Circle Journal

This is Nena's Truth or Dare Journal. She had us take a truth and a dare. The truth I choose was to tell about an embarassing kitchen moment. The dare was to use lots and lots of texture on the page.

This layout recalls a day during the summer in HS when my dad asked me to fry some frozen french fries for lunch. I didn't turn off the stove correctly and the skillet caught fire. I did try to use a fire extingusher, but hit the fire in the wrong spot and it jumped up to the vent-a-hood above. There was plastic on the hood since it was not drawing air, but blowing and that started to melt. I finally got the fire out with baking soda, but there was some damage. Since we lived in a parsonage, the church had to know. Boy did I get teased for years afterward about cooking fries.

For this LO I used lots of scraps as well as some yummy metallic pp that Nancyroo gave me (thanks Nancy!) Lots of torn and curled edges a little ribbon, some thickers and ink all add texture. The pictures are from the internet and I cut the boring white background away from the fire extingusher and sanded the edges of the others to add another layer of texture. So this CJ goes in the box and to the PO tomorrow. Headed your way, Cheri!

Scrap Whispers Challenge/Truth or Dare Challenge Layout

This layout is a "kill 2 birds with 1 stone" layout. The Scrap Whispers challenge for this week was to spend time journaling. My Truth or Dare challenge for my own T or D Circle Journal was to "create a layout using photos of reflections." I cut the title with Cricut Design Studio using the Old West cartridge. The journaling comes in 2 parts. On the left page is a Bible verse: And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord's Glory are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit. 2 Corinthians 3:18. The other part says: "It has always been my goal to lead my children in their faith so that they will reflect the Lord in their lives. I often thought that meant the future, but so often that meant the future, but so often right now, I see it as they go about their normal lives. They have such reflected glory."

The pictures are from a photo challenge last year. Oh and if anyone wants to say I didn't follow my own rules in putting my picture with the journaling in the layout, look behind the flash in the top photo. That's me!

Truth or Dare: Adventures in Circle Journals

A circle journal, for those that are unfamiliar with the term, is a scrapbook that is passed around a group. Each member of the group starts her own book with a particular theme. Often each person chooses a different theme, but for this particular circle journal (CJ) each person is doing the theme Truth or Dare. Each member is starting her own book with truths (regular challenges) and dares (harder challenges). We will mail these books at the first of each month, completing a layout based on either a truth or dare for someone else's book each time until we get our own book back at the end.

This is the fourth CJ I've done with several of these ladies and it's been so much fun. I'm excited to get this one going!

My Cricut and Design Studio got a workout getting my CJ set up. The title page words were cut with the Opposites Attract cartridge. Next comes my intstructions pages. I chose to scrap the definitions of "truth" and "dare" just for fun. Then for my sign in pages with the challenges, I used the card feature on the Paisley cartridge (thanks again Amy C.!!!!) As you can see from the Dare page, each card has a cute little cut-out that allows the background pages to show through. Kat choose the background paper. She saw it going through Hobby Lobby and told me I HAD to get it for my CJ. So of course, I did :D. My only disappointment here is the scan of the dare page. The letters are actually hot pink foiled chipboard and they scanned very dark.

Okay, girls, let's get this going! Cheri, mailing soon! Have fun!