My Story...

I decided today that I would create an 8x8 album called "My Story...". It would be a simple album to tell my story of where I have been, where I am at, and where I am going. And I will share this journey with you, too. As the weeks and months go by, I will be adding to this album to simply tell a story - my story. I hope that it inspires you to do the same in some form or another. 

The page itself is made up of five shades of cardstock. I wanted to keep each layout simple to focus more on the stories. The most unique thing about this layout; however, is that I printed my photo onto cardstock as well. I used French Vanilla Bazzill cardstock for this technique. Then I distressed the edges of the photo with my edge distresser. For all of the cardstock I used the direct to paper technique to ink the edge with chalk ink to add a softness to the page. I used small scrabble letters from my stash and stained them with distress stain to match the layout for the title area. 

The story for this page: "Our lives are always being written and we have no ending."

The supplies that I used are shown below:

{ippity} stamp - Books a' Flutter

Memento Ink - Rich Cocoa

Distress Stain - Wild Honey

Chalk Ink -Gingerbread

Tim Holtz Edge Distresser

Copic Markers Used: 

BG72 - Ice Ocean

BG75 - Abyss Green

C1 - Cool Gray No. 1

YG91 - Putty

YG93 - Grayish Yellow

YR18 - Sanguine

YR21 - Cream

YR23 - Yellow Ochre

Zig Writer - Chocolate

Enjoy!