Welcome to the All About Me Challenge! Every week, I am amazed by the pages in the AAM Gallery and I just love to see how many people are joining me in this challenge. It’s a lot of work to be introspective and to write about yourself and I’m proud of everyone for taking the time to focus on themselves. However, we all lead very busy lives and school is underway, along with fall sports, football on the weekends, piano practice, and everything else that goes into the busy fall season. So, just as we did in the spring, I I decided to make this week’s challenge a catch up challenge - the goal is to simply catch up on previous assignments.

Here are the 17 challenges we’ve had so far:

AAM Challenge No. 1: Me Now
AAM Challenge No. 2: How Did I Get Here?
AAM Challenge No. 3: What Makes Me Smile
AAM Challenge No. 4: When I Was Your Age
AAM Challenge No. 5: A Day In The Life
AAM Challenge No. 6: I Am So Good
AAM Challenge No. 7: What’s in my purse
AAM Challenge No. 8: What Mom Means to me
AAM Challenge No. 9: Things that make me sad
AAM Challenge No. 10: My Best Friend
AAM Challenge No. 11: Yummy Things
AAM Challenge No. 12: What’s In a Name
AAM Challenge No. 13: The Music of my Life
AAM Challenge No. 14: I Believe
AAM Challenge No. 15: My Style
AAM Challenge No. 16: Right Now
AAM Challenge No. 17: My Books

And check out some of these journaling products that are perfect for this challenge:

Rimmed Journalers No. 1

DIY Sticker Labels

Retro Labels

Can’t wait to see your layouts!

~Steph

Last Wednesday, September 23rd, was the first day of autumn, the Equinox - when night and day are equal.
Before the 16th century, harvest was the term usually used to refer to the Autumn season. Harvest comes from the old English word hærfest, and the first part of the word has Indo-European roots in kerp meaning to gather, pluck, harvest. In agriculture, the harvest is the process of gathering or reaping mature crops from the fields.

This time of year is a great time to celebrate gathering, keeping, and holding a story.  Think about all you’ve done this year - planting new ideas, experiencing and growing new projects- what is the harvest you will be reaping now, as you consider your stories.
What is the story you will be keeping, storing for the future as nourishment for yourself and your loved ones? This might be a good time to think deeply about what you are learning, collecting, reaping form your life experiences.
What do you want to harvest from this year to save as a story?

Here are some beautiful ideas from our Creative Team.  First, look at this elegant design and involving writing from Elena.  She has captured the actual harvest in her area but also drifted deep into the reverie of harvest. She’s got the details that bring you into the story and the overview, too.

Fall Harvest

Page FotoBlendz No. 03 12 X 12
Gemstone Swirls
Bella Solids Paper Pack
Halloween Memories Kit
Inked Alphabet Brushes and Stamps No. 01

Myra took the longer view of harvest….and looked at the lifetime investment of her marriage.  This rich and rewarding page celebrates deep love and the harvest it can bring.  Her writing shows how much can be conveyed in just one page.

A Lifetime Investment

Grid No. 01 Layered Templates
Patterned Palette No 2
Pearl Swirls
Chandelierious No 01
Stitched by Anna Borders No 02
Page Hipster Plume FotoBlendz Clipping Masks No 02
Classic Cardstock: Oyster
Classic Cardstock: Dragon Trainer

Here is a page I did to remember the summer.  This man and his ability to reflect and also act adventurously…. this is something I want to remember about this one summer. I didn’t try to incorporate all my stories.  I just focussed on one that touched me, something I value.

Diamond Watch

Laurent Rub Ons No. 01
Gemstone Swirls
Simply Patterned Value Paper Pack No. 01
Messy Stamped Alphabet No. 08 Brushes and Stamps
Spot Dots Brushes and Stamps No. 06
Halloween Memories Kit
Drawn Leaves No. 01 Brushes and Stamps
Stitched by Anna Threads White No. 01
ScriptTease Winter No. 01 BrushSet
LabelTransfers No. 03 ElementSet

Thanks for checking out PageKraft this time. 
We hope you will share your creations with us in the PageKraft Gallery and that you will continue to WriteTrue.

Congratulations to Adryane. Her layout rainbow tree has been selected as the featured layout of the week where she won a $ 5 DesignerDigitals Gift Certificate for product of her choice!

This week’s inspiration is from new Mom and new gallery poster dcreates. Her unique layouts of her adorable baby have captured lots of people’s attention in the gallery. I love this one, with it’s wonderful twist on a classic “three photos in a row” design:

The border detail, with the incredibly creative use of torn edges and other elements really makes this page shine. Love the combo of the Black and White photos with the gold and grey as well.

Here’s how Jess, Melanie and Bailey were inspired by this great layout:

Credits: layout by Jess, Staple Its!, Fasten its: No.03 and Felt Board Friends: Oh Snap by Pattie Knox, Messy Slab Alpha by Cathy Zielske, Story Strips by Ali Edwards, Maskros Solids and Maskros Paperpack by Michelle Martin, PotPouriiPaperie pieces by Anna Aspnes, Rimmed Frames No.02 by Katie Pertiet.

Credits: layout by Melanie, Messy Stamped Alkphabet No.05, No.06 and No.07, ArtPlay Magic Valueset, Artplay Palette Sports No.01, Digital Date Stamps Vol.15, Grungy Ledger Grids No.02, Cut Ups Birthday, Buttoned Up Numbers, Spot Dots Brushes and Stamps No.01, Just Linens paperpack No.04, Torn and Tattered Fotoframes No.01, King Me Plus Pack, Birthday HandDrawn words.

Credits: layout by Bailey, Spot Dots No.15, Halloween Memories Cardstock (coming soon), Inked Apha brushes and Stamps (coming soon), Watery Fish brushes and stamps, Game Crads:Summer, Postage Strip Words: No.03, and PhotoClusters No.31 by Katie Pertiet, Journaling Labels No.10by Jesse Edwards, Fanciful Felt Ribbons and trims: Baroque and Pearl Swirls by Pattie Knox, Swim Team Stickers No.01 by Art Warehouse.

This week’s Adobe Photoshop or Elements tip of the week is now available on video. This weeks tip is on Resizing Templates in Photoshop and PSE.