Interviews in Scrapbook Layouts

Quite often in scrapbooking we are trying to create a "snapshot" in time to capture a specific moment in our lives. As a mother, I often have the "if only I can save this moment" thinking when my children do something silly, fun, or exciting. One way to capture thoughts of a child (or anyone else) is to do an "interview" that the person. It only take a couple of minutes to write down some questions that you want to ask the person. The type of questions is up to you. The question can be something serious like "Who do you admire the most?" to something silly like "What you rather be a buffalo or a horse?" The idea is to capture the person's thoughts in that particular moment in time to reflect the person's age, situation in life, mood, dreams, goals, desires, etc.

For this layout, I wanted to capture the thoughts of a 4 year old boy who is my oldest son. His mind is so interesting and his thoughts just amaze me. Kids are just so honest. The point of the interview was to capture his innocence and honesty. So I asked him some serious questions along with some silly type questions to get a good range. This interview was a great experience for the both of us because he had an awesome time answering my questions and I loved hearing his responses.

The layout that I created to go along with the interview used photos taken this year as well. I wanted the pictures to make his personality and his innocence as much as the interview. I used some flourish rub-on's on the bottom corners of the pictures to add some color detail. MME Bohemia "Just be You" and "Imagine" lines were selected as the paper as well as chipboard flower with buttons. The stripped paper going across the page which looks like ribbon is accented with the "Spirit" MM metal ribbon embellishment. The title is hand sewn on one side using Stampin Up silver cord for a nice special touch.