6 Ways to Create More Room for Journaling on Your Scrapbook Pages | Get It ScrappedArranging photos, journaling, titlework and embellishments onto your canvas is one of the primary tasks of making a scrapbook page. That task gets tougher when you’ve got lots of journaling. Check out these six ways to make room for your journaling.

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1. Use “newspaper-style” columns.

Summer Fullerton says, “This layout is the story of my inability to fish. It has become a slight obsession of mine, and during our last camping trip we pulled out all the stops, and we still couldn’t get a nibble.”

“I don’t often make single-photo layouts–unless my layout is story driven. This layout falls into this category. By typing my journaling I was able to select a font and size it to fit my available space. This layout is designed around the large journaling block. I wasn’t completely sold on the idea of using a large photo until I went to lay all my pieces in place.”

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Failure is Not an Option by Summer Fullerton | from the Get It Scrapped Membership class Layout.

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Put journaling in multiple spots.

Devra Hunt says, “The day we arrived in our new home, I expected our son to be confused and upset. Instead, I found him curious about his new surroundings and content to have his things around him.”

“This layout tells this story as a whole, but each photo has its own story. I used journal spots around the page to tell details about some of the photos.”

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Home Is Where My Stuff Is by Devra Hunt | Supplies: Patterned Papers, stickers, chipboard-Basic Grey, flair-Fancy Pants, Freckled Fawn, Acrylic shapes, journal spots-Freckled Fawn, alphas-American Crafts, Basic Grey, pen and adhesive-EK Success, sketch inspired by-Scrapbook Generation

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Journal on top of your photos.

Kelly Prang says, “I found photos of each of my children as babies and wanted to document their cute little baby faces.  I converted the top two photos to black-and-white to match the bottom photo, which was taken with black-and-white film.”

“To document which child was in each photo, along with ages and photo dates, I added the text directly to the photos, themselves.”

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You’ve got the cutest little baby face by Kelly Prang| Supplies: Scrapbook Coach 10 for Get it Scrapped-template; Digi Scrap Parade collaboration for February 2016- Its the Little Things- papers and elements; Memory Pocket Monthly- Lili- Daily Life Stamps; Allison Pennington- Charm- elements; Charmed- alpha- white square alpha; Grow- Alpha: green/black square alpha; Viewpoint- Val Wibbens-acrylic alpha; Dani Mogstad- ephemera, ticket; Ju Kneipp- My Sunshine- lace butterfly, Truly Madly Deeply- paper bits; Tracy Martin- Sugartown-doily; CC-Bluebird-library card; L. Murphy-Lifetime-stamp; Vinnie Pierce- The Rise-stamp; M. Bennett-In the Garden Digi Scrap Parade- wooden paper; Gina Miller- Sewing Table- stitches; Fonts: Andalusia (title)and Bohemian Typewriter (journaling)

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Layer pages of text over top of one another.

Sian Fair says, “This is a page about our family treasure chest and the old account books I found inside it.”

“I had so much text to include, I decided the only way I could fit it in would be to layer pages of text one over the other, three times, as if to mimic decorative folds of patterned paper.”

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Treasure Box by Sian Fair | Supplies: Treasure Box by Sian Fair Patterned Paper: Basic Grey, Shimelle for American Crafts; Alpha: simple Stories; Journaling card: Gossamer Blue; Clear Sticker: Crate Paper; Diecuts and stickers: Jen Hadfield, Crate Paper

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5. Use text paths to create a specific space and shape for your journaling.

Stefanie Semple says, “This page is about our trip to Bird Island – a nature excursion of note.”

“I started my layout with a template, which allowed me to use a large photo as a background and a second detailed photo surrounded by a text path and minimal embellishing to give an overview of our outing. A text path can be made in Photoshop–and there are plenty of these paths to buy in digital scrapbooking stores. This page is shaped in a spiral.”

More Room for Journaling on Your Scrapbook Pages | Stefanie Semple | Get It Scrapped

Cape Gannets by Stefanie Semple. Sara Gleason: Stated; Joey Lynn Designs: Template Tuesday No 33; One Little Bird Shadow Styles; Charmbox Studios: Resize for web action

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6. Journal around the edge of your page.

Celeste Smith says, “As I walk into work each morning, I pass the beginning of the Wallace Stephens Walk, and I’ve scrapbooked that view here.”

“To record the story I placed all of my journaling around the edges of the page. There is a lot more room along the edge than you might imagine. I also appreciate how it leaves lots of white space near my photo grouping.”

More Room for Journaling on Your Scrapbook Pages | Celeste Smith | Get It Scrapped

13 by Celeste Smith | Supplies: Sahin Designs:Work Day Bundle, Back to Basics Labels, Back to Basic Clips, and Wood Chip Alpha; Font: TW Cen MT.