Bruce the Chef

By: Tom Ambrozewicz

Scrapbooking is a fun pastime, but don’t lose sight of the main goal
any scrapbooker is trying to achieve: to produce a quality product that
can be shown to friends and family and eventually passed on to future
generations to provide a record of your life. Therefore, one of the
most important steps to creating any page is the journaling.
Unfortunately, this is also one of the most forgotten steps. Journaling
is important because it is a written record of what is happening in the
pictures for people who weren’t there or don’t know you.

I like to begin by creating a title for each page. This can be
something simple and straightforward, such as "Mom and Dad’s 50th
Anniversary" or it can be creative, heartwarming, or funny. Think of
your page as a story and then name it. Use big bold letters for the
title to draw attention to it, but make sure it does not overwhelm the
most important elements of the page-the pictures.

Each picture on your page should have a few words as a caption. Name
the people and/or places photographed; although it may seem obvious to
you right now, you may not be able to remember names when you look at
your album 20 years from now. Others who do not know all of your
friends will also benefit from these labels. Captions should be small
elements on the page, and occasionally two similar pictures will not
each need a caption.

Work a block of text into your page design. I like to keep this text
around the same size as the smallest photograph, but of course this
depends on the page layout. Many pre-made layouts will already include
a space for text. Use this element of the design to record the "story"
behind the pictures. Pretend you are looking at your photographs with a
friend-what would you say as he or she flipped through the pictures?
All of this information is readily forgotten, so it is important to jot
down a few words on a piece of notebook paper and save it with your
photographs if you think that you won’t get the chance to create your
pages right away. Always include a date if relevant, because as time
goes on, the years run together.

Occasionally you may forget your camera at an important event, lose
your pictures, or not be allowed to use a camera in the space. Whatever
the case may be, if you don’t have photographs of an important event in
your life, you can still create a beautiful scrapbook page to document
the day. These pages will be mostly journaling. Use descriptive words
to take the place of the photographs.

If you have a fear of hand-writing, don’t let that stop your from
journaling. Letter stickers or cutouts provide fun options for titles.
For smaller letters, you may be able to trade skills with someone who
had trouble with something that you can do, such as cropping. I tend to
believe that personal handwriting, even if it is not perfect, give the
page character. A final option is to use your computer to print out the
journaling elements on your page. However you choose to do it,
journaling is one step in the scrapbook process that needs to be
important to help create a first-class album.

About the Author:

Tom Ambrozewicz is one of the pioneers in using breakthrough audio technology on his web sites. You can read, you can listen to professional narrator reading to you or having MP3 files ready to download if you hate to keep printed files. You can check all scrapbooking tips at Ask-How.info now.

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