Blog: Pieces Of Us 2024: How We Met - Ali Edwards Design Inc.

This week I'm responding to the Pieces Of Us prompts and telling some stories in the notebook. You're invited to play along no matter how you choose to document these stories. Pieces Of Us can be about any relationship including spouses, partners, pets, parents, children, etc. My plan is to share today on the blog and Instagram. For the rest of the week I'll share daily on my Instagram and at the end of the week I'll share a full look here on the blog.

Have fun with it!

For this project I'm documenting more about my relationship with Aaron. For the "How We Met" prompt I decided to dive back into my Facebook archives and find the first messages between us. I took screenshots of the messages and then arranged them on a canvas in Photoshop (4.25 in x 8.25 in) and printed here at home.

As I was thinking about how I wanted to tell this story I picked out these 4 inch x 4 inch cards from the current One Little Word® Mini Kit to use as inserts. There are only 6 of them so there aren't enough for each prompt but I'll figure something out as we go along - maybe replace one of them with extra photos cropped to the same size. To add it as an insert into the notebook I folded along the edge of the card and added red line tape before adhering it to the back of the photo collage. Then I adhered the entire photo collage to a page in the notebook.

On the front of the 4x4 card I used our Alphas Are Awesome #14 stamp set to add "how we met" and then used sticker paper to add my journaling to the back.

I created the photo collage using a Photo Booth photo strip and repeating it multiple times on the same canvas before printing.

Love recounting another piece of our origin story!

PS: You might notice that the prompts are out of order in the notebook! You can choose to cover up the pages like I'm doing or simply add your story to the corresponding page in the notebook. Get your stories in there!