A layout for paperHaus. It's all about the journaling.

Hi everyone! It's Trina here. I hope you're having a fabulous start to the week! Christmas is getting closer and with it alot of stress but also alot of fun! And that's what I had with a few of my scrapbooking buddies this weekend. It's all in the layout below. And the journaling tells a wonderful story which will remind me of this day for years to come.

Journaling, for some it's hard, others not so. I have always loved to journal on my scrapbook pages. I don't find it a chore, and in fact I often have journaling on the BACK of my layouts when the asthetics on the front don't allow it. It's funny because my husband and I were discussing this the other day and he said it was one of the things he loved most about my pages.

But journaling doesn't always have to be the same. You can change it up. And that's what I've done in this layout.

Ok, so it doesn't look too different does it? But the difference here is that all the people in the photo created the journaling.

I was creating this layout at a special Xmas Crop for Scrapfest by the Sea. A luxury weekend retreat I and a friend are running in NZ next year. Anyway, we were having a fabulous time, chatting, laughing, eating, and using skype to call our sister party being held in another part of NZ at the same time. It was fabulous. I decided that as I hadn't worked out what photo I'd be using on the layout, I'd take one and use that. This layout could be Scrapfest through and through.

And that's when the idea hit. We all make up the journaling.

The ladies decided they wanted to have the journaling typed (chickens! grin) and so they called out what they wanted to say and I typed it. I printed it and tada. A fabulous story about a fabulous day written by a group of fabulous women.
From there, it was easy to finish off the layout. A few Prima flowers, a gorgeous Prima resin angel (just like us ladies! Grin), and of course the photo.

Did you notice how I've cut the photo into a scalloped shape? I did this to add some interest and help it blend into the rest of the layout - lots of gorgeous layers of similar shapes. 

I know it's not always possible to do what I've done. But the good part is that even if your friends aren't around you, you can email/text/message them and get their point of view.

I dare you to do something different with your journaling on your next layout.

Trina.

Comments

[Judy]

Such a beautiful layout full of gorgeous colours and details!

[Denise Spicer-Boyes]

shame about the placement of the watermark on the page LOL!!!

[mandyb]

so pretty