Stampin' Mama: A mama that stamps: Soulology Project Scrapbooking Challenge! BIG prize!

Are you ready for a very unique and personal scrapbooking challenge? I promise you that this challenge is going to have you digging deep but it's also going to be an amazing addition to your albums...and if you don't yet have a "Me Album," this page will be a great start.

This challenge also comes with a big prize and I'm looking forward to seeing all your submissions!

If you haven't yet heard, the Soulology Project Online Scrapbooking Course is coming to PaperCraft Planet starting March 30th. There is still time to register and there are still spots left. I'd love to have you join us in this course. It's an amazing way to discover the real you, as well as tap into your creative side and express yourself on your pages.

Class size is limited but I'll be giving away a FREE tuition as the prize for this challenge! That's a $75 value!

So....on to the challenge....

The challenge is to create a page focusing on "The Past vs. the Present."

Here's my page and following the page are prompts to get you started:

The Past vs. The Present

“The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it.” ~Wendell Berry

When I look back on my past, it seems so distant to me. When I think on my past, I realize that who I am today is because of my past. I can’t completely escape it because it defines who I’ve been and who I’ve become.

So many of us try to escape what is behind us. It’s a hard choice to embrace what we’ve tried to leave behind. I find this difficult for myself. To completely escape my past would be to deny a large part of myself.

“What you need to know about the past is that no matter what has happened, it has all worked together to bring you to this very moment. And this is the moment you can choose to make everything new. Right now.” ~Author Unknown

For some, embracing the past is easy because it’s an easy past to embrace. Not much has seemed to change or the changes they’ve gone through have been easy ones. For some of us, this is harder. Our past may not have been something we felt we had much control over. It can take a lot of forgiveness for some of us to embrace things that have hurt us or caused change in us that we didn’t want. For some, there are things that we want to choose not to remember.

As the quote above tells us, though, the things that have happened in our past, no matter if we look at them as good or bad, those things have made us into the person we are now. And right now is the time to make choices in our present that will affect the past, as the past is as close as yesterday.

Look back on your past. What things in the past have made you who you are today? What things have been easy to embrace? What things have been hard to embrace? If there is something you’re struggling to embrace, WHY do you find it hard to embrace? How are you different from who you were in the past? How are you the same?

Make a list of some of the things in your past that stand out to you. Are they the same as things are now or are they different?

Create a page that shows how your past differs or has stayed the same compared to who you are today. Don’t be afraid to be honest. Don’t be afraid to be candid.

When you're ready to post your page (it can be any size you like, with any products you like), post it to the Photo Gallery at PaperCraft Planet with soulchallenge as your photo tag so that I can find your page in the gallery and add it to the challenge album.

Please have your page uploaded by March 26th, 7 pm (EST). I'll do a random draw for the winner and post the winner here that night.

If you have any questions or need some guidance with the challenge, please don't hesitate to let me know.

And if you want to check out more info on the upcoming course, click here: Soulology Project Online Scrapbooking Course

And make sure to check back tomorrow for a Design Team bio of one of the amazing designers I have on this course's design team!