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Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Wow...A Published Scrapbooker - with wheels!

Welcome to the Your Story Matters e-book blog hop.  You should have arrived her via Paivi.  If not, check the list below to be sure you catch all of our participants.  Looking for inspiration?  Looking for ways to document the little things in life?  Look no further!  Read on and find out how you can get your hands on this fantastic e-book resource with contributions by the Scrap Happy community under the direction of Lain Ehmann and Dani Taylor.

Over the summer, an exciting scrappy opportunity came my way.  Lain Ehmann, of the renowned LOAD challenge and Scrap Happy membership site, with help from Dani Taylor, solicited layout contributions from the talented and super supportive scrappy sisterhood.   The challenge was to create layouts about our own personal stories.  Not the big life events, but little everyday things that still very much matter.  Things like your first car, what's in your purse, the view from your front porch, your morning routine, to name a few.  I'm always game for a little inspiration and motivation to complete another layout, so I signed up.  I never thought  the end result would yield a PUBLISHED layout in the e-book entitled Your Story Matters!  ME...a published scrapbooker!  How cool is that?   Here is my contribution to this inspiring resource:


 My assignment was to complete a layout about my first car.  My Big Brown Buick.  It wasn't a cool or sporty car, as you can see, not even back in 1984!   It had belonged to my sister-in-law's retired aunt, but this 7 year old sedan was generously given to me gratis...provided I pay for the insurance.  It was my ticket to freedom, and sporty or not, I gratefully accepted the gift.

As for creating the layout, I decided I wanted to keep a monochromatic look.  Cars aren't really brown these days and emphasizing that does help to drive home the outdated "first car" feel (either that or it horribly dates me!)  I found the papers in Echo Park's, "Note to Self" paper pack perfect.  The arrows and spirograph looking paper seemed to fit the car theme.  And as a side note, this car had horrible brakes and terrible traction.  It would spin out with even the slightest amount of rain and forget about ice!  So, that spirograph paper has even MORE significance!  As for the tire track paper, I just broke out one of my son's matchbox cars, rolled it around in my ink pad and did some "donuts" on some kraft paper!  The finishing touches included a Studio Calico wood veneer car, a Cosmo Cricket wood tone arrow and a sticker from the "Note to Self" pack that I fashioned with a red arrow to look like a speedometer.  A pretty well-appointed layout, don't you think?

And while Your Story Matters was originally available exclusively to Scrap Happy members, it is now available to the general public for an introductory price of $7 via instant download.  Use the coupon code HOP and receive $2 off the purchase price.  Offer valid until midnight on 1/21/13. Just follow the link below to purchase a resource that is fully loaded with inspiration!


We will be giving away THREE copies of the book from comments made on ALL blogs participating in this hop.  Leave a comment telling me what story is critical for every scrapbooker to document by 1/19/13 for a chance to win.  Winners will be announced on the Layout A Day blog on Monday, 1/21/13.  Prizes must be claimed by Wednesday, 1/23/13.

Interested in seeing some other samples of what's included in this amazing resource?  Just follow the list below.  Your next stop will be Kelli     

Lain Ehmann: http://layoutaday.com
Paivi Eerola: www.peonyandparakeet.com
Lynnette Nagle: sassyscrapper2010.blogspot.com    YOU ARE HERE!


And see...I didn't even try to sell you the undercoating!





29 comments:

  1. Didn't know there was a book coming out. I need to get back to my ScrapHappy family ... miss interacting with everyone. Thanks for a chance to win a copy of the book.

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  2. hehehe... I wouldn't have bought the undercoating if you had tried to sell it!
    Love your story... sparks a memory or two that have been needing to be scrapped for a while. I guess I best get to them.

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  3. I would rather tell about my first true love car...my Sebring convertible that I bought all by myself. Id still like another one someday. Great layout.

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  4. Oh, I love your car layout. I wish I had a picture of my first car! My dad bought it from my cousin and it was so awful - a '64 Ford Falcon STATION WAGON. What every girl wants for her first car! LOL

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  5. Vroom vroom! Not as bad as my baby blue Plymouth Horizon! Car layouts are a must!

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  6. I'm a Kraft addict so this page speaks to me right off the bat! I love the tire marks. :) Also, your office supply "certified" touch gives the retro look you need for a Buirk (mispelling intentional)

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  7. What a wonderful layout its funny how you always remember what your first car was and what it looked like! I had a Pontiac 6000 with a radio that didn't work but it got me from one place to another and I only had to pay for the car insurance. I loved that car!

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  8. Love that page! My first car was a cute little ford LN-7 that I totalled in a snow storm before I'd even had it a month. After that, I drove a Yugo. I don't care how uncool Yugo's were, I STILL love that little car.

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  9. Love your layout!!! I'm so excited to be a part of this with you!!!

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  10. Love your big brown buick! I was just telling my teenagers the other day that I drove my parents 12 passenger dodge van to school. I could fit a lot of people in it! Maybe it wasn't the best idea my parents had...

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  11. I like the quilt-like look of your layout. I'd have to dig back to 1970 to find a picture of my first car - a very pale blue Ford Pinto. Thanks for giving us a chance to win the book which should be a great source of inspiration. Libby Wiers

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  12. LOL! Love the squealing tire tracks!! Such fun being a part of this with you!

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  13. Love your layout. I had an Oldsmobile as my first car. Not cool, but nice! I will have to scrap it...wonder if my dad has any photos of it. It is important to scrap stuff like this as well as fears, hopes and dreams.

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  14. Love the car layout! I'm not sure what the most critical story is to tell but I do think that all stories that are told are important. I hope that one day when I'm gone those who read my scrapbooks will learn something about our family through them.
    Julie

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  15. Thanks so much for sharing the LO, very cute!

    All the things that touch you are important! I just get overwhelmed wanting to put them down!

    PS if you are a facebook fan you could leave a vote for me on a LO I made recently https://www.facebook.com/persnicketyprints?sk=app_451684954848385&app_data=view-vote%2Cfor-169349

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  16. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE that you use your son's matchbox car to create your background paper! My first car was about that same color! I really need to write the story of that car because there are MANY stories to tell about it! Great job, Lynette! Congrats on being published!

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  17. So proud of you! Bought the book, love it. xoxo-A

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  18. What a fun layout bout your car :) it's fun to scrapbook about our stuff too .. How cool!

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  19. One night I wrote down every car I've owned and got pictures from the internet. I intended to scrap them someday...but someday hasn't come! I'll have to do that--love this page!

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  20. I love the story behind the page and I think maybe seeing your process can make me better at what I love to do.
    Thanks for the chance to win

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  21. Love the vintage style to match the vintage car!!!! Great LO Lynette - so fab to have been part of this with you!

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  22. I am SO loving the prompts I've been seeing, and first car? Perfect! My mind is churning right now, planning layouts about my first TWO cars (I'm on my third). Thanks for the inspiration!

    If other scrappers are like me, they document everyone ELSE'S life and not their own. I think it's important to do a page listing little-known facts about YOU. I did that once, and even good friends were surprised by some of the things I put down. I still love that page, and I did that two years ago.

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  23. The important thing for me right now is to include journaling on each page I do. I believe that feelings and emotions should be journaled too wherever possible too. That way I can tell the story of myself too.

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  24. I believe every scrapper should scrap something that they are passionate about! If you don’t have a passion???? Ask God for it! He will surely give you one and it may just be HIM! Many blessings and congrats on being published.

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  25. Scrapbooking your everyday life is especially important for future generations! Thanks for the opportunity!

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  26. I keep going back to documenting your 'life's defining moments'. For some reason that theme is sticking with me. And I need to get my own documented. Those moments changed my life and entire outlook. GREAT layout- and congrats for becoming a published scrapper! woo hoo!

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  27. Lynnette, thank you for sharing your special story. I am sorry about the trouble you had with your car; I am glad that you are ok.

    Wow, I hope that I have pic of my first car somewhere; if I don't I know that I have a pic of my second. As a scrapper, I now love taking pics of those everyday and momentous occasions to saver.

    Congrats on being published,

    Renee

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  28. Hi there, just reading more of your blog. I didn't make it into this blog hop, but I'm the other first car in the book!!! You've inspired me to make a post about the book, even if it is after the blog hop!

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