Tell Me a Story Snippets Journaling Challenge

Here is the second of my journaling challenges for Just Cre8’s Happy Be Scrappy Crop. In this tutorial we will talk about using either one meaningful phrase that captures the essence of your feelings, or a series of single words that desire what you’ve observed. There are two awesome reasons to use this style of journaling – first, it’s about as quick as you can get while still being meaningful and second, you don’t need to fear the grammar police or worry about the flow and formality of a long paragraph.
Snippets Journaling

Master of the Pout (above) is the layout I created for a snippet phrase.

Journaling says “Still a lot to learn about taking turns!” That phrase really captured the essence of my son’s reality that day, and does a good job of adding understanding to the photo and the title. I could have elaborated on what game they were playing or who he was playing with, but it wouldn't really have added to what I wanted to capture, which was the way he used to pout at that age. It used to really frustrate me, but it's much cuter to look back on years later, now that he's outgrown it!

Another layout I recently posted which illustrates a snippet grouping of single words is this one. Journaling here says: lively, optimistic, silly, quick, loving, determined, vibrant, brilliant, joyful and sweet.

Here are some great tips for getting capturing details with snippets of journaling:

1) When you are limiting what you say on a page to one short phrase, make sure it truly captures what you want to say. “You’re so cute” doesn’t capture meaning nearly as much as something like “Grandma’s favourite hat plus Mommy’s purse equals a three-year old ready to go shopping!”
2) When journaling with a series of descriptive words, use words that uniquely describe the person or event, such as “determined” or “gregarious” rather than “cute”, which could describe almost every toddler!

I hope you will give this a try and post your finished layout in the gallery and on this thread. Happy journaling!