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 Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Inspired by Your Words, Your Story
11/18/2008 9:42:43 AM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)

I’ll be honest: I find journaling to be a chore.  I know, it’s surprising, me being an editor and all. I do love writing and reading and editing, but for some reason I can never find the right words to put on a layout.

Enter Your Words, Your Story. One of the things I realized while reading the book was that I put too much pressure on myself to write the “perfect” words; after all, my layouts don't have an editor to go along with them. But the book taught me that the important thing is getting the story on a page—no perfection required.



After reading the section called “Just Get It Written,” which includes Michele’s layout (above) chronicling the story of her daughter’s birth, I was inspired to do a layout about the story of my marriage proposal. I took the just-do-it/no-perfection mantra to heart and just wrote and wrote. I didn’t even proofread the story (gasp!) before printing it out.  With all the text on the page, I kept my layout design simple:


Patterned paper (BasicGrey); vinyl letter stickers (American Crafts)


Thanks, Michele, for showing even your editor how to add meaningful journaling to a layout!

You can read more about Your Words, Your Story here.  Click here to find out how to enter the Your Words, Your Story

And stay tuned for more inspiration and Your Words fun later this week! giveaway.

~Kristin


layout inspiration | Memory Makers Books | journaling
11/18/2008 9:42:43 AM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)  #  Comments [0] 
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