LYM Weeks 36 & 37

I'm way behind in my Log Your Memory Challenges. To be honest, there were no guest designers for the summer and I really need the motivation of earning a complete kit by completing all of the monthly challenges to actually do them. The September Guest Designer is Scrapping With Liz and I love her stuff. I was not that happy with my layout for Week 36 to be honest, so I fixed it up a little and here is the new version:

My Father
Penelope Layered Template 50 by Brine Design;
Outback by Brine Design; Moving House by Brine Design;
Wish Your Heart Makes by Brine Design;
Passionflower by Brine Design and Danielle Young Designs;
Fonts: Century Gothic, CKBella
Wrinkled Paper brush by PSHero

The theme for September is personal growth: Education • Exploration • Creativity – Take a closer look at how you arrived at this point in your life and where you want to go next. The challenge for Week 36 was to write a letter to someone who has played a role in your quest for knowledge. I chose to make a layout about the things my father taught me.

If you are interested here is the layout, before I fixed it up. I made it in one evening and I'm always happier with my layouts if I come back to them on another day and tweak them a little.

My Father
Penelope Layered Template 50 by Brine Design;
Outback by Brine Design;
Moving House by Brine Design;
Wish Your Heart Makes by Brine Design;
Passionflower by Brine Design and Danielle Young Designs;
Fonts: CKBella, Century Gothic

Why was I not happy with the original, you ask? The journaling is barely visible, the title is too small, and frames lacked oomph. I had "made" the frames by texturizing the frames in the template and I just wasn't happy with them. Rather than searching through my stash for actual frames, in the new improved layout, I placed a wrinkled paper brush over them to make them look distressed.

I liked my layout for Week 37 however, and so did someone else–it's layout of the week at LYM this week. The challenge for this week was to use photos or images to capture your creative or learning process. I made a layout about enhancing the photo I used in the first GingerScraps Survivor Challenge. Here it is:

I Create
House of 3 Sampler Brushes
TTV texture is Texture-Fake TTV #1 (bus stop window) by Steffen Jakob
Photocorners by PSHero
Old Tyme Junque by Cari Cruse

The journaling is about changes in the way I scrapbook. It reads:
When I first started scrapbooking, I fell in love with it immediately. I loved preserving my photos and my memories. I began scrapping at a monthly Creative Memories crop, so I was quickly trained in the CM way. It had to be acid-free, ligin-free, and non-bulky. I did everything I could to preserve my photos. Everyone at the crops scrapped in a clean and simple, graphic style so I adopted that style as correct. It was frustrating though, in that I've never been very coordinated so I'd bring a layout home and my husband would ask "Why is that crooked?" So when I first discovered dig-scrapping, I was delighted that I could align and center things. And I discovered I could put "bulky" things on my layouts without bulk. And then I realized I liked the distressed look. Torn papers, wrinkled photos. And I loved crooked. The possibilities with digital scrapbooking are endless. There are always new techniques to learn.