Take Some Time to Scrap about YOU! | Brooke Takara

Yes, I do Project Life, which documents our day-to-day activities. Yes, the majority of the journaling is in my own voice and from my perspective. But it's almost always about my children and my family and how they felt or how I *think* they felt.

I very rarely include snippets about what I'm into at the moment or even photos of myself, since I'm always behind the lens.

So these are things I'm actively working on...taking more selfies, asking others to take the photo and scrapbooking more about me! I'm pledging to keep these tasks at the forefront of my mind so that I'm more of a presence in my scrapbooks. Starting with this project...

This layout documents my favorites for the month of April.

I wanted to use the jumbo black numbers from Heidi Swapp that came in the Pantomime

To drive home the "Love" in the "Love List", I wanted to go crazy with hearts. I drew out a few different style hearts in the colored squares of the Baxter paper and cut them out to use as embellishments.

I adhered the hearts to the page randomly and only put adhesive down the center of the heart so I could flip up the edges for dimension.

After adding a bit of stitching to some of the hearts, I called upon my favorite stamp of the moment (from the Dean add-on kit

I'm patting myself on the back a little because of the title work here. I'm one of those people who never thinks about the title until the layout is 99.9% finished and there's no room left to place a title. Here, I used the wooden "April" from the Lisse Street Project Life® KitDeanHyacinth add-on kit

So there you have it! One of the very few layouts just about me. In fact, now that I think about it, I think it's the first layout to feature a photo of me, by myself, since I scrapbooked in high school!! Whoa.

I'm starting to realize how important it is to remember to document ourselves in our scrapbooks. If anything, just for fun. I think it'll be great to look back on this layout in a year and recall what my favorite things were in April 2015.

I hope to continue to remind myself to do this. And I hope you do too!

Thanks so much for joining me here today! Have a great weekend!!

Supplies Used: Cirque Scrapbook Kit, Pantomime add-on kit, SevenPaper Baxter 023 paper, Dean add-on kit, Lisse Street Project Life® Kit, Hyacinth add-on kit, Tiny Attacher, Color Theory Ink Pad in Inky Black, Precision Pen, Glossy Accents