Journal Cards

How to use those little (usually 3" x 4") cards that you'll see everywhere, and often free! These cards are popular because they're used in Pocket Scrapbooking.

If you'd like to know more about pocket scrapping we just happen to have a whole site on it HERE.

Here's an example of a pocket style page. Basically the pictures and journal - or filler - cards sit in little boxes. In real life paper scrapping they sit in actual plastic pockets.  In the meantime here's a pocket style page which includes journal and filler cards:

I added some journalling to the large "card" top left and also added another photo on top of it. I used a Becky Higgins template and the Heritage kit. This is a standard layout favoured by many designers although you can use any kind of block template for this style of scrapbooking.

Here are two examples of using a journal card as an element in an ordinary layout. The first one uses Just Add Water by Little Butterfly Wings:

In this one I used Mandy King's A Shore Thing and layered two journal cards. You can use them however you like!

This one is pocket style but slightly outside the box - literally as I added journal cards/photos on top of the "pockets" and angled them. These inflatable spas don't last very long and it's a joke in our house that in most years there is a page of a new one arriving so I try to do something a bit different with them. This uses Becky Higgins' Turquoise kit:

Finally here's one where I went completely nuts and kept adding stuff. I do that a lot! This one uses mostly Fayette's Beach Therapy and Little Butterfly Wings' Just Add Water:

Give it a try!

You can even try journal cards free since we get a lot on the Digi Scrapping Freebies  and Easy Pocket Scrapbooking groups on Facebook.