Journaling is one of the major ways that scrapbooks are different from photo albums.
Adding words to your scrapbooks help to tell the story behind the picture. There are several ways to add words to your scrapbook pages.
One way to journal is through premade words and phrases. You can find stickers, diecuts and word cutouts, rub ons, all with different phrases. You can also use alphabet sets to create words on your pages.
Others enjoy writing in their albums. If you are going to write on the pages, choose an ink color that that works with the color theme of your page. You can write directly on the pages, or you can write on paper and then attach the paper to your scrapbook page.
How much, or how little you journal is completely up to you. Sometimes you may just want a date or year, in other cases you will want names of people or places. And some times you may want to write more to tell the story.
It really depends on why you are making the album, who the album is for and what information you want to add with your photos that will determine how much journaling you’ll do.
You can also type out your messages, using interesting fonts, on acid free paper, cut it out and then add it to the page.
Another technique used with journaling to cut shapes; ovals, hearts etc. and then journal on those pieces of paper and then attach to the scrapbook page.
There is no right or wrong way to journal. The idea is to have something written to tell the story of your photos.
