*SPILL IT: JUST WRITE WHAT YOU FEEL*
Tuesday, September 1, 2009 at 6:00AM
For our second challenge, just write what you feel. Seriously. It's liberating. To prove the point and hopefully inspire you, here are the layouts by our wonderful contributors, including a special guest for this challenge, and myself. As before, we'll showcase each of these contributors and her layouts in the days to come. Be sure to check back, as those showcase days will include notes from each contributor and often the journaling for each layout.
First, our special guest contributor for this challenge is Marti:
Marti is celebrating her grandbaby Quincey's five beautiful days on earth. Here's her layout:
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Remember to check back over the coming days to see the journaling and story behind this layout!
Jamie:
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Jen (who again did layouts for both her aunt and her grandma):
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Lisa:
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Molly:
Stacey:
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Tania (with two layouts this challenge):
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Amanda:
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We hope you'll participate in this challenge along with us! (This one, in particular, can be so healing!) As extra incentive, we've again been blessed to find a generous sponsor who's offering a fabulous prize to a random winner. Our sponsor this time is Ormolu (a cool etsy store). The giveaway will include: (12) good tags, (9) chronicle tags, (24) assignment tags, and (20) time tags:
Notice the cool "good grief" tag that's included in those "good tags"! (I actually bought some of those just for that tag!) To be eligible for the random drawing, upload your challenge project online and link us up in the comments of this post by midnight on September 10th. No limit on the number of entries or whether they've been posted online previously...just be sure to link us up so we can see and share in your story.
So. Go spill it, okay? And don't forget about our new message board in case you want to talk things through as you create for this challenge (or if you just want to chat or tell me something you think would be cool for this blog).
Reader Comments (19)
This looks like a great challenge. Beautiful layouts ladies!
I am looking forward to participating in this challenge. I always have a hard time with journaling on my layouts but I am going to give it a try.
First, thanks for creating this blog. It is a wonderful thing you are doing.
Second, I took your challenge and finally scrapbooked a question I've always had about my parents' relationship - What Went Wrong?
I've had the idea for this page for a few months. In fact everything was ready to go - papers picked, layout planned, chipboard painted, but I couldn't bring myself to create it b/c I thought I would regret it...
But I accepted your challenge and then the journalling came to me in about 15 minutes. I got home from work today and completed it within a half hour. Thanks for the opportunity to be heard and be healed.
See here:
http://cyndnelson.blogspot.com/2009/09/what-went-wrong-lo.html
GREAT Blog! Found it through Kelli Crowe's and so glad I did. What a great challenge. It has me daydreaming of a layout as we speak....errr.... I mean type
OMG - I LOVE good grief tags...for that is MY saying!!! Unfortunately people I hang around with hear it ALL too often! I adore the idea of writng what you feel....just do it!! I'm going to have to follow you now - love your blog! :)
Wow. I'm liking this blog. I'll have to thank Kelli! =)
So mad at the moment! I just 'spilled it' & clicked preview & lost it all! It was so- long & from my heart! I cannot remember all of it. Ugh!
Here's my link: http://www.scrapbook.com/galleries/164877/view/1053187/0/40/1.html
The layout is of my big sister who passed suddenly 3 yrs ago, from a massive heart attack. (I just cannot believe all that I typed just a few mins ago is gone!) =(
The journaling for the layout is underneath in the description.
Just reading this blog, I have so many ideas for layouts w/& w/o photos. Thx for the inspiration & knowing there's a place to do so.
I actually created this layout in Aug....but the thoughts and feelings still hold true.
Ugghhh! The link didn't post!
Ok, here is the link.....
http://www.studiocalico.com/forums/galleries/show/13946
What a great blog and way for all of us creating memory scrapbooks to get together. I was fortunate enough to take Tania's In Loving Memory class and that gave me the kick I needed to get my pages started. I am also going back and doing the first challenge, so I will post that one there also.
Here are the links to my layout for the victim impact statement I read in court at sentencing.
http://i367.photobucket.com/albums/oo117/b_neff/100_2461.jpg
http://i367.photobucket.com/albums/oo117/b_neff/100_2462.jpg
http://i367.photobucket.com/albums/oo117/b_neff/100_2463.jpg
Here are the links to my layouts of the statement I made to the parole board
http://i367.photobucket.com/albums/oo117/b_neff/100_2470.jpg
http://i367.photobucket.com/albums/oo117/b_neff/100_2471.jpg
I did another layout tonight. It seemed like a good time to do one since I was thinking about Marcy anyway!
http://www.studiocalico.com/forums/galleries/show/14311
I really like this blog - what a great idea! I have already found some wonderful inspiration here & look forward to creating more pages about my mom. Telling stories about her or my feelings after her passing has always been difficult but I now feel more inspired to get some of it down on paper. Below are links to a couple of pages I've done previously:
http://www.twopeasinabucket.com/pg.asp?cmd=display&layout_id=1428696
http://www.twopeasinabucket.com/pg.asp?cmd=display&layout_id=1206223
I love this blog!!!
Here's my layout:
http://jennifermanis.blogspot.com/2009/09/gifts.html
Ok this was hard but I do feel better getting this down on paper.
http://simplydeneen.typepad.com/simply_deneen/
Great Blog - thanks for the challenges
Here is mine
http://steph-nerdbird.blogspot.com/2009/09/good-grief.html
Love this blog and this challenge was the push I needed to create this layout.
Thanks!
http://everythingflowersfromwithin.blogspot.com/2009/09/hey-i-made-scrapbook-page.html
Hope that worked!!!
I completed this page last year at this time for another challenge blog. I had hoped to have another page done for this challenge, but I don't think it will get done today :)
http://slightlyscatterbrained.blogspot.com/2008/09/creative-therapy.html
I already posted previously but thought I would share this layout too. Thanks again for this great blog!
http://www.twopeasinabucket.com/pg.asp?cmd=display&layout_id=1472591
This is a great challenge and a great blog. Here's mine:
http://www.scrapinstyletv.com/userfiles/14/14842/image_full_309818.jpg
Slowly but surely I am doing these challenges...,maybe eventually I will catch up to the current challenge!
http://www.twopeasinabucket.com/gallery/member/76532-brookehc/1608503-7-weeks-later/