LOL @ the spelling. I always spell it with one l because "journalling" just looks wrong to me for some reason. I think of it as a word that is in the same spelling vein as other action verbs like "traveling"(yay!) vs. "travelling" (boo!). But I've noticed too that it's really not a word that dictionaries like. LOL!! It could very well have been made up by the scrapbooking industry. Just like "scrapbooking"...my spell checks never like that one either. It's like it doesn't see them as verby and what not. (p.s. verby is also not a word).
As for journaling...I will say that once upon a time I didn't journal very much. It was more of an afterthought...so some of my pages didn't have any journaling at all. Here's my first digital page (and I can't believe I'm about to dredge up a page this old and this horrible):
And there's others..like these (ew):
BUT...there were glimpses of the story in there from the very start too. This is my third page ever digitally scrapped. So it's also dreadful, but it's FULL of story.
Mostly I think that in the very beginning I was focusing on learning my program, getting confident in the digital medium and falling in love with the community. It wasn't long before I was scrapping the story regularly though. You can see in my gallery that I regularly journaled beginning around month 3 of my digiscrapping evolution and it increased more and more over time. But still, even then it wasn't *quite* like I do now. My scrapping was a little more product, creative team driven. Sooo..while I loved to include the story in journaling, it still was second, if that makes sense.
Then, I had a coming to The Story moment. I realized that the pages I loved most...and the ones that mattered more to my loved ones (and to me!)..were the ones where I shared my feelings and thoughts in *words* and not just in images and design.
And now..I'm like you. Can't scrap a page without journaling without it feeling totally foreign and naked to me.
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