Scrapbook Journal Writing...Making it Easier

I have been working hard to complete my scrapbook pages.  I finished another album last week.  I love completing the last page in the album...I feel like I have accomplished something.  The picture below is of the last two albums that I have completed.  Both albums contain almost one entire year of photos.  

 Anyway, on to the scrapbook journal writing part of the post...  I have never been good at writing in my scrapbooks.  I don't like my handwriting and I often forget to print something that I have written until I am almost finished with the page.  I used this idea when I was working on 1 or 2 past albums and it was really helpful so I decided to do it again with the new album that I am about to start working on.

This is the way that I find it easiest to get a good journal entry onto your scrapbook pages...
1st - organize your photos and divide them into the pages/layouts that you will be working on.  I put all of my photos into the page sleeve in the album that I am working on.  I currently have pictures slipped into the page sleeves of my general family album from March through July.  That will be about 25 individual page layouts.

2nd - Take your album (with the the pictures in each page) to the computer with you and start typing away.  I  started at the 1st page in the album.  If you have a story that you want to tell or something important that you need to document journal about it.  I didn't write something for every layout.  Some pages don't need any writing and others do.  Everything I wrote was short and to the point (about 2-6 sentences) because most people looking at your albums won't read anything longer than that.  Once you have completed the your typing change the fonts and adjust the  sizes that you want for each little blurb that you  wrote.  You can also change the shapes (edit the margins) so each one looks entirely different.

3rd - PRINT what you wrote and use your trusty paper trimmer to cut each journal entry out.

Here are all of my journal entries cut apart and ready to go onto the page layouts...

Once they are cut out you can slip them into the proper page sleeves with the pictures that you placed there before you did your writing.  Now you can spend your time being creative and making the cute layouts that everyone loves...you don't have to think about what you are going to write until you complete this album and move on to the next one.  

 I hope this helps you spend less time writing and more time working on layouts for your albums.  Happy Scrapping!