Scrapbooking is a fun pastime, but don't lose sight of the main goal any scrapbooker is trying to achieve: to produce a quality product that can be shown to friends and family and eventually passed on to future generations to provide a record of your life. Therefore, one of the most important steps to creating any page is the journaling. Unfortunately, this is also one of the most forgotten steps. Journaling is important because it is a written record of what is happening in the pictures for people who weren't there or don't know you. I like to begin by creating a title for each page. This can be something simple and straightforward, such as "Mom and Dad's 50th Anniversary" or it can be creative, heartwarming, or funny. Think of your page as a story and then name it. Use big bold letters for the title to draw attention to it, but make sure it does not overwhelm the most important elements of the page'the pictures. Each picture on your page should have a few words as a caption. Name the people and/or places photographed; although it may seem obvious to you right now, you may not be able to remember names when you look at your album 20 years from now. Others who do not know all of your friends will also benefit from these labels. Captions should be small elements on the page, and occasionally two similar pictures will not each need a caption....
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