Welcoming Other Voices In Your Scrapbooks & Designer Digitals Sale

Those cheeks are so gosh-darn adorable! Love the picture of the teeth stickin' out.
I just wanted to mention how inspired I have been by your line stacked journaling. It adds a great design impact to journaling. I am totallly hooked on that idea right now and am planning to use it on a page very soon. Thanks for the much-needed inspiration.

I love, LOVE, <3, LOVEEE this LO. TFS!

What a great layout and photo!
Today's post hit close to home for me. My Father died January 3rd, after two months in and out of intensive care. Eight weeks onboard a rollercoaster. After Dad died, I wanted to put together a scrapbook for Mom...but...and it's a big BUT...the problem was how to make a complete picture of life during November and December...if mine was the only voice that was heard.
Ultimately, I used photos taken by at least a dozen differnt family members, caring bridge posts as well as comments left in the guestbook, my daughter's eulogy for her Grandpa, a number of Mom's recipes that Dad loved...in other words, I strove to hear as many voices as possible. The only way, I could find to effectively do that was in a shutterfly book form.
http://share.shutterfly.com/share/received/welcome.sfly?fid=a588e8933ae1c1306cdd16a80fdf8c46&sid=0AZs2TZu2ZMWLsQ
I think it worked.

Hi Nancy - I do both. For single words I usually use the tablet and for sentences/stacks/etc I use pen & paper & scan.

The greens are stunning... that Anna looks so cute in green. :) Love the post.

Ali, she is certainly growing up fast and what a cutie! Your kids are so strong and that is due to you and your husband's love and guidance. Great to see. Love the idea of using other people's words in layouts. Thanks for the idea. Love love the hand drawn sets. I'm learning my pen tablet, but I have a long way to go. So I guess it's off to DD today! Best to you and yours.

wow so touching - my heart goes out to you - what a wonderful way to start the healing process

Great idea on the LO- it is a good reminder to me to let other voices contribute to the scrapbook!
And that picture of Anna is gorgoeus! I cannot believe how fast she is growing! Such a beauty!

I just have to say - you have one of the cutest little girls I have ever seen!

Ali, i just bought the journaling brush set you featured on Anna's pcs here, i dont suppose you could tell me how you colored them and made them appear as a solid on the pic, not just an outline? Thanks, love your design style!