrapbook page?
Do you include a journaling spot? Add comments in random places on the page? Write the message on the back of the page? Cut strips for your journaling? Do you type your story, or do you use your own handwriting?
And what do you say? Do you do a quick 5WH of the photo or event? Talk about your feelings either at the time of the photo or when you are scrapping it? Do you write your journaling TO someone in the photo? Or is it ABOUT those people?
Do you quote other people--either famous people, or the people in your photo? Include conversations? Do a Q&A or a He said--She said kind of presentation?
And for a challenge: try a page where you START with the story you want to tell, and then gather the photos &/or embellies and papers to support that story.
Here's hoping you live happily ever after! |
|
|
|
Post by nitad on May 23, 2016 8:05:42 GMT
Well, normally I'm not great at journaling but it just so happens tonight I worked on a page that was definitely a story I wanted told. It's not even a photo anyone in my family took which is also a first for me. LOL. NASA took the photo! I'm sorry the pic didn't turn out great but the papers are quite dark and I took it with my old 4S iPhone. When DS was young I always said "Love you to the moon and back" at bedtime which I'm sure a lot of moms do. He always countered with "love you to Pluto and back" to say he loved me more. When this "Pluto sends her love" picture went up last July he sent it to me. He's 28 now and it literally brought tears to my eyes. Attachments:
|
|
|
|
Post by grammadee on May 23, 2016 11:53:34 GMT
What a great story, nitad ! So cool that your ds sent you this photo. No wonder it is a favorite! I like how you used the bracket shape for your journaling. TFS. |
|
|
|
Post by Linda on May 23, 2016 12:00:07 GMT
nitad - love the story and the page! so sweet! I usually type my journalling on the computer - makes it easier to format it to fit the space I have available but I do try and hand journal occasionally
|
|
mjmone
Full Member
Posts: 441
Jul 3, 2014 2:58:29 GMT
|
Post by mjmone on May 23, 2016 13:42:21 GMT
I don't journal very much, need to journal more. IF I do it is usually a handwritten line or 2 about what is going on and what the pic represents. On a tag or a journal card. Actually did one on Saturday...a pic of my dd's dog who just got spit up on by their baby. She was standing in the wrong place at the wrong time.  I like today's challenge. Was able to do a couple more on Saturday. But my point and shoot crapped out..so will post some pics later. |
|
|
|
Post by grammadee on May 23, 2016 14:54:21 GMT
Thanks for sharing your page, myboysnme and your approach to journaling. It takes real courage to scrap the not-so-good stuff, and to tell the WHOLE story. |
|
|
|
Post by Linda on May 23, 2016 15:19:12 GMT
Thanks for sharing your page, myboysnme and your approach to journaling. It takes real courage to scrap the not-so-good stuff, and to tell the WHOLE story. I agree - thank you myboysnme |
|
|
|
Post by myboysnme on May 23, 2016 15:55:58 GMT
Thank you, grammadee and linda. I don't actually find a pool stick sticker or title the page "The Day My Dad got Drunk." It's just part of the journalling! I've always heard people say, "Write what you would say if you were talking about the photo." Depending on the audience I might not say it to everyone, but I would be thinking it. I find that once I write it, it seems much more distant and less hurtful; more like a fact than an emotion. There is a photo of my grandmother holding my mom as an infant. She wrote on the back, "I went through hell for Shirley." They always had a tough relationship, and that hurts my mom to this day. I feel as though if my grandmother had written in a scrapbook,"I went through hell for Shirley. I was young and had no idea what it would be like to have a baby. It was so hard. But she was perfect and worth everything I went through." That could have changed their whole relationship, or at least how my mom thinks of her mother now, at age 81. That's why I try to be succinctly honest in my journalling but I always try to show that I got through whatever it was. |
|
|
|
Post by grammadee on May 23, 2016 19:20:13 GMT
That's why I try to be succinctly honest in my journalling but I always try to show that I got through whatever it was. ITA. I always want to end on the note that although it was hard, we survived. Maybe we learned something. Maybe it called up virtues we didn't even know we had. Easier to do when talking about something that happened a while ago. But it still takes courage, and tact. Thanks so much for giving these examples! |
|
|
|
Post by nitad on May 23, 2016 20:44:15 GMT
myboysnme you seem like someone who has lots of courage and inner strength. I applaud you for such truthful story telling. The closest thing I have had to scrapping in that way is just some bittersweet memories of people who are gone now. Like the picture of my Mom just days before she died holding her first grandchild who she only got to meet because he arrived 6 weeks early. Well, and maybe a couple about some difficult times raising a boy! LOL. I think it is important to tell some of our imperfect stories as long as they are presented in as much of a positive light asthey can and not anything that is trying to lay blame or hurt. These stories will be around for awhile and you don't want them to have a negative influence on those who will see them down the road. Like the photo of your Mom & her Mom - it probably wasn't what she meant at all but a couple positive words could have made a difference at some point. I want people to see my pages and see me and what I cherish about this completely imperfect life I live.
|
|
|
|
Post by myboysnme on May 23, 2016 22:04:44 GMT
I think it is important to tell some of our imperfect stories as long as they are presented in as much of a positive light asthey can and not anything that is trying to lay blame or hurt. These stories will be around for awhile and you don't want them to have a negative influence on those who will see them down the road. I want people to see my pages and see me and what I cherish about this completely imperfect life I live. This is well said. I try to just put the information in the journalling matter of factly. One layout I did I called 'the saddest day', and it was my dad packing the car to leave us, which we didn't know at the time. I did have it rough sometimes and for me it is ingenuine to act like everything was a blast! But there are many nice memories recorded to offset the few more 'honest' ones. Reminds me of the Ancestry shows where they uncover something nefarious. Anyway, your page has inspired me to do a page for my boys entitled, "I love you googleplex wasalabeem." One of the two of them made that up when they were little and we still say it when they are grown! |
|
|
|
Post by nitad on May 23, 2016 22:41:39 GMT
googleplex wasalabeem....love it!! might just steal it! LOL |
|
|
|
Post by nitad on May 23, 2016 22:42:12 GMT
well that quote part didn't work .... but you get the drift! HAHAHA
|
|
|
|
Post by justjac on May 24, 2016 0:51:02 GMT
nitad I love your story! myboysnme Great job documenting your truths. I journal in many different ways. Almost exclusively I use my handwriting. I try to include at least the date. I journal on spots, on strips, around the photos, straight on the background. LOAD has got me doing way more journal heavy layouts than I usually do.
|
|
|
|
Post by LisaDV on May 24, 2016 2:53:43 GMT
Do you include a journaling spot? Add comments in random places on the page? Write the message on the back of the page? Cut strips for your journaling? Do you type your story, or do you use your own handwriting? YES, to all of the above - depends upon the page And what do you say? Do you do a quick 5WH of the photo or event? Talk about your feelings either at the time of the photo or when you are scrapping it? Do you write your journaling TO someone in the photo? Or is it ABOUT those people? Depends upon if there is a story involved or not. Sometimes it's who. Other times I know of the story, but just start typing out everything I can think of about the photo, what's going on, how I'm feeling. I generally find that my story and title emerge from this. Sometimes it is completely opposite of what I thought. Sometimes if it's multiple photos I find that I'll be doing several pages to tell the different stories that emerged. I think I tend to write about people, but try to change it to write to them, but often forget. Do you quote other people--either famous people, or the people in your photo? Include conversations? Do a Q&A or a He said--She said kind of presentation? Yes to all. |
|
|
|
Post by refugeepea on May 24, 2016 3:15:51 GMT
I use my own handwriting and usually add the who, what, where, and when at the bottom of a photo. Like the captions you see under photos in a newspaper. I'm not good at long-winded journaling without it sounding contrived or too sappy, so I stick to the facts.
I have put quotes on pages before because it sounds better than what I would say and it's summarized nicely.
|
|
|
|
Post by refugeepea on May 24, 2016 3:21:24 GMT
That's why I try to be succinctly honest in my journalling but I always try to show that I got through whatever it was. ITA. I always want to end on the note that although it was hard, we survived. Maybe we learned something. Maybe it called up virtues we didn't even know we had. Easier to do when talking about something that happened a while ago. But it still takes courage, and tact. Thanks so much for giving these examples! I have a hard time doing sad pages. Even if there was a lesson learned, I fixate too much on the bad memories. So my scrapbooks are full of mostly good things. I also have a hard time with people knowing everything about my life. I wouldn't mind doing one book that was just for *me* to look at, that had the bad things too. |
|
|
|
Post by LavenderLayoutLady on May 24, 2016 11:07:22 GMT
So how DO you tell your story on a scrapbook page?
Do you include a journaling spot? Add comments in random places on the page? Write the message on the back of the page? Cut strips for your journaling? Do you type your story, or do you use your own handwriting? I've done all of these. I've even done super hidden journalling, writing my heart & soul out, then painting over it. And what do you say? Do you do a quick 5WH of the photo or event? Talk about your feelings either at the time of the photo or when you are scrapping it? Do you write your journaling TO someone in the photo? Or is it ABOUT those people? I used to feel like I had to have a lot of journaling. Now I just write what I feel like writing. If the bare basics covers it, I'm good. Do you quote other people--either famous people, or the people in your photo? Include conversations? Do a Q&A or a He said--She said kind of presentation? I love using quotes. And music lyrics. Makes it easier, ya know? Sometimes someone else already said it better than I ever could. |
|
