I’ve been published!
25 Memories to Capture Now!
Check that off the bucket list!
Welcome to Use it Scrapbooking! Today I am thrilled to be a part of the Your Story Matters Blog Hop! If you’ve been following along, you’re coming from Lynette’s Sassy Scrapper blog and your next stop will be Danielle’s Scrapper on the Street. If you’ve started here, you can catch the whole hop by starting at Lain Ehmann’s Layout A Day!
As a member of Lain Ehmann’s ScrapHappy family, I was asked to submit a layout for our ScrapHappy Book “Your Story Matters – 25 Memories to Capture Now!“ I am happy to say our little book is now available as an eBook! It’s the first time my work has been published and I couldn’t be happier!
The book features Lain’s 25 ideas for telling your personal stories and 50 layouts created by members of the ScrapHappy family! I decided to tell the story of how I chose my college. As important a choice as this was in my life, I’ve never scrapped it before. Since I began scrapbooking in earnest after my first child was born, most of my scrapbooking has been about my kids and the years after they were born. It was so freeing to tell a story about me that most people don’t know and wouldn’t know if I didn’t write it down.
Here’s a peek at my page from “Your Story Matters“! It’s titled “That Dear old U of R…or How the Love Boat Changed My Life!” I loved the chance to tell how my grandmother, inspired by an episode of The Love Boat, took me on a trip to Europe when I was twelve years old. The opportunity to study in the places I’d seen on that trip is what inspired me to choose the University of Redlands as my college. I’ve never regretted that decision for an instant!
So that’s just one of the layouts in “Your Story Matters – 25 Memories to Capture Now!” Why did you choose your college? How did you meet your spouse? What’s your story? Are you ready to put more of YOU in your scrapbooks? Then you will love this book!
Good news! As a reader of my blog, you get a couple of perks!! For a limited time, “Your Story Matters” is available at the introductory price of $7! Plus, if you use code HOP you can get $2 off! This coupon is good until 1/21/13. So, only $5 for this amazing book! (You know you spent more than THAT the last time you were at the scrapbook store!)
One more perk for participating in our little blog hop? A GIVEAWAY! Three lucky readers who comment on our blog hop will win a FREE copy of “Your Story Matters“! So, leave me a comment and tell me a story you are waiting to tell in your scrapbook! Then keep hopping along our blog hop and continue to comment to increase your chances of winning!
The contest will close on 1/19/13 and the winners will be announced on www.LayoutADay.com on 1/21/13!
Don’t worry, if you purchase your copy of “Your Story Matters” and then you win, Lain will refund your purchase price! So head over to http://www.layoutaday.com/ysmebook/ and use code HOP for $2 off!
Your next stop on the blog hop is Danielle Taylor, your Scrapper on the Street: http://scrapperonthestreet.com
If you started the blog hop with me, here are the other bloggers who are participating in our Your Story Matters Blog Hop:
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Love how you captured a long ago memory…. I still have piles of my childhood photos (and memories) to capture… best I start on some of those.
Over the last year, I’ve pulled out some of my childhood photos to scrapbook and these pages are such a treasure to me! No one else can tell those stories like you can!
My story that is terms to be written is my view of what my life is currently like. Sure I scrapbook about my kids and what we all do together but do not have what I feel about out experience through my eyes. One of my goals for 2013 indeed
That is so true, Ellie! It is so easy to tell the story through their eyes and not include our perspective. Good luck to you on such a worthy goal!
Excited to get a copy. I have 4 adorable children and have no trouble recording their lives. Mine, on the other hand, gets left behind. I would love to put together an album about mine and my husbands life before kids. That would be a fun one.
That would be fun!
Kelli, what a great story to capture! I have enjoyed doing layouts about different things in my life that I hadn’t thought of in years. I’m certainly not getting any younger, I better get more of them done!
You seem younger to me every day, Kristie!
Crossed off the bucket list – that’s exactly how I feel! Lovely page, Kelli!
The only thing I don’t like about the layout is….
I have the theme to the Love Boat stuck in my head now.
Soon will be making another run….
What a wonderful story Kelly and I had to enlarge that layout so that I could see the 80′s clothing LOL!
Braces. Permed hair. High top tennis shoes with pegged pants. Remind me why I posted this for all to see?
Love this! My kids love it when I tell stories about my childhood. Especially the ones that make me look especially silly.
Yes, they like those best for sure!
Love what you’re doing!
Thank you!
Love you tons Wonder Twin! You are such an incredible inspiration and friend to me!!
And you to me, Danielle!
I commented on Lain’s post that my own story and the story of my children’s young years are especially important to document, since no one else knows the details like I do.
p.s. I love the tagline on your blog!
Thank you, Annie!
These pages and prompts really do have me thinking about MY story, as opposed to the story I usually tell of all those around me. Time to think about leaving a trace of me behind… Thanks for sharing and giving us the chance to win the book!
I agree, it’s off my bucket list too! So awesome to have worked with you on this! Yay us!!
It was such a great project! Always happy to have my name next to yours, Alison!
Thanks for this topic. Would have never thought to do it. My kids would never guess a guy that wasn’t their dad influenced my decision. That would be fun to scrap just to see their reaction. Thinking about it, I think their dad’s history would be important to scrap for them. Maybe someday!
Surprising the kids is a great motivator, isn’t it?
Thanks so much for sharing the LO!
All the things that touch you are important! I just get overwhelmed wanting to put them down!
PS if you are a facebook fan you could leave a vote for me on a LO I made recently https://www.facebook.com/persnicketyprints?sk=app_451684954848385&app_data=view-vote%2Cfor-169349
Don’t let overwhelm stop you! Just get the stories down one at a time!
P.S. I voted for you!
Congratulations Kelli on the published layout. Your goal to inspire others is moving full speed. Your an amazing person and creative artist and I am so thrilled to see your work moving out for the world to see. Way to go, girl.
Thanks, Lottie!! It’s so exciting!
Yes I need to scrap more about my dear old me. Those memories are starting to fade as we grow older. Don’t want to forget how I grew up! Thanks for inspiring
Congrats, Kelli! We’ve come a long way since that first LOAD in 2010! So glad to take this journey with you.
I love your adventurous spirit you’ve captured on this page and why you chose the college you did. What a great idea for a page and the book!
How wonderful your grma and the memories from that trip are! I will take the cue to share more about what is behind my pictures and the past.
Good for you, Cathie! Share a link with me! I’d love to see what you create!
As always great work Kelli – so proud to be part of this with you – and so pleased to call you my friend! Congratulations – you’re awesome!
And I am so proud to be part of this with YOU! Thanks, Friend!
If other scrappers are like me, they document everyone ELSE’S life and not their own. I think it’s important to do a page listing little-known facts about YOU. I did that once, and even good friends were surprised by some of the things I put down. I still love that page, and I did that two years ago.
I think that is so true, Dana. It almost easier to document the people around, but I’m finding more and more the pages are I adore are the ones that tell my story a little deeper. Good for you for doing your little known facts! If it’s post somewhere I’d love to see it!
The important thing for me right now is to include journaling on each page I do. I believe that feelings and emotions should be journaled too wherever possible too. That way I can tell the story of myself too.
That’s so right, Bernice. Your feelings and emotions are what make the story your own!
Kelli, I believe every scrapper should scrap something that they are passionate about! If you don’t have a passion???? Ask God for it! He will surely give you one and it may just be HIM! Many blessings and congrats on being published.
You are so right, Candy! Thanks for stopping by! Looking forward to “seeing” you in LOAD!
Scrapbooking your everyday life is of great importance, especially to future generations!! Thanks for the opportunity!
GREAT layout and memory! I really have the urge to document about those ‘life defining moments’ that we all have. I have had a few over the years that have really change my outlook. I NEED to get that documented. This ebook looks FANTASTIC!
I’m getting my copy.
Congrats on being published, Kelli! Thanks for sharing your sweet layout!!
I want to scrap more often and share those special moments that mean so much to me!
Thank you for this great opportunity,
Renee