Good morning! Thanks for stopping by! Today I am participating in the Simple Scrapper Blog Hop and sharing the layouts I created using the Simple Scrapper Templates available to their members!

My first layout uses one of the templates from the May collection from Simple Scrappers. I had snapped this photo back in December of my grandmother's hands. She is well into her eighty's and I know we probably won't have her around for much longer. This photo sat on my desk, literally for months, while I decided what I wanted to do with it. I ended up journaling about the things her hands had 'saw' throughout their life: she lived in the depression, buried a child and husband, loved on great grand kids.

I love the simplicity of it + how quickly it came together using the May template.


My layout for this month's Story Starter is based off a free template that debuted in October 2012. I choose to journal about how awesome my husband has been this past year. I have been struggling this past year, and Alex has been my rock. He is most definitely awesome.

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My teammates from the Simple Scrapper Design Team have all worked with the templates this month and we'd love for you to check out their blogs and be inspired by their work!