For me, scrapbooking is all about the stories. I love the photos and the pretty kits, but without a story, I can’t get started. Sometimes my inspiration will come from the kit, sometimes from a photo I’ve found in my archives or have taken recently, but I find it particularly satisfying to start completely with the story. I particularly love the ‘everyday’ stories, things that happen all the time.

Take this layout, telling the story of my slowcoach daughter making everyone else wait for her in the morning when we’re trying to go to school. I came up with the journalling idea first, then set up and took the photo – it was just a case of asking my younger daughter to stand in the frame – then finally made my page.

My approach to this was to sit down with a notepad and write down the stuff that happens in a regular day, adding notes about the stories that I’d like to tell. I’ve still got quite a few ideas still to use from this list, and I didn’t actually get past lunchtime! If mornings don’t inspire you, why not start with your evening? Or your weekend routine?

How about something that happens every time you go to a particular place – like our trips to Starbucks nearly every time we go to our local town.

I hope that I’ve inspired you to start with the story for your next layout – hop over to the challenge forum to join in today’s challenge!

About the Author: Jude Toone is part of the Creative Team at The Digital Press. She lives in the UK with her husband and two fantastic girls. She’s loves travelling and would be off in her campervan every weekend if she could get away with it and loves time spent exploring new places and trying new experiences – and photographing them! She also spends too much time on the computer and doesn’t go running as often as she says she’s going to.