Free Digital Word Art | Love In Action
Tags:I received a request a couple week's ago from a woman in Alabama who has been living through the recent tornado devastation. She's doing Project Life and wondered if I had any hand-drawn packages that included words related to disaster and devastation. I didn't.
I emailed her back and asked her if she had a list of words she'd like to see. This set is a compilation of her list and a couple I added. I loved that her list included both words of loss and hope.
I'm offering this set for free in the hopes that it will encourage more people to tell their own real life stories.

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Thank you very much Ali!
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Ali this is such a beautiful gift. Thank you ever so much! You have been such an inspiration to me = just so generous with your classes, art, and time. Thanks a million.
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Thank you for the freebie. I always love your handwriting. I lived in Alabama for 4 years and am thankful that I never had to live through a disaster. I am still praying for the people in Alabama and I'm greatful that my friends are all ok. I will use these to journal my thoughts and prayers.
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Thank You Ali!
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Hi Ali, thank you very much! This wordart set got me thinking about "LOVE IN ACTION"--how it manifests. Am going to brainstorm and see if I can't scrap about it :) Thank you again!
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Ali, thanks for making these. My Grandmother died two and a half years ago literally in the middle of Hurricane Ike. We planned her funeral without electricity and with the rawest emotions I have ever seen. I did document my feelings and thoughts then about her death and my feelings, and how my family dealt with it. I would like to go back though, and document how I feel now. How I still ache when I see someone die suddenly in a movie or see that a hurricane has struck tragedy in someone's life, or when I think about how different our family is without her- it is broken. How my Grandfather still cannot talk about her without his voice breaking. I think people hear about rebuilding after hurricanes/tornadoes/earthquakes/etc, and they seem to think things are getting a lot better for those families, but it is so much harder than our family could have ever imagined. We are getting there though.
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Although I hope to never have to use some of the words in this set, i appreciate why it is out there and thank you for the download. We've had our share of disasters and understand that it too, deserves to be remembered and documented.
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Oh Ali - you have to be one of the most thoughtful people in the world - sorry we have many these words in our lives, but thank you for giving us a beautiful way to express them
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Thank you so very much for this. We haven't experienced a large disaster but we had a near tragedy in our own backyard a few weeks ago and we nearly lost our son. I've been blogging the accident and our stay at Doernbecher's as a kind of therapy as well as for our family record. When I'm up to scrapping it, some of these words will help so much. Thank you.
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Hi Ali!
Thank you so much for these words!!
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oh how generous of you ali. God bless your kind heart.
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[...] victim in Alabama enquiring about products related to disasters, Ali Edwards created this set of hand written word brushes. She is offering them as a free download on her blog. Click here to see what Ali had to say and to [...]
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[...] Love in Action from Ali Edwards [...]
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Thanks for the download. It is really great to see product that reflects tragedy. There is a perception among non-scrapbookers that scrapbookers sugarcoat our lives in our scrapbooks, but we don't. We do scrapbook the negative. We do scrapbook tragedies. We do scrapbook the crap that everyone else deals with. Thanks for acknowledging that we don't just scrapbook the positive aspects of our lives.
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Thank you very much for being so kind and generous.
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Thanks ali - my family is living in Chch after the earthquakes we've had there. it will be good to have something like this to include in the layouts we're putting together. thanks for your generosity.
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Thank you for this word art set. You are so very generous.
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Ali, I wanted to thank you for these words. While it doesn't include "flood", it makes me realize I can, should, and will include the flooding along the Missouri River. It took us 37 hours this week to evacuate our home and leave it still dry in preparation of flooding in our neighborhood.
Standing high on a bluff next to the river today and seeing all the farmland and homes that are already underwater was awesome (not in a good feeling way). While we are blessed to be out, it is still scaring to watch the water creep closer and closer.
Blessings,
P.J.
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Ooops! Flood is on the list. So much for reading the fine print.
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thank you Ali - so powerful. I am deeply touched by your generosity and thoughtfulness!
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Hi Ali...i wanted to thank you so much for the beautiful word art, I have thankfully not had to experience any weather devastation but i was looking for word art to remember my daughter who passed away at only 35 weeks. It is really hard for me to put into words all my feelings and your words have prompted me to journal this traumatic event. Thanks again Ali!
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