All About Me Challenge No. 4

Welcome to the 4th All About Me Challenge! I’m so enjoying seeing all of your pages in the AAM Gallery- the last challenge was just full of joy and smiles.

This week’s challenge is a bit different than last week’s and will help to connect your past with your present.

AAM Assignment #4: When I Was Your Age

The assignment for this challenge is to scrap a page with the subject, “When I Was Your Age.” It can be in the form of a letter to someone you care about, it can be funny, it can be serious, it can be advice-driven or it can simply be a page about your childhood. You can choose to tell your kids something about your life as a child or give your adult children some parenting advice. It can also be addressed to a friend or a younger sibling. Anything goes! If you need some journaling prompts, you can start with a list like this:

When I Was Your Age:

I wished…............
I wore…...............
I listened to…......
I loved…..............
I was scared of….
I was friends with…..

This week, I was honored to work with Doris (aka echogirl). Her gallery never fails to amaze and inspire me and this layout is no different. Doris chose to write a letter to her 5-year-old daughter.

Supplies: Pure Kit, Little Shores Kit, Going Away Collection, Naturally Kraft No. 8 Paper Pack, Vintage Sun Prints Paper Pack, Engraved Birds Paper Pack, Spot Dots No. 18 Paper Pack, Letter Box Brushes and Stamps No. 3, Taped Photo Masks No. 1, Stamped Stitch Flowers Brushes and Stamps, Flossy Stitches: White, Mixed Bag Brushes and Stamps No. 3, Paper Flowers No.4, Paper Textures No. 2 BrushSet, Stitched by Anna White No. 2, Worn Page Edges No. 3, Nanyang Paperpack, Stitches and Flowers, Laying It All Out No. 09: Blending In and Standing Out, How’d They Do That? No. 06: Offset Stamping

Our next layout comes from Creative Team Member, Jodi. I gasped out loud when I saw this. What a cool layout! Jodi’s layout is addressed to her daughter and since Jodi didn’t have any photos of herself at her daughter’s age, she asked her daughter to draw a picture of what she thought Mommy might look like at that age.

Supplies: Help Haiti Collaborative Collection, Curled Photo Frames 4x6

My layout is a comparison of me at 12 and my daughter at 12. The inspiration for this challenge came from my daughter, Emily. She’s constantly asking me what kind of music I liked at her age or what was school like at her age. So, I went with a simple list format to show her. And, like Jodi, I don’t have any photos of myself at this particular age so I simply took a photo of my daughter and used it by itself.

Supplies: Ali Edwards’ Believe Layered Template, Caught Red Handed Kit, Colorful Clusters Brushes and Stamps, Le Marche Kit (staples), Round A Bout Felt No. 2, PiRATS of the Caribbean Kit (brad), Whimsy Titles No. 1, 31 Days Circle Numbers

I can’t wait to see your pages this week!

~Steph