Welcome back to my final day of this series on scrapbooking when you don't have photos. We've covered a few different approaches -- focusing on the story or journaling only in various forms and using memorabilia in place of photos. Today we have yet another idea: using stock photos. There are lots of different stock photo sites on the internet and many of them have free photos. Flickr can also be a source for photos once you check the terms of use on the photograph. Right around September 11th I was talking with some friends about what we were doing that time, 10 years ago and it prompted the following layout. I don't have any photos from that day but I was able to find one online to use on this layout.
Celeste uses stock photos frequently - she used stock photos to document some good things in her life right now:
I used photos from the Food Network website to document my family's obsession with the show Chopped:
Another option is to use screen captures to get images from your computer of websites. I used a utility called Gadwin PrintScreen to capture different websites that I use when reading:
That's it from me -- I hope this gave you a few ideas on how you can scrap those photo-less memories and stories!
