Journaling that matters

In some of the stories people posted on the Ella giveaway post, I noticed some people with some painful memories to share. This memory isn't painful, but since my MIL died this year, the wound is fresh, so scrapping her always includes a little melancholy, even when the memory is happy.

Inspired by a section in the new Ella book Journaling That Matters, I decided to scrap a conversation my MIL had with her husband and daughter shortly before she died. The conversations epitomized her personality, which is what made her words so memorable. Here's the layout I made with her words:


I used last week's color combination from The Color Room, and the base is from some paper I got from Creative Imaginations from a layout I had published in Scrapbook Trends.