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[KBeachy]

Do you journal on your pages? I looked through the gallery and saw mostly layouts with one or two pictures on them with lots of embellishments. Is that how all your pages look? I just don't see any journaling and was wondering.

[lilkoala3]

 I journal on ALL of my layouts, but that's my style.  Journaling comes easy to me, and I think it's necessary for me to tell my story most of the time.  The pictures are usually not enough for me - I have to write about the funny details, the places, how I felt, etc...  I guess it depends on why people scrapbook.  I scrapbook to preserve stories.  I know many people scrapbook purely for the artistic outlet. 

[SarahA]

 I never did much when I first started, but now I decided when I'm deadsy, Quinn is not going to remember the story of her first playhouse when she was one, so I better write it down! So now, I don't write a whole novel, but I do write more than I ever used to.

[KBeachy]

 I journal on ALL of my layouts, but that's my style.  Journaling comes easy to me, and I think it's necessary for me to tell my story most of the time.  The pictures are usually not enough for me - I have to write about the funny details, the places, how I felt, etc...  I guess it depends on why people scrapbook.  I scrapbook to preserve stories.  I know many people scrapbook purely for the artistic outlet. 

That's why I scrapbook too...the preserve all the memories from my life to share with my children or friends years from now. I journal on everything too. I don't think pictures are enough.

[craftyfool]

 I journal in my head...can't you SEE that?

Sigh.  In other words, I have big plans to journal and some day I'm going to sit down and add it to most of my LOs.  I really should make it a rule that I can't post it till it's journaled, then maybe I'll do it.

Like Sarah said...one day my kids won't know what's stored in dear ol' mum's brain. 

(btw Sarah...love the word "deadsy"!!)

[koala1966]

There are plenty of layouts in the gallery with journaling on them, and even more with hidden journaling (so you'll never know). 

For me, whether I journal on a page or just put names and dates really depends on my page - a lot of times I've already told the stories on other earlier pages, and when I get to my "extra" pictures that I still want to scrap but no longer have any pressure about telling a story then I concentrate more on design, etc.  Usually I do my story layouts first, then after I get through an event, vacation, etc I move on to use the rest of the pictures for non-story purposes.  It's hard to see that when you're looking at individual layouts in the gallery rather than albums in someone's home.

[Beth-W]

 I try to journal on most of my pages.  If the photos tell the story without journaling, then I don't include it.  I think it depends on the scrapper.  Also, some people do hidden journaling.

[scrapinoz]

 I try and journal on most pages, even if it is just the basics.. who, what, when etc

[Henu_Nea]

 I also journal on most of my layouts. I love to write and will sometimes have the journaling written before I've thought about the LO.

[deerewife]

 I journal on most of my pages unless the title says it all - which is rare.

[CarlaB72]

I will journal on the page, on a hidden tag or I will make a card and
mount my pic to the front  and hide the journalling that way.  I would
say that 99.9% of my pages have journalling.

[bellaconsmom]

I try to add journaling, a weak spot of mine.  I usually write the basic- people, place, date, occasion.  Sometimes, if I post a layout in the gallery, I add the journaling afterwards.

[dianagirly]

 I usually attach journaling to the back of my paper pages. Mainly it's because I don't have room on a page to tell an entire story.

[MOM2SNOX]

 I hardly, if ever, journal.  If I do journal, it's a few brief words or it's hidden.

[chattyscrapper]

 Hi. It depends on the photos for me.. Sometimes i will write a lot.. other times, just a date and location, maybe the names of the people in the pics will be fine.

[GRACEpunches5]

 hardly ever do i journal...and i really should start. but, i hate my handwritting!

[Kimandasmo]

 alot of my journaling is hidden...sometimes it just makes the page flow better...but I do journal on most every layout.

[sarahwhithers]

 I'm an on again off again journaler. haha. Some pages have it and some don't. I'm really not good at journaling, so I find it hard to put down words I'd be happy with.

[imwickedwitch]

 I journal on most all of my layouts.  Some do, some don't.  It's all good!

[scrapy1967]

 I hardly ever journal if I do it is just a name or date. Journaling is hard for me.