I have a story to tell...I was born to Socorro and Roberto, both immigrants from Michoacan, Mexico...I am child number 5.....my little brother is a year younger than me, he stole my thunder...I grew up in a drug and gang infested neighborhood in East Los Angeles....I have a story to tell....we grew up poor and my mom sewed some of my clothes out of remnants...my Mom was diagnosed with lupus when I was about 7 years old, I was young and I wish I could have done more to help her...I have a story to tell....I am now 42 and I had my share of mistakes, trials and tribulations, but with God by my side whom shall I fear?
Boy oh boy did I ever struggle with this challenge. Above is just an excerpt of my hidden journaling. I'm sure most of you have seen shirts with the saying "Scrap booking is cheaper than therapy"? I don't know if that is true but I can tell you it
IS therapy. :)
I'm entering this layout in Jessica's challenge over at
CSDivas. You can hop on over and check it out.
I was flipping through House Beautiful May '11 issue, searching for a color combo for a different challenge, when I came across this silohoutte overlay. It's an ad for KraftMaid kitchen cabinetry.
And here's what I did with it:
The pink butterfly paper with "jolie" written on it is by SEI Chocolat, a gift for my birthday from
Gaby. (gracias Gaby). All other paper is from K & Company including the title block and flower die-cuts. Flowers are from Prima and bling by Darice. Part of the challenge was to include lyrics of your favorite song or one that inspires you, I printed excerpts of Who am I by Casting Crowns. This is the first layout about me. I hope you join the challenge and create a layout about you and Tell Your Story. :):)
33 comments:
So beautiful. I like how you share where your inspiration came from.
Wow, Yolie, I got tears in my eyes from both your exerpt and the beautiful LO. You are so right about it being therapy. Your project is muy padre!
This is stunning and such a unique layout! I LOVE it! TFS!
♥Ashley
Amazing post, your lay-out is truly beautiful and wonderful!
Oh my gosh your layout is amazing. Your a beautiful person and your layout is also. I love what you created with the mag page. WTG and awesome journaling
I love what you did with the ad--that looks like you! Lovely job; lovely layout.
The layout is absolutely exceptional..the story behind it is heartfelt. The color combinations are truly perfect.. Thanks so much for sharing all of this. This is quite an inspiration to get up and do a "me" page.. very very well done!
Really Beautiful!......the hardest thing is to write about yourself, you have done it so well.
Great post,very nice layout.
Wow!! Absolutely gorgeous, gorgeous layout. Your sharing is very brave and only makes you stronger!! Remember EVERYONE has a story!! Thanks for sharing!!
Laurie
sernityscrappers
Yolie, that is so gorgeous! I can't even put into words how wonderful this Lo is!! What a neat page in a magazine to use as inspiration.
And you are so right, crafting is therapy! I am a cancer survivor and crafting has been a great source of therapy for me.
Absolutely stunning Yolie. Thank you so much for sharing it.
Great layout and thanks for sharing your story!!
That is an amazing LO with the overlay~inspiring! Ah, scrapbooking...it's all about the stories!
absolutely stunning!! it takes a true creative person to take an ad about kitchen cabinets and make it into a beautiful layout. Bravo, girl - you did a great job.
Beautiful!! I love what you did with the magazine pic! Thanks for sharing a small part of your life!
Gorgeous layout and I love how you shared your inspiration too.
Oh my Yolie this page is absolutley beautiful... I sooooo love it... Great use of the magazine insert.... Perfect.
OMGoodnes Yolie, how did you do that? LOVE IT!! ...OK more detail to my comment...
You had me at your journal entry!!! followed by how did you do the silhouette, SHARE! .. and of course your page is beautiful specially for being the first about YOU!!! Love, Gaby
OMG Yolie love the silhouette too How did you do that? Beautiful layouts and so heartfelt on the story about you and well done!! TFS
Hugs
Yolie - This is an amazing layout. Simply stunning. You are right: scrapbooking is therapy. There's an entire class on it on Big Picture Scrapbooking and my grief counselor had me work through a lot of stuff with scrapbooking too.
Wow------What a beautiful layout. Thanks for sharing this story.
Wow!!! Your layout is gorgeous!!!!! I love the colors and the way you put it together! And, I know what you mean about the therapy! I normally wouldn't share so much of my personal thoughts either, but I just felt compelled this time... Thanks for your sweet comment on my layout!
This is absolutely stunning,wow. Love it all. I love your story also. I also believe scrapping is my therapy...keep up the great work
beautiful layout and a inspiring story. hugs
Great layout; Hoppin by from TGIF Link Party - i invite you to check out my card as well. Jacqueline
That´s gorgeous!Lovely idea! Have a lovely easter weekend :) Janna
This is a fabulous layout!! And I too am a HUGE fan of Casting Crowns!!!! Great choice in songs! :D You have to let me know which albums you have and which ones you don't so i can send you some music ;)
Kelli
favor8favors.blogspot.com
A wonderful image for your oage- a wonderful set of pages you have created!
Your LO is absolutely gorgeous, such a clever idea with that silohoutte overlay - stunning result ;) Thank you for popping in to my blog to say 'hello', I am now a new follower, too! ;)
Yolie,
Your post is great. And once again....you ROCKED this challenge. I love Casting Crowns and it is a bit ironic that you chose a Kraftmaid Ad because I used to work at Kraftmaid about 13 years ago....funny, huh?!?
GREAT AND FABULOUS....TOTALLY DIVA WORTHY!
LOVE IT... love it! I really do hope you will share how you used the silohoutte! Wonderful job there lady!!
this is amazing! so beautiful!
Thank you so much for joining the party @ Inspire Me Fridays!
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