Pieces of Me, layout idea

                                               

 Pieces of me...the beginnings of my Book of Me!  Doing a Book of Me album (or All About Me as some people call it) is actually a lot of fun.   When I first started doing my album, I wanted to do layouts that reflected WHO I am.  I didn't want to just do layouts about my family, though they are important too!    Angie Pedersen started the Book of Me, and has also wrote the Book of Us and Growing Up Me.  She can be found at http://www.scrapyourstories.com/ if you want to locate her book, or for other challenges she might have.  Some of the challenges I will do is based on her book, others will be from some of the other challenges I have found!  
I will be giving links to other sites that have found along my journey of creating my Book of Me.  What this album taught me is that throughout the things I have been through, scrapbooking is a wonderful therapy tool!  It also taught me that I can scrapbook something "other" than my family for once, and have fun doing it. 
One of the things to look at when you are starting this type of album is how do you want it to look?  Do you want the colors to match, or does that actually matter?  For me, you will notice I didn't care that the colors actually match.  If I were to do another album, I might want it all to look the same, just to see how that would turn out versus a look of what you see is what you get type of thing! 
Normally I will give you a step by step direction of how to complete the page.  In this case I am not going to do that with this layout.  I will give you how I did things, and if you want exact directions, please feel free to email me!   
For the colors in this one, I used blues, cream, and wheat which for me turned out beautiful.  I have used these colors before in a wonderful project of my Grandparents, so for me I love these type of colors.  For the title, I used a template and then layered the individual words to create a unique look.  Though you can't see it, I used a Navy marker to create stitch marks around the individual letters.  
For the photo, I used a photo that was not as good looking to use it normally, but when I cut it into 1" squares it made the photo look much better.  I then framed the photo using the colors in the layout. 
For the bottom, I chose to use stamps that represented what I like.  Images, words and my name completed the look, all images stamped in Navy to match the rest of the layout. 
I would say this layout would be more intermediate-advanced, but someone who was just starting out could also do this type of layout just by tweaking a few things!  The key here is to do what YOU like, using items YOU want...besides, this book is All About YOU!