Hello Friends!

Do you ever have a digital scrapbooking layout that doesn’t have much journaling because the story – is actually the writing of the story? Our creative team has so they made a couple of layouts to share with you. Jenny used the letter “K” for a layout about her son’s kindergarten school year.

Jenny used Teacher’s Pet & Flashcard Alpha.

Kayla gave us all the drama and panic of a sliced of thumb and a trip to the InstaCare/Emergency Room.

Just in case she included the story.

It was a typical summer day at the Chamberlain house. Chase and Aspen had the Griffiths boys over and were playing. I was cleaning the sink and Megan was playing at the kitchen table. Out of the blue I heard a loud crash and Megan screaming. She had stood up on the chair and had tipped it over backwards. I rushed over to her and could see that she had blood gushing from her finger. I knew that she needed immediate medical attention. I hollered for the big kids to come help me. We wrapped Megan’s hand in a towel and loaded her in my van. I sent Aspen and the Griffiths boys back over to their house to let Heidi know that I was on my way to the InstaCare. Chase volunteered to go with me and put pressure on Megan’s hand. He was such a brave brother and consoled her and cared for her the whole ride.

The nurses took us right to the trauma room when we got to the InstaCare and that’s when the reality of what was happening hit me. I had brought a 9 year old Chase with me to a bloody trauma! Megan had actually cut off the tip of her left middle finger! I hadn’t realized that a small portion of her finger tip had been cut off by the back of the chair. I had thought only her finger nail had been pulled off. Rob wasn’t answering his cell phone. He had just started a new job and was up in Park City for meetings. I couldn’t get a hold of Grandma Judy, so I called Aunt Natalie to have her come get Chase. And I didn’t have the finger tip so the doctor could sew it back on. Boy was I a mess!

I quickly called Heidi and asked her to go over to my house and see if she could find the finger tip. Aspen found it and I sent Aunt Natalie to go get it and bring it back to the doctor. The doctor was able to sew it back on, but warned us that it might not take and there was no guarantee if the nail would grow back either. A small portion of it didn’t take under the nail. But enough did and the nail grew back so it’s not too noticeable. It just looks like her nail is a little flat on that finger. We call it her poor sore finger because it’s very sensitive and hurts her at times.

– August 2007

Kayla used Doctor’s Orders.

Whether you have photos or not, these 2 layouts gave us plenty of ideas of how to do a photoless layout.

Enjoy!