wanted to share another layout for creating keepsakes a while back.
as seen in the january 2010 issue of Creating Keepsakes magazine. copyright creative craft groups. posted with prior permission from the publisher.
this was done at the same time as my "text messaging" layout. one of the other ideas they were looking for, was to incorporate a letter from your child onto your scrapbook page. just as quickly as i jumped on the teen slang part of the assignment, i also jumped on this idea. and i knew right away what i was going to do it about. sarah and her "i'm sorry" letters. i've mentioned these before. we tend to butt heads a lot, since we're both so much alike. and she isn't a big talker in those moments. but she will write me letters afterwards, saying how sorry she is. and there is usually some other funny stuff in those letters. i have saved most of them from over the years. i even made a folder to keep them in last year, which you can see HERE.
before i start, i have to let you know that sarah is totally fine with the fact that i made this layout, and that it was in a magazine, and that i blog about it. trust me. she's cool with it. i wanted to find some photos that went with the story behind her letters. now, i do actually have photos of her crying her head off and hiding out under tables. i'm the mean mom that takes photos like that of my kids. lol! but those were from when she was little. instead, i went with some of her pouty photos. sarah can pout like no other. she's good at it. 2 of these were from my film days, so they're not the best. but i thought they all went together nicely.
the journaling was really hard to read in the magazine. i know that i love to read people's journaling. i'm nosey like that. lol!
this is one of her actual letters. it was hard to just pick one. but this was the one i picked for the layout. i adhered it to white cardstock, since the notebook paper is so thin. i know sometimes it's hard to read kids writing, unless they're your own kids 😉
"dear mom. you are a really great mom and i love you alot. i am really sorry if i was just sitting there doing nothing. i know that you are mad. but i am really sorry again. but sorry doesn't work for you. i know. so i wanted to say i love you. you are the best mom i could ever have in the whole wide world. and that i am still really sorry that i made you mad. apparently this letter is really special to me and it is making me cry because of what i am saying. i hope you aren't still mad at me. love you. your daughter, sarah"
how cute is that? i so wish i had put the date on these letters. but i know this was from about 3 years ago. she still writes me letters. and i still save them. but now she's fully aware that i save them, so sometimes she'll write me letters just to be funny. lol!
Laura Vegas 
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