AYM By the Numbers

This month, I challenged the club to come up with 8 lessons we learned from our moms. Here are the results:

Carla M. used the zentangle technique on her "mom" letters. She said it took her a few hours, but was a lot of fun to do. Basically, it's intricate doodling. It does look like fun.

 Erin---I really like how she journaled down the right side and used the old lace behind her "mom."

 Carla B. amazes me at how quickly she puts her layouts together---and they always look great.

Jeanne's layout---as my sister, I think it's funny that we picked one of the same pictures to use. She had more pictures of her and mom than I did. She also thought to use mom's First Communion picture.

Janet's layout has some great old pictures. I always envy the people that have pictures from their childhood. We just didn't have that many. I don't think my parents owned a camera until the 1960's. Anyway, I like how Janet used the patterned paper to cut out her letters to match the skirt on her doll.

I really like how Susan covered her "mom" with the plaid paper and used the "8" as the center of the "O." She read her journaling to us, but hadn't yet typed it up for her page. 

Karolyn's layout. I have to say, I am always jealous to see what she does. She has THE most amazing memorabilia from her childhood. She made a pocket on the right that has all kinds of fun things from when she was little to go along with the lessons she learned from her mom---including sewing---she used an old pattern to cover her "mom."

This is Pam's layout. Several of us journaled down the side of the page. She covered her "mom" with the lime green printed paper that was in the kit. I like how she decorated it with the flowers.

My layout. I incorporated my doll in to the title by cutting a row of paper dolls to spell "lessons." Susan and I had the same idea of using the tickets as the base for our numbers.

A few more things:

 This is Carla B.'s layout from last month.

 Susan had a good idea. She tied bows on to each of her strap hinge albums and attached initials to signify who the album belongs to.

Next month's assignment is to tell 3 stories from elementary school. I'm anxious to see what they all come up with. I included lots of fun school related items in the kit---pencils, assorted school papers, school bus die cut, penmanship paper for journaling and several other fun things.

I'm trying to get a photo of my grade school, but I'm not sure I'll be able to.