Hidden Journaling

Have you ever tried adding hidden journaling to a layout? Hidden journaling can come in handy for a few reasons. Here are the ones that make me turn to hiding my journaling.

• I’ve designed a layout and I feel like it’s perfectly balanced only to realize that I don’t have anywhere to add my journaling.
• The story I want to tell isn’t meant for everyone’s eyes.
• On occasion I just like to have a little tag peeking out from behind a photo, or would like to include an interactive element to my layout.

If you haven’t tried including hidden journaling on a layout and are curious how to do it. Check out this short video that I shared.

Layout Details

This layout is for my 6″ x 8″ layout. The left page is 4″ x 8″ and the right 6″ x 8″. I love mixing up my page sizes in my albums – especially smaller albums. It makes it almost interactive when you flip through.

• The base of the layout is a piece of the Earthen Elegance DSP that I cut down.
• To mat the photo on the right, I stamped the Doggone Friendly background stamp on vellum using VersaMark and then embossed with black embossing powder. Then I trimmed around it so it didn’t look so boxy.
• I didn’t have any black embellishments so I pulled out some retired ones and coloured them with my basic black Stampin’ Blend.  This is a great way to get embellishments in any of our colours:)

This is a very simple layout but every layout doesn’t need to have lots of detail to it. You really want the photos to be the focal point.

I know that the next question I’m going to get is how do you access the hidden journaling once your page is in a page protector. Not a problem! I have a solution for that too. Check out this video. In it I share how you can slit your page protector so that you can access the journaling.

If you enjoyed this weeks memory keeping Monday scrapbooking tips, don’t miss out on celebrating National Scrapbooking Day at the upcoming virtual retreat. Find all the details here.

Until next time,

Shopping List

In addition to the supplies listed below I also used some retired embellishments; a new colour card stock called Barely Beige and Kerri Bradford alphabet sets – Willow Upper (small) and Willow Lower.