Many of you might be a list maker, as I am. As I’ve gotten older, I find I rely on them more and more in my day-to-day routine. So it’s no surprise that I use them also in my scrapbook page design. I make to-do lists, grocery lists, chore lists, gym schedule lists and many more. I’m old school and like to write it down on paper. I do have a Google calender for keeping track of things but I like to see it written down and it tends to stick in my brain better if I do that. My office, kitchen and living room desk all have pads of paper and pens for me to jot down info.
A fun page design is to scrap about some of those lists you make, take photos of them. For my page, I took a few photos with my iPhone, resizing one of them smaller to fit over the note-book element and the other I enlarged and applied a filter, blending it into the background. It’s also fun to have a record of my printing, as messy and terrible as it is, it is my handwriting, so it’s great to show it on my page.
The other use for lists in page design is to journal in list format. Some, like myself, struggle with journaling and if I find my thought process isn’t putting a story together well, I will then use a list to record information without having to structure sentences. Also, if your page design doesn’t leave much room for journaling, using a list can record your information in a neat and concise manner. This page I created is partly in list form, about my current reading materials.
So, if you are like me and you write out lists, scrapbook about it, take photos of your lists and document (what, who, when, where) about your process of listing. In your page design, utilize lists in point form, it’s a time saver, takes up less space on your page and is a concise, clear format.
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