No Photos, No Problem
Some ideas of what to include in your layouts
Whether you're making weekly, monthly or as-and-when layouts you might want to include stuff other than photos or you had a scrapping lapse and didn't take any photos. Shame on you...
Here are some items you could add to your pages:
1) Screenshots: The weather, the route map, or a meme or ad that you found amusing. I ALWAYS forget to take a screenshot of the weather for a hot beach day layout, essential in the UK as otherwise no-one believes it was hot! And including Grumpy Cat will be interesting when people ask what was wrong with that cat in ten years' time.
2) Make a note of a conversation - not just the funny things kids say but a talk with your neighbour about mending the fence or something that's happening in the neighbourhood. Where I live the proposed location of the next Costa shop changes every week depending on who you talk to so we write it down! You could even have a "What the cat thought about this" spot on the page. My rabbits had a lot of journalling on my pages, they each had their own font.
3) What are you watching? Scan the TV listing/DVD cover or screenshot the ad and include that. Make a journalling card with your rating of the programme. There are lots of pre-made ones available too.
4) Include recipes - your own or from magazines - even if you don't like having photos of food on your pages. In my house it's more a case of "should have cleaned the kitchen before taking that photo" so the photos often don't make it onto the page. There's only so much photoshopping you can do before you realise it would be quicker to clean the kitchen.
5) Something you would like to make - recipe, knitting, sewing etc. Make your layout your own Pinterest board! I sometimes include drawings. I tend to make diagrams when I change a knitting pattern or design a quilt. At least they don't get lost if they're put on a page.
6) Somewhere you're thinking of going - a new restaurant, local attraction, a dream holiday. If it's in your head in can go on the page.
7) Pictures of digital layouts you made that week - ideal for square pockets.
8) QR code to link to a video, websites, online gallery etc. Here's a tutorial on how QR codes work.
9) Your grocery bill so that in ten years' time you can laugh at how cheap everything was.
10) Your Facebook posts or Twitter or Instagram feed or recent pins on Pinterest. Wherever in the social media realm you hang out basically. A good way to include Facebook posts is to have them feed into the Momento app then take a screen shot (more on this later).
Here are some items you could add to your pages:
1) Screenshots: The weather, the route map, or a meme or ad that you found amusing. I ALWAYS forget to take a screenshot of the weather for a hot beach day layout, essential in the UK as otherwise no-one believes it was hot! And including Grumpy Cat will be interesting when people ask what was wrong with that cat in ten years' time.
2) Make a note of a conversation - not just the funny things kids say but a talk with your neighbour about mending the fence or something that's happening in the neighbourhood. Where I live the proposed location of the next Costa shop changes every week depending on who you talk to so we write it down! You could even have a "What the cat thought about this" spot on the page. My rabbits had a lot of journalling on my pages, they each had their own font.
3) What are you watching? Scan the TV listing/DVD cover or screenshot the ad and include that. Make a journalling card with your rating of the programme. There are lots of pre-made ones available too.
4) Include recipes - your own or from magazines - even if you don't like having photos of food on your pages. In my house it's more a case of "should have cleaned the kitchen before taking that photo" so the photos often don't make it onto the page. There's only so much photoshopping you can do before you realise it would be quicker to clean the kitchen.
5) Something you would like to make - recipe, knitting, sewing etc. Make your layout your own Pinterest board! I sometimes include drawings. I tend to make diagrams when I change a knitting pattern or design a quilt. At least they don't get lost if they're put on a page.
6) Somewhere you're thinking of going - a new restaurant, local attraction, a dream holiday. If it's in your head in can go on the page.
7) Pictures of digital layouts you made that week - ideal for square pockets.
8) QR code to link to a video, websites, online gallery etc. Here's a tutorial on how QR codes work.
9) Your grocery bill so that in ten years' time you can laugh at how cheap everything was.
10) Your Facebook posts or Twitter or Instagram feed or recent pins on Pinterest. Wherever in the social media realm you hang out basically. A good way to include Facebook posts is to have them feed into the Momento app then take a screen shot (more on this later).