Wow - I Won a Free Class!

A couple of weeks ago, Jessica (http://www.jessicasprague.com/) had a little contest for a free class. She'd written a post about Birthday Photo Books - all you had to do was post a comment and they picked a random name (or names?) from the list of people who commented to win a free class.

Well I won one of the prizes (I can't remember how many people they were picking). It is a free class called "Up and Running" and  I'm looking forward to completing this class - it's self-paced, so I can do it at my leisure. A lot of what's in the class is stuff I'm already capable of doing, but there's still lots for me to learn so it'll be exciting to work through the projects in the class. I won't start it until I finish Part 2 of the Type+Writer class I've been doing for the past two weeks, but once I do some things, I'll be sure to post them here.

Hey Little Girl

Here's the latest layout I completed for the Type+Writer class I'm taking at the Jessica Sprague website.

Normally I don't find journalling difficult at all - I might not always love what I write, but it usually comes pretty easily to me. This layout was much harder. Not only did I find it hard to write about myself, but I found that the whole idea of writing to your younger self wasn't comfortable to me. I'm not sure if I found it a bit cliché or if it was just hard to write things knowing what it was like growing up. If I was doing the same type of thing to my own son, or another child, the journalling would have been very easy - but I found it awkward to write something really sweet and fun and positive when I know that growing up can suck at times... hopefully the journalling doesn't come across as totally negative though. I took a few liberties here and there, and overall I'm okay with what I wrote.

Aside from the actual writing, the actual layout techniques were neat to learn. I wish we learned a bit more of the 'meat' of what we were doing somethings, but I'm sure I can flesh out the techniques a bit to be able to apply them to other layouts.

Maybe I'm not typical in that regard. If the lesson calls for me to change a layer style, I love learning how to do that - but I also want to know exactly what that does and what other ways we could use that same technique in other layouts or with other photos.

Now to try to get some of the other layouts completed as Part 2 of this class began yesterday - YIKES!