We’re shifting our comparisons from layout designs to our actual lives this week in our design team challenge. We asked the design team to create a layout focusing on their own childhoods and how it differed – and perhaps, how it was the same – as the ones our children are experiencing today. The results are journalling-rich gems of information that will only become more meaningful as their children grow up.
The timing of this project couldn't have been better as Caz had recently been chatting to her son Jesse about what she did for fun 'in the olden days' when there was no Foxtel, Playstations, Ipods or other things that the kids seem to be absorbed in these days. Caz took their conversation and elaborated on it in her journaling, including what she watched on tv and what the 'crazes' were when she was growing up.
Janine had so much fun thinking back to her childhood and documenting some of the major differences between her childhood and that of her own children. She chose to use the Echo Park Life is Good collection for this layout as the patterns and colours of the papers were perfect for the subject matter and by creating the LO to have two sides it adds to the contrast between her childhood and theirs.
Suz chose to focus her comparison on a single activity – the Monopoly board game. She has memories of spending whole afternoons being bankrupted time after time by her older brother when she was young, but alas, concentration spans seem to have shrunk as the whole spectrum of childhood entertainments has grown, and though her kids have often started a game, they’ve almost never actually finished one.
Suz has used the gorgeous new Crate Paper ‘Neighbourhood’ range with its gelato hues and fabulous chipboard echoing the nostalgic feel she wanted to give this page.
