With the spring comes a favorite tradition that many people enjoy—a good old fashioned Easter egg hunt. Who doesn’t love heading out on an adventure and seeing what fun treasures they can find? This month, in our April issue of Creating Keepsakes, our 2008 Scrapbooker of the Year, Mandy Douglass, challenges you to try fun hidden journaling techniques on your layouts. Finding hidden surprises on a page is always a fun for everyone, don’t you think?!
Egg Hunt by Mandy Douglass
Inspired by Mandy’s challenge, I incorporate hidden journaling on this layout I created about my son’s birthday. I wanted to showcase some of the cool things he had done while he was nine, and he and I decided that it would be fun to write down his “top 9” favorite things for that year.
- Nine by Lori Anderson
Because I enlarged a few of the photos, I didn’t have quite enough space on my one page layout for his list, so I placed a tab on the list and tucked it behind the main photo on my page. Now, I have the memories of his “top 9” recorded, and he knows that his memories are always tucked in a special place on the layout.
Nine by Lori Anderson
Check out Mandy’s challenge today on page 107 of our April issue, and don’t forget to take Mandy’s challenge to place a hidden element on your next page! Be sure to post your creations in our gallery so that we can see the wonderful things you create!
Lori Anderson
Senior Editor, Creating Keepsakes
P.S. Join Mandy this Friday, as our guest blogger right here on the Creating Keepsakes blog. She’ll be sharing even more creative ways to incorporate hidden journaling onto your layouts!
Lori-
I’m leaving a comment here because I’m not sure where else to direct it. A couple weeks ago you did an entry on Jessica Sprague’s Computer Tricks. There was a contest associated with it but I never saw any winners posted. Were they picked and I just missed the post? Curious, as I would love to be one of the winners!
What happened to the website? No warning, my LOs disappeared and the MB is gone. Help?
Thanks for asking, Steffanie S. I’m in the same boat. I’ve been patiently waiting for the winner announcements!
I’ve never done any hidden journaling because
“How do you read it?”
I always put my layouts in page protectors–and would have to pull it out to read the journaling—-Who wants to do that?—NOT ME.
AM I missing something???????????
I won one of your blog giveaways durring your CHA recap. I have never gotten anything and my emails have been ignored. Can I get an update as to whats going on?
Reply to Vicki-
If you have top-loading pages (ie.,page protector opens on top), you can place hidden journaling near the opening as Lori did on her LO and pull it out for reading. Same would be true for side opening, just place a pull tab near the opening. I totally understand where you’re coming from when it comes to something like Mandy’s with the fold-out journaling. I’ve heard of people cutting slits in their page protectors to accomodate the fold-out. Not for me!
Hi Joli,
I’m going to take your great question, but first I must apologize to you. I sent email responses to all winner confirmations I received. I’m not sure why you didn’t receive my message. I’m sorry about the confusion.
Please know that all of the CHA prizes where boxed and handed off to our warehouse. If they haven’t gone out already (and I hope they have), they should any day now. (They’ve been a bit backed up. I’m sorry about the delay.)
While we’re on the subject, we have yet to receive a few of our winner confirmation emails. If you haven’t done so already, please double check our list of winners and see if your name is on it. Thanks!
http://creatingkeepsakesblog.com/2009/02/24/and-the-winner-is/
Best,
Megan
Hi Jennifer,
I will also respond to your comment. I’m very sorry that your projects aren’t in your gallery. As mentioned in my blog post last week, we switched on our new website this week. You can read more about that here: http://creatingkeepsakesblog.com/2009/03/19/ck-website-update/
Please know that your projects aren’t lost. Instead, they’re in the process of transferring over. If you have a minute, please email our webmaster (webmaster@ckmedia.com) with your list of missing projects. From what I’ve been told, this will help further expedite the transfer process. (This goes for anyone who reads this and has missing content to report.)
I’ve also been told that our message boards will be up and running very soon. So please check back again soon for that.
On behalf of the entire CK team, please accept my apology for these quirks you’re experiencing. Thanks so much for your message. Ultimately, we feel the updated site will be better than ever (thanks to feedback we’ve received from you, our users), but all of the content will need to be moved over before that can happen. Our web team is working very hard to see that that happens in a timely manner. In the meantime, please know that your patience is sincerely appreciated during this transition period.
Warmly,
Megan
Megan -
I appreciate your response. I got an email from you on 2/26 confirming that you had received my address. I guess the shipping department must still be working on getting those out.
Thanks,
Joli
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