Journaling and Font of characters in scrapbooking

The journaling

It is a kind of text for the photographs which can tell the history of the people, the places or the times taken in photograph and developments on the page carried out.

One can add to it little quotations or poems, texts of songs…

For much of beginners, the journaling is a headache which is repeated in each page of the album. It is necessary to find text-ideas in order to make “live” each page of the album and give a comment to the photographs which it emphasize.

First of all, the title… It is very visible and gives the general topic of the page: birthday, voyage, friends, proverb or quotation…

The page opposite was created at the time of the Mother's Day 2008! A small poem of Anne Taylor particularly of circumstances was added under the series of photographs.

To determine a general title more easily, ask you “good questions” about the photographs:

- On which occasion they were taken? Celebrates, birthday…
- Which are the characters present on these photographs?
- Which are the characters whom one does not see?
- Has which place they were taken?
- Which season has?
- Did it occur a remarkable event this day there?
- Does That make me think of a title of song, a poem, a proverb?

All these questions will help you to determine the GENERAL TOPIC of your page: one moment of meditation in front of the waves becomes “Alone on sand” (Seule sur le sable) with an interesting use of the “S” which caps the 3 lines!

On this subject, a technique rather often used in journaling is the acrostic… It consists in writing a small poem of which the initial ones compose a mot.

Look at the small poem written for ANA:

Au bord de la déroute
N'existait que le doute
Avant toi sur ma route

(At the edge of the rout
Existed only the doubt
Before you on my road)

who could make an excellent subtitle in a page of photographs dedicated to ANA

Theses“journaling” can be written with the hand (forthose which have a beautiful regular writing!), to come from a printer or from precut letters bought in the specialized trade.

You can also print texts on printed papers (imagination) then to cut out it in bands with the manner of the old telegrams.

You can also print in very big letters on sheets of cardboard then cut out them with the cutter or the scissors as in the page “I love you" above

For those which want to go further and to discover new ideas, I announce you the very complete book of Melanie Lagarde. You can find it HERE at a reduced price and even without carriage costs!

Where to find font faces?

If you print your journaling with a PC printer, you will have to find “beautiful” fonts. Those delivered with Windows can only with difficulty be appropriate: they miss artistic character!

Some sites on the other hand abound literally in extremely diversified font faces. Here are some, the list not being obviously complete! All these sites propose the free downloading of their collections.

DAFONT. This first site is most impressive, most complete. So much even as the choice is difficult! The fonts, with the number higher than 5.000, are grouped by topics, easy to locate: Imagination, used, déstructuré, Retro…

You will be able to find also there small logos very pleasants very indicated to decorate your pages. Therefore, for those which do not know, throw there a glance, that is worth really the blow HERE.

URBANFONTS. It is a site very interesting in more than one way: it simple, fast, is well presented and pleasant.

All is made to facilitate your research and your choice. A characteristic, that to give a preview of the font as soon as one passes the mouse above !

Particularly useful in scrapbooking, the “degraded” font that you will be able to find under the heading “dirty” And there is good about thirty pages on it! That occurs HERE.

CREAMUNDO. Spanish site whose only defect is to be a little slow… the richness and the diversity of its police forces will quickly make you forget this defect!

There still, one tests directly with the screen a sentence test (or directly your text if you prefer it) in the selected police force.

Of course, all the remote loadings are free and unlimited!
Test HERE

COOLGRAFIK. It is not a site exclusively devoted to the font faces: virtual cards, funds of screen, ringings and SMS… support on “FONTS TTF” to find those classified in a particularly interesting signal 100.

The classification of the fonts is determined by the remote loadings of the Net surfers : there are thus well there “popular” fonts.

Let us note, among so many others, adorable “the DARLING” and unexpected “the JAYCONS” made up it of Chinese ideograms!

You do not dispatch… there is HERE for everyone! Also see!

WEBCHANTIER. I add it well that there are no font faces… But it is the gate of the vectorial image with a diversity of images which will astonish you!

I recommend their section to you “old advertising ” which comprises old engravings or newspaper cuttings which will be better effect in your creations. You will print them on a paper after their having given effects of trans parences with your preferred editor of images.

Click HERE to visit this site!

How to install a font in Windows?

But that thus made the police force (in french, a font is named "police" !!!

When you download a font, it will arrive to you compressed in the shape of a file .ZIP or .RAR… For example, I have just received the file: artistamp.zip

Double-click on this file, the window winzip opens (or perhaps that of winrar)… Click then on extracting towards… then give the name of a site where the file will be decompressed: I propose to you to type C: /mes documents/fonts.

Pass then in Configuration pannel then in Fonts.
.

In the File menu, click on Install a new font.

Indicate the site where you decompressed your police force (C: /mes documents/police forces… if you made like me!). Click on OK… your police force is installed!

Use then your editor of images favorites: Photoshop, CorelDraw, PaintShopPro… Personally I find PhotoImpact very easy to use.

And here the result!

(You notice certainly that this poem is dedicated to ANNE!)

Cut out in irregular bands and stuck on the bottom of our one page peutr to obtain:

A gold mine!

An extraordinary site… true gold mine for the scrapbookers one informed: http://www.houseoflime.com. This site is in English language… but one understands quickly what it acts! A ultra-simplified menu, a stripped design but contents of a beautiful richness!

You will find there an imposing number of fonts, of which a good part for your “heritage” pages.

On another page, a multitude of “dingbats” classified by kinds and which will be to you of a great utility!

Labels! tickets of cinema! Scrapbooking freebies !

A site, arranged particularly well, in French and very teaching, who swarms with various resources:

The scrap of Sylvie