i've been patiently waiting to share this layout. and now is the perfect time. because as much as i love red and pink, this blog needs some color after all those valentine's projects. and this layout is full of color!
let me start with my inspiration piece. this folder that the girls and i found at target, at back to school time. a periodic text message table. on a folder (they did have this on notebooks and stuff too). how cool is that! of course, alyssa thought it was awesome and had to get it. and the entire time, i'm thinking that this would be a great thing to have to look back on, years from now. to be able to show later generations how kids these days "talk", which is through text speak. lol! so i picked one up for myself on another target run. just so happened, that i received an assignment from creating keepsakes about this same time. and one of the ideas they were looking for, was a layout about teen slang. hello? any idea how quickly i jumped on that one? lol! right away, i knew i would use this folder.
as seen in the january 2010 issue of Creating Keepsakes magazine. copyright creative craft groups. posted with prior permission from the publisher.
and that is how this layout came to be. i ended up going to buy another folder, because i wasn't totally sure about how i was going to cut it up. i ended up just cutting out the two main parts of the periodic table and adhering them to my cardstock background. i found a few photos of alyssa texting, and doing her thing. she got her cell phone a few months after she turned 11 years old. and she's a pro at the texting. me? not so much.
but with this periodic table, i can understand what she's typing. i know a few of these of course. you all know i know "LOL". and i know "BFF", and "ROFL", "TTYL", "BTW", and some other common ones. but most of these, i would never figure out on my own. i honestly, LOVE that i scrapped this. i LOVE that this will be in a scrapbook, for the girls to look back on years and years from now. when there will be an entirely new teen slang way of talking to each other.
for the rest of the layout, i just choose some other fun embellishments that were full of color. alyssa is really big on the peace sign these days, so the chipboard "peace" sign was a natural choice. it's from an old kit of the month. the "text me" flair button, and the pattern paper is from the making memories just chillin collection. the library card and the label sticker are both from creative cafe. i just love how this turned out. and it even got the vote of approval from the girls 😉
Laura Vegas 
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