Log Your Memory 2012-Wk 6

This Vanity kit in blues and grays is perfect for the Log Your Memory challenge 6 of 2012, which focuses on personal style such as haircuts and hairstyles.


 Here is my layout for this challenge.

Gray Hair is Gonna Clear Up
Vanity by Key of D Designs;
Fonts: ck_maggiesjournal,GillSans-UltraBold

Next week the LYM challenge is all about purses! I can hardly wait!

LYM Week 40

I'm behind in my Log Your Memory weekly layouts. Before today I hadn't done single layout for October. I think it's a combination of being busy and feeling ambivalent about this month's theme. The theme for October is "In My Experience: Life Lessons, Roles, Philosophies". The challenge for Week 40 was:
Journaling Challenge: Share your advice on how to manage the basics of life.
Document the lessons you have learned about how to lead a successful life or your personal philosophies regarding such tasks as money management, housekeeping, maintaining friendships, choosing partners, or balancing responsibilities.

This is my layout:

Welcome to the Real World
Adore by Designs by Krista;
Raffia from Harvest Time by Designs by Krista (Blog Freebie);
Fonts: American Typewriter-Condensed Bold, American Typewriter

The journaling reads:
I found this article in Reader's Digest back in 1987 when I was  high school. I pulled it out and have been carrying it around ever since. I love the advice inside especially:
Never answer an advertisement seeking a "liberal roommate." You probably are not that liberal.
They aren't kidding when they say "Wash whites separately."
Never date a man who still goes shopping with his mother.
"Heat included" does not mean "Heat guaranteed."
Be nice to little people. You're still one of them.
Nice people get roaches too.
Face up to it, you must dust.
Dirty laundry never goes away.
Hurry up and learn patience.

LYM Week 38

This is my first blog post from a smart phone so it will be brief. The weekly challenge at LYM this week was a Reflection Challenge: Recall a time when you pushed the boundaries or accomplished a goal that required significant effort.

Just Relax

Circle and Square Templates by Key of D Designs
Sealed With a Kiss by Key of D Designs
April Showers by Key of D Designs
Pop! by Key of D Designs
The Grass is Always Greener by Key of D Designs
Fonts: CK Allison and Throw My Hands Up in the Air

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.

LYM-week 25

The Log Your Memory challenge this week was to document your relationship with the generations before you. I chose to compare myself to my father because I have always been just like him. I have his forehead and his half-a-widow's peak and most of his personality. I love my father. He loves me more.

There is a template challenge at ScrapOrchard right now and the template provided was perfect for this layout.  I searched through my stash looking for a kit with browns and reds and picked an old favorite by Red Ivy.  I figured pink was just good as red!

I am he.

Credits:

Template: June SO Template Challenge Free"bee" by Scrapping with Liz

Kit used Moments by Red Ivy

Stitches from Passionflower (collab) by Brine Design and Danielle Young Designs

Fonts: Myriad Pro and MA Sexy

LYM-week 24

The weekly challenge at LYM this week was to compare and contrast two people in your life or one person at two different times.  As soon as I sat down to work on this challenge, I thought of a conversation I had at the water cooler last week.  A co-worker asked if I was better off now than I had been 5 years ago. I immediately said "Yes!" because 5 years ago I was 2.5 months from meeting my husband.  I am much better off now that I am happily married.  As it turns out, he wasn't asking about my personal life but about a management change that occurred at work some 5 years ago. But I'm glad he asked because it set me up perfectly for this weekly challenge. So I pulled out a recent photo and one from 2006 and thought hard about what had changed and what hadn't.  Here is my layout:

Then & Now

Kit used Practically Perfect Collab by Ju Kneipp Designs and Sahlin Studio

Stitching (long and tic-tac-toe) from Someday Soon by Captivated Visions

Stitch border from You are My Sunshine by D'nia (Dunia Designs)

Fonts: VT Portable Remington and Stencil