Today I’m sharing a page all about me! It talks about my love of games and sport... and my deep dark secret... I hope this little sneak peek into what I’m scrapping will inspire you to play with pretty pixels too.

Layout: I'm Competetive

Create the look

For a story-heavy page, I find it helpful to begin with the journalling and just type it all out.

I love using a handwriting font for my journalling to add a personal touch.

Select a few photos and resized them all to fit in a column. Add a white border - as I do on most pages to help the photos stand out! Fill in any white space with embellishments.

Use a painted background to add interest to the plain cardstock.

Use the remaining space to admit your own failings 🤣... I combined alphas and a font for the long title.

You can add interest to the title with a ribbon and strip of patterned paper to finish the page.

Journaling

I am competitive. I have a family who loves being competitive. I have in-laws who are competitive. I naturally compare things and comment on similarities and differences - often out loud. (Yes, that's one thing I've been working on!)

At school and university I would often top the class and a year without an academic excellence certificate was not a good year in my books. In Year 7 I was devastated to only get the Citizenship award rather than the Dux award. But then, 5 out of 7 academic award plus a 3 year scholarship isnât bad.

So I love playing games. But I rarely win. In fact it's a source of great amusement to Phill. My own siblings can't believe Phill never won games growing up (His older brother Steve was the winner!), as he always seems to win on our games nights.

For some reason the thrill of improving and then almost winning is enough for me. I can sit on the sidelines in sport, board games or a debate, or a quiz night even when I have no hope of winning. I will say Iââve slowly become a better loser!

I love to be competitive, but I'm not very good!

Credits

• Studio Memory Clips Simply You
• Kristin Cronin-Barrow Keep Calm

Care to Share?

I’d love to see what you are working on this week. Do you have a layout or two to share? You can add a picture to the comments below.

Happy Scrapping!