Creating Scrapbook Pages Without Photos

by Audrey Okaneko

Have you ever had a wonderful day, returned home, and realized you had no photos of this very special day? Or has something spontaneous occurred and you wished you had photos to add to your scrapbook?

Why not create a layout with journaling, stickers and embellishments? Here is a great personal example I can share. My dog went into my daughter’s bedroom. Her bedroom is on the second floor. The window was open. The dog was able to push the screen out of the window and jump. Thankfully he was ok, but boy were we worried when we couldn’t find the dog and we saw the screen caved in. We never thought about taking photos of the bent screen. We never thought about taking photos showing the distance from the window to the ground. However, several months later, in telling the story to a friend, I thought how neat it would be to scrapbook this event.

This is a great example of a page that can be made with journaling, stickers and embellishments. We once found paper with paw prints on it. Using a sheet of that paper as my base, I can then add stickers, diecuts and journaling of the incident. We buy all types of stickers, some in cartoon format and some in real format. A cartoon format of a dog wearing a cape like superman would make a wonderful addition to this page.

Just yesterday, my parents paid us a visit and we spent the day in a small town about 40 miles away. We had a wonderful day, however we did not bring along a camera. To create a scrapbook page, I can create a title with the name of the town at the top and then stickers of women shopping, a shopping cart, a cash register etc along with journaling of our day together. A wonderful page can be created with out any photos.

Often, flash photography is not allowed. For example, my daughter really enjoys attending local plays. Between the program we receive, the write up in the local newspaper and stickers and embellishments we can create awesome pages of our evening out, with no photos.

I challenge anyone who scrapbooks to think about the past week, or the past month. What is one activity or one event you’d love to scrapbook, but have no photos of?  See if you can create a page, using just journaling, stickers and embellishments of this event. Once you begin creating photoless scrapbook pages, you’ll find that the possibilities are endless.