Today marks the beginning of the last scheduled week in our Sweet Talk Journaling Challenge. When I started this series, I made a deal with myself … I would play along with the challenges and make sure that I wasn’t asking anyone to do something I couldn’t do myself in order to earn our special Sweet Talker prize.
Well, as I’m sure many of you can agree, it turns out that it’s a bit overwhelming to try to get 14 challenges done in just 28 days. A handful of participants are close, but I don’t think there is anyone – myself included – that is totally caught up right now.
So here’s the deal … I’m still going to do all 14 challenges myself. And I’m going to save the prizes for others who do the same. But I’m going to extend the deadline for completing and posting your pages. Rather than the original March 3rd deadline, you now have until midnight (Mountain Time) on Wednesday, March 31st to complete & post your pages and qualify for our Sweet Talker prize.
I will stick to the original schedule for introducing the final handful of challenges, which means it’s time today to share our next journaling method to help you get your “real life” scrapbooked.
Are you ready?
Today’s journaling method is one of my absolute favorites, though I must admit – it wasn’t until I started working on my page for this challenge that I’ve ever actually completed one. I could probably fill an entire album, however, with the pages planned in my head. Anytime I catch my kids or my husband doing something that is just so characteristically THEM, I try to snap a photo so I can create one of these pages.
Sweet Talk Journaling Challenge #11
Your challenge today is to tell your story through the use of a diagram, reminiscent of the type of thing you’d see in a high school biology book. The basic format is fairly straightforward – an image with labels and pointers describing the features of that image. Though simplistic, this could apply to just about any object or scene that shares details you want to remember about that particular subject.
If the textbook approach doesn’t appeal to you, use your imagination … just about anything could serve as a pointer, there are all kinds of labels that would work, and there is no limit to the creativity you could apply to the actual wording or choice of subject.
To help get you started, here is one of my favorite examples of using a diagram to tell a story …
"Trey Deconstructed" by R. Steinbeck @ Designer Digitals
If you’d like to see another example before getting started, check out the page I posted in the challenge gallery.
The Rules:
- Pick a topic and create a new scrapbook page uses uses a diagram to share your story.
- Post that page in this album in our Sweet Talk Journaling Challenge Gallery. The deadline for all Sweet Talk Challenge Layouts is midnight (MTN) on Wednesday, March 31st, 2010.
- Visit this thread in our Community Forum and link us up to your layout.
- Once your link is verified, the above Sweet Talk award will appear in your profile and in your signature.
- Keep an eye on this page to track our Log Your Memory Sweet Talkers!
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Please share your thoughts in a comment below …
Wahooo! Thank you for the deadline! Just overwhelmed last week and fell behind.
Thanks so much for extending the deadline. I have been trying to play along, but real life has gotten in the way.
Whoohoo! Thanks for the extension! I am not sure I can complete them all but with the extension, I sure can give it a try
Thanks a ton for the challenges, and the extended deadline! I really wanted to complete this one.
Just adding my appreciation for the extension to the others’ – like them I was hoping to have more done by now. I have an alphabet page done (but not uploaded) and a fairytale page in process, so I am hoping to get there. Love this new challenge – I’d not seen this before, but I am instantly planning my page. This is a great challenge (and is a whole lot easier than LOAD which Lain Eihman is doing from over on her blog – LOAD stands for LayOut A Day, for the uninitiated – for the whole month of February)!
This is so cool! I have the first 3 and 2 other (out of order) pages done and none posted yet. I have been working on these and loving the challenges. My daughter invited me to come and see the challenges mostly because of the educational side of learning how to journal better. I fell in love with the very awesome ideas. I was determined to work hard this week to try to coplete on time but an extension is appreciated. I have copied every challenge in detail for future reference. Tham you so much!