Tuesday, November 8, 2011

stuck in a bilingual dilemma ..


I'm working on a scrapbook album right now that is bilingual (English and Mandarin).

Many people I know scrapbook in two languages, and most of them switch from one language to the other - one page in English, for example, the other in French or German or Spanish. But I'm hoping to make this entire album, every single page, bilingual so that both families can read and enjoy each page.

Including bilingual journaling on each layout isn't a problem. I've been asking Xinxin to translate the journaling and she writes it out in Mandarin for me. What I've been struggling with are the page titles. The English title looks professional and trendy, spelled out with fancy letter stickers, but the Mandarin title is always handwritten or printed off onto cardstock because I haven't been able to find ANY Mandarin character stickers. I've searched high and low .. at Michaels, online, at my local scrapbook store, on Etsy ... and I'm still empty-handed. There are lots of stamps, but no stickers. So discouraging!

Do any of you scrapbook in more than one language? If so, what do you do when one language seems to dominate over the other? And pleeeeaaaassseeee if anybody has any creative ideas on how I can spruce up my Mandarin titles, let me know!

xo

1 comments:

  1. Hey I have a craft robo if you can find a font to write the characters in word I can cut them and mail them to you

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