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how much information do you put about your pictures? Do you go in details to describe your layout or only enough to describe your pics leaving out some of the more personal memories.

For me, it depends on the layout. I always put the date. Usually, I also put the place or occasion. If it is a very special memory, I try to do some journaling about how I was feeling or what made it so special.

Well, if it's a fabulous personal memory, or just a funny story about the people in the photo, I'm going to need it all down. Most of my scrapbooking is driven by my own feelings about people or events though, so not a lot of details go into the journaling.

On the page... Heck I tell all. I want my kids to know what happened even after I'm gone. Not just another random picture mom took again Sometimes its just a letter to them. Or sometimes its stats of what they are like at that age.
Now journaling about my photo when I upload I keep short and simple. Figure people are wanting to look at my layout not read a story on why I made the layout

I am 'brand new' to this journaling thing, but I must say I like my layouts MUCH better with journaling on them! Maybe I'm just feeling chatty lately, but what used to be the part I dread, I now look forward to, and somehow the words are just flowing onto the page (hopefully that will continue). **knocks on wood**

I'm not really journaling about the specific moments in each picture. Especially since I take a lot of random pics or pics from photo shoots of the kids. (I find I enjoy the occasions like holidays, b-days, etc. much more when I'm not hovering over everyone with a camera and I can participate in whatever is going on).

For now, I'm just trying to find something meaningful that I want the kids to know to put on the pages.

It really depends on the page and the picture. Sometimes I put a lot, and sometimes just a little bit. I do journal on every single page. I had to train myself to do it though, and it wasn't easy.

anazelia wrote:It really depends on the page and the picture. Sometimes I put a lot, and sometimes just a little bit. I do journal on every single page. I had to train myself to do it though, and it wasn't easy.

I vary too, depending on my layout and what I want to convey. Sometimes jsut a brief thought, sometimes more in depth. I try to at least note on the back the date of the picture as well as the date I scrapped it...since I jump around so much in my scrapping.

I go from just a date to the whole story. If it's something that I don't want everyone to read, I'll hide the it. For me, the whole scrapbooking thing is really about the stories. I want to be able to share the stories with my girls even when I'm no longer here.

Thank you for sharing girls...I also put a story or just a date.


I have trouble with the journaling, sometimes I want it typed and sometimes I handwrite it. I wish I was a little more creative, is the same square piece of paper or cardstock.

It depends. If there are several pages that go with one subject, such as going to the zoo, I may skip a few pages and put very little journaling. But if there is something that stands out, I write alot. And I even have gotten very personal on some pages. If some day my family is going thru these old books of mine, I want them to know what I was feeling at that moment in time. I do try to always date the page though.

To me, journaling can be anything from a short blurb about a photo/event or a long story.

Yep, it all depends on the layout..some have a ton of journaling; some have very little. Others just a title and date.

Actually, it depends of the mood I'm in and the time I have. I would love to journal each page in detail, but that doesn't always happen. If I'm doing paper scrapping, I tend to journal more than when I'm digi scrapping. If I'm making a scrapbook for someone else, then I will include more journaling.

It really depends on the "feeling" of my layout. If I just have a cute photo I want to scrap, I usually just put a name and date. If the photos tell a story, then I tell the whole story

I don't feel the need to describe the layout - just what was going on behind the scenes if the pictures don't tell the story.

I am mostly now doing scrapbooks for the grands and I tell about how I felt about things in the pictures - things I'd want them to be able to tell their kids about.

Journaling is personal to each person. It reflects for whom you are making these...reminding them of memories...but is also for the future...giving them the stories that would not be available otherwise.
It's one of those "to each her own" type of things...is my opinion.

milmomma wrote:On the page... Heck I tell all. I want my kids to know what happened even after I'm gone. Not just another random picture mom took again Sometimes its just a letter to them. Or sometimes its stats of what they are like at that age.
Now journaling about my photo when I upload I keep short and simple. Figure people are wanting to look at my layout not read a story on why I made the layout

Ditto