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By Deborah Bouziden If those expensive blank books have you down in the dumps, don’t worry. You can make your journal fancy and personal by using scrapbooking techniques. I found the experience fun and relaxing. The possibilities are endless. You can make vacation journals, journals for your thoughts on your children at any given age, wedding journals, pet journals, food journals, work journals, etc. The list could go on and on. I discovered scrapbooking quite by accident. My daughter and I kept driving past this bus bench that had an advertisement by a scrapbooking store in town. Every time, we passed, we talked about checking the place out. One day, we took the time and did. I had often thought about decorating a spiral notebook, but wasn’t sure how to go about it. When I stepped inside the store, all kinds of possibilities popped into my head. There were stickers, stamps, die-cuts, and all sorts of punches and scissors to make borders around pictures or the edges of a notebook. Seeing all that could be done, I set to work. Because we go to Colorado every year for vacation, I wanted to make a ‘vacation journal’. I went and purchased a $1.29 5X7 spiral notebook, gathered pictures from our past trips and set to work. With help and suggestions from the store’s owners, I came up with the journal cover on the opening page. It cost about $3 to make and it’s more personal than the store bought journals. If you are interested in making journal covers for your journals using scrapbooking techniques, below are several websites you should check out.
These websites can give you tips and ideas about the kinds of things possible and directions on how to do it. Good luck and happy journaling! Go back to the journaling index for more tips on how to journal
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