Terrific Journaling Tips

Capture summer memories using handwritten messages from your kids.

Female: Scrapbooking is so much fun and always needs an excuse to get out glue out and paper cutters, but if you ever do need a little extra push, I've got the perfect incentive. Kid: Mommy, where were you born? Mommy: I was born in David, Tennessee. Kid2: Who are you married to? Mommy: I am married to your grandfather, Jim. Kid3: When was your real birthday? Mommy: October the 17th. Kid3: Who is your own father? Mommy: My father is, his name was Ray. Female: His four grandsons are making a summer scrapbook about their grandma. It’s a fun way to learn about a time gone by and at the same time journal precious memories of a wonderful summer. Now we set them up with a clear frame and journaling pages. These clear frames are just great to work with and you can see they come in lots of styles and sizes. And each one of them comes with a clear guide that you use to place on the photo so that you can see exactly where we need to mark with a pen around the edges. And then you would go back and trim out the photo and place this into the clear frame to create this really terrific page. Then we’ll go back. We would set it inside the frame and you're beginning to get a wonderful page right there. And look over here, the journaling, I love that the boys did it in their own handwriting or their own printing. Now this is David, so if you look before me, you can see that there is this pad that’s perfect for this. Perfect for journaling for younger children who are really using this style of paper. And these tabs are uses a way to identify the journaling with the children’s initials. So this is David’s, so I'm going to take the D that I've already pulled out. And I love these tabs are self adhesive. So I'm going to take, and Dave has made a mistake here, he calls it his boobers. So I'm going to use the tab to cover up that little boober and put the D for David. And notice that the top, it’s actually, we went back with a scoring tool and we did a little bit of a scoring so that once this is positioned down and fastened with adhesive, it’s real easy to pull this up and do each of the pages. And you can place the initials all the way in if you're trying to cover a mistake or you can leave them on the outside if there is no mistake there to cover. A grandmother scrapbook, now you’ll always know what these grand kids did last summer.