I find using sketches are a great way to kick-start a scrapbook page and get the creative juices flowing, and enetering competitions on blogs and websites are fun. Anyway, this month the Sarah's Cards Ltd blog have a competition to create a scrapbook page layout based on a sketch so I had a go, and here is my entry. The papers are all from the Echo Park Splash collection.
There is a story behind this layout. Five years ago today our son Kieran (then aged 15 months) was discharged from hospital having survived pneuomoccal meningitis (you can read his story here). So this year to celebrate I have set myself a challenge to raise money for Meningitis Research Foundation – swimming the distance of the London Marathon (26 miles 385yards or 42.195 kilometres) in my local swimming pool in the 16 weeks between Kieran’s sixth birthday (25th May) and the anniversary of his admission to hospital (13th September). (OK, so we got the dates a bit mixed up, 13th September isn't the anniversary of his admission to hospital, but the discharge! Admission date was 8th September ... but I must double check with the medical records next time we're seeing the doctors!). The idea for this challenge came about from having swum a similar challenge (channel distance over 12 weeks) at the time I found I was pregnant with Kieran. And a challenge it has been, fitting swimming round our busy family life and the busy pool timetable! But I’ve done it (the "photo" on this layout is actually my spreadsheet showing my progress through the challenge), and it gives us two reasons to celebrate this September! My Just Giving page is still open for donations :)
