Guest Author - Michelle McVaney
Does your journaling always look pretty much the same. The standard paragraph style journaling. Sometimes a bulleted list. Or maybe just a few sentence strips. It is hard to find new ways of adding journaling to your scrapbook pages. I was so excited to find out about this awesome site called Wordle! Now my journaling can get mixed up a little instead of the standard paragraphs, lists, or sentence stips that I typically use.
All you have to do is type in some journaling and the site makes what they call a word cloud! Words that are used more frequently in the journaling will sometimes appear larger than some of the other words. You can use different fonts. There is also an option to have the word cloud created in different patterns or layouts. You can even choose what colors you want your words to appear.
Click here to check out this site and give wordle a try.!
From what I understand you may need to turn off your firewall to get your journaling to show up on the site. If you have trouble the site is helpful with troubleshooting. Once your journaling is set you can print it out to use in your scrapbook or even use it on your digital scrapbook pages.
Here are a few examples of some of the Wordle journaling clouds that I have created. I am printing mine out to use on my traditional scrapbook pages. I have friends that have used wordle on their digital scrapbook pages as well. I love that you can use it for both. Most of all I love that it is free! What a great tool to add to our scrapbooking arsenals! Make sure that you check it out and give it a try.
I hope that you enjoy this awesome new find for your journaling. It has become a little addictive for me. I just keep on playing with it over and over again. I would love to see some examples of how you use Wordle. Email me so I can see how you use this great tool on your scrapbook pages!
