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Hop on in to the Everyday Storyteller Blog Hop!
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Happy May 1st everyone and welcome to my stop on the Everyday Storyteller Blog Hop!Β If this is your first time stopping by my digi slice of the web, let me take a moment to say hello & welcome!
I’m Lynnette aka Nettio of Nettio Designs and I’m a child-free, tech-lovin’ digital scrapbooker/designer who has a passion for bold colors & patterns, clean designs and modern storytelling. Here at Nettio Designs I write about my adventures (and misadventures) in design and share tips, tricks and digital scrapbooking templates designed to inspire you to embrace your scrapbooking awesomeness. So glad to have you here!
If you’re one of my regular readers who hasn’t heard about Everyday Storyteller yet,Β Everyday Storyteller is a digital idea book releasing this Friday, May 4th. The book, the brainchild of the talented Jennifer Wilson of Simple Scrapper.com, features 33 practical ideas from real world scrapbookers and includes all kinds of tips from photography to storytelling and everything in-between.
In preparation for the big launch this weekend, all of the contributors of the book are participating today, May 1st in a blog hop where they’ll be sharing a tip or trick that ties into their contribution from the book. It’s like a mini sneak peek!
My stop on the Everyday Storyteller blog hop is a bit different from everyone else as unlike most of the participants, I am not actually a contributor to the book. Instead I’m the graphic designer mastermind who’s been working furiously behind the scenes to make sure all the awesome tips & tricks from our contributors are dressed up in their Sunday best and looking as awesome as possible.
Which lucky for you also means I’ve had a front row seat to all the action as the book has come together, so I thought rather than sharing an everyday storytelling-related tip or trick, I’d offer you a little sneak peek into the design of the book.
Think you can handle it? Because this peek just might blow your mind with it’s clean design goodness.Β
Ready?
Ok, here ya go…
Β I know, I can hear the oohs and awes already.
Ok, to be fair, it’s not much of a peek. But I can’t have the boss lady getting mad at me for giving away the surprise!
But what I can tell you is this book is seriously AMAZING. Jennifer and the team have outdone themselves and this is definitely NOT something you’re going to want to miss out on.
So if you haven’t signed up yet, make sure you hop on over to the Everyday Storyteller website and get yourself signed up for the V.I.P. list ASAP. The big launch party reveal is happening Friday night and from what I hear, there’s going to be prizes involved!
***GIVEAWAY NOW CLOSED***
Speaking of prizes, as part of my stop on the blog hop, I’m giving away 1 copy of Everyday Storyteller to one lucky Nettio Designs reader. So if you want a chance to win, just leave a comment in the comments section of this blog post answering this question:
What do you want to be AWESOME at when it comes to telling your everyday stories?
You have until 6am CST onΒ Wednesday May 2nd to enter so don’t delay!
Now I’m going to send you off to the next stop on the blog hop, the lovely Elle Price of Elle’s Studio! You can also check out all the stops on the blog hop using the list below.
Happy hopping and of course, be sure to check out the Everyday Storyteller launch party, Friday May 4th at 8:30pm CST!
- Cheryl Ashcraft
- Anna Aspnes
- Katie Clemons
- Elise Blaha
- Paula Gilarde
- Sara Gleason
- Michelle Hernandez
- Debbie Hodge
- Katrina Kennedy
- Amy Kingsford
- Cindy Liebel
- Crystal Livesay
- Robyn Meierotto
- CD Muckosky
- Nancy Nally
- Christine Newman
- Ashli Oliver
- Amanda Padgett
- Renee Pearson
- Lynnette Penacho<< YOU ARE HERE
- Elle Price
- Heather Prins
- Traci Reed
- Lauren Reid
- Amber Ries
- Kristin Rutten
- Betsy Sammarco
- Jenn Smith-Sloane
- Jessica Sprague
- Melissa Stinson
- Amy Tan
- Tiffany Tillman
- Jennifer Wilson
I want to be awesome at being authentic, that when my children or family read my words, they hear my voice and the way I speak, telling the stories and remaking history – as the historian that’s my right. It should be like I am there sharing the facts, the snippets that need to be shared.
What do I want to be awesome at? Everything! I want to take better pictures to help illustrate my everyday life. I want to do a better job at designing layouts to be visually appealing and not overwhelming the photos. And finally and perhaps the most important- journaling! I want to be able to tell my story long after I’m gone- and have stories for my children to remember, continue and pass on. π
I want to be awesome at…………..journaling. Journaling has always been very difficult for me. I try very hard to work at it, but I am never satisfied with what I write.
I want to be AWESOME at conveying stories on my layouts the way I would actually tell them if I was talking! I want to make beautiful pages that tell a story even if they only have a few words on them.
I don’t know that my goal has ever been to be Awesome…I just want to be moving in the right direction. In most aspects of my life I want to get to be a little better each day. Perhaps in the end it will equal awesome…for now it is just directionally correct!
What do I want to be awesome at? I would love to be awesome at telling my everyday stories in English. My journaling is always in Dutch!! And wrinting is English is not a problem at all, but when it comes to journaling, ohh boy hihi π
Thank for a chance Lynnette!!
I want to be awesome at everything, of course, but most important to me, even more than the memory or story, I want my girls to be able to see the love that I have for them through these layouts – I hope someday when they’re older, they’ll be able to see the los I make and see all the love I have for them, through the stories and photographs and memories I’m preserving for them π
AWESOME? For my family, my work and especially for myself in everything I do and say. While being realistic, I do things right and that I have around me are happy, that’s enough. I feel awesome with just a smile and a thank you to complete a job.
I struggle with putting my thoughts into written words. The process always turns out to be so wordy and I lose focus on the main idea. I would love to be able to journal with ease. Simple but the point is made.
I just hope to be awesome at conveying the memory. To have my children and loved ones read and see the layout and KNOW how I felt at the time of the memory as well as how the subject felt. I want the viewer to see what I see. KWIM? TY for the chance!
I want to be awesome at capturing all kinds of different details about daily life. Not just the happy/exciting/celebratory moments, but also the routine, the less-than-pleasant, and the small stuff.
I want to be awesome at eloquence and expressiveness.
What do you want to be AWESOME at when it comes to telling your everyday stories?
making sure I get the story down, even if it is just a few lines of journaling. sometimes I get so busy I don’t have time to record the little stuff that is important.
I want to be awesome at getting more of my stories down as soon as they happen, so that I always have a repository of them to scrap! A lot of my pages now are like journal entries, and I love that I can design pages with my thoughts and emotions. Being timely in my memory-keeping (either online or by paper) will go a long way in making me a better scrapbooker and storyteller π
I just want to be awesome at documenting it all. Honestly, whether it’s in blog form, Project 365 or whatever – I just want us all to look at the books when we’re old and remember it all.
Passion….I want to relay my passion for my family, for the events I scrap and the impact those lasting memories can have through the generations that will look at my pages and feel the love and passion that I put into recording moments in our families history. After all you can only go forward when you know where you have come from.
I want to be AWESOME at creating realistic and genuine titles that tie everything together on my pages. Thanks for the chance!
thanks for the chance ! can’t wait to see your gorgeous collab book !
I want to be AWESOME at conveying the emotion of the moment … sweet, happy, sad, funny, proud, etc. Thanks for the chance to win.
I want to be awesome at the telling of the stories of my family, and even myself. I want them to be able to say “hey … do you remember when…” and actually have the story as a reference that can be passed along. I have family from all over and photos from the 1800s and early 1900s that belonged to my great-great grandmother but no idea who everyone is; I want to help my family connect the dots. π
I want to be awesome at photography! I feel like it’s my weakest part of my pages.
You are such a tease!! π
I want my stories to be heart felt, showing the real feelings behind the moments, not just the hard facts.
I want to be AWESOME at getting started on my scrapping! For me, the challenge is just getting started. Once I start, I feel confident about my scrapping, but sometimes it takes some motivation to get going!
What I want to be awesome at. HMMM Hard question but I think it would be to get all these ideas out of my head and actually document & scrapbooking & not getting discouraged mid way. Thanks for the chance.
I want to be awesome at continuing to collect & record our family’s history–which is more challenging now that the children have their own families. Grandchildren make it even more fun to do a scrapbook page!
I want to be awesome at so many things.most of all I want to pass down my stories to the next generation when i am gone.i just celebrated my 35 th wedding anniversary and have many stories to tell.i do not have any grand children yet but would love to start journaling and put my stories with pictures of my life here for the last 40 years and some stories of India when I was a little girl.
I would like to be better at getting my older stories and adventures written down once and for all!
I want to be awesome at capturing a story with my photos (as opposed to telling a story about my photos)
i want to be able to have a story ready to tell when i am at my computer digital scrapbooking. it seems like my brain goes blank when it is time to actually scrap and record our stories.
My AWESOME goal is that I actually tell the story of the photos! I am absolutely terrible about journaling! Thanks for the change to win the new book! Super excited!!!
I want ot be awesome at capturing the little details.
I want to be awesome at capturing these moments in my children’s lives so they can glimpse just a small portion of how much we love them.
I want to be awesome at taking the photos. I would say that’s one of my weaker points! Thanks for the chance!
I want to be awesome at capturing the stories soon enough after they happen so I can remember the details.
Unless you have a magic spell that will help me remember the details (and sometimes the stories themselves π ) I’d love help adding richness to the story so it’s not just a retelling of a. b. c. this is what happened.
Sounds like fun.
Hi Jan! Just a little note in case you missed it – in order to be eligible to win, you have to answer the question in the big blue letters above in your comment. Wouldn’t want you to miss out on a chance to win!
I want to be awesome at having a page recreate a particular moment rather than focusing on generalizations.
I want to be awesome at documenting more of the everyday stuff as it happens, so I don’t forget the small details.
I need help with journaling. Thanks for the chance
I want to be awesome at leaving a legacy of family history and memories for my children and grandchildren.
I’d like to be awesome at tying my pages all together. At the moment they seem quite disjointed so bringing all the elements together is a skill I’d like to improve!
I want to be awesome at telling my stories.
I just want to be “beawesome!” and keep trying.
I’d like to be awesome at actually making layouts rather than just accumulating stash. I’d also like to be awesome at remembering more stories and details from my kids’ childhoods, and even my own childhood, when scrapping old photos. Thanks for the chance! π
I want to be awesome at going beyond getting the obvious details on a page & getting authentic in my journaling. Thanks for the chance to win!
This was a cute posting! Thanks so much for all your hard work. Looks like a great book!
I want to be awesome at getting things DONE…stop trying to capture everything, stop trying to make it “perfect”, just get the important things documented and photographed now instead of waiting for the stars to align. π
I want to be awesome at taking pictures!
I want to be AWESOME at journalling the story. I would like for the people reading my stories to hear me telling them.
Can’t wait to see this inspiring book! Thank you. π
Well, while I want my photos to be awesome (and they are NOT lol), I want my storytelling to really capture our lives. I want future generations to be able to read my journaling and get a feel for who we really were.
I want to be awesome at just keeping up with all the stories I want to preserve…
I want to be our family’s historian. I want future generations to look at my scrapbooks and get a glimpse into the life of a family at the turn of the 21st century. I want to not only record family memories, but include details about our everyday lives, cost of living, politics, pop culture and more!
I want to be awesome at journaling.. it’s so hard for me to get it on the page.
I want to be awesome at finding the right layout and stuff for the right story.
I really want to be awesome at catching those candid photos that mark the best of the everyday.
I want my photos to be awesome so that they can effectively convey the stories that I am telling in my journaling. I have a long way to go…
I want to be awesome at taking better photos of my 4 boys; especially candid shots. Excited about this book. Thank you for the chance to win.
I want to be an awesome photographer. Good thing I’m always working at it…and sometimes I even succeed! LOL
I want to become a better photographer so the pictures live up to my memories.
I want to be awesome at showing the everyday as well as the events of our lives…
I want to be awesome at journaling. I feel like my journaling is boring and I wish I knew how to tell the story in a more interesting way. Thanks
I want to be awesome in telling the storie just by a picture, that moment that is captured forever and tells everything I need to know. Thx for the chance!
I want to tell my stories with humor and authenticity.
I want to be awesome at just getting it done!
I want to be awesome at completing pages/albums for my family! π
I want to be better at documenting the details and retelling them in an eloquent way.
I want to be awesome at the journalling, the actual telling of the story!! Thank you for the opportunity!!
I want to be awesome at telling the best stories.
Can I have it all? The photos, journaling, and design π
I want to be awesome at telling stories eloquently and efficiently, as well as authentically and entertainingly.
DO IT! As Yoda says, “Do or do not…there is no try!” It doesn’t get done unless you do it! Once I start writing I’m good to go – but it is the start that I struggle with and I want to be AWESOME at it. The book sounds great – how can it not be with all you awesome folks? Thanks for the opportunity.
i want to be awesome in telling thee whole story in photos and words that future generations will be spell bound about the past.
I want to be awesome journaling in English, usually is hard for me explain my stories in other language, much easier for me in Spanish
I want to be awesome at making sure my love for my family comes through on every single layout I create.
I want to be awesome at being productive in telling those important stories, so the future generations can enjoy reminiscing about them. You’ve had a very important role in this e-book. Congrats on what I’m sure is a job well done by all. Thanks for the chance to win.
I want to be awesome at finding the stories to tell that show the texture of our lives.
Even though your sneak peek was more sneaky than peeky, I know this is going to be a great resource. Thanks for the chance to win π
I need to be awesome at getting a life so I have a story to be told. How real is that?
I want to awesome at making my layouts about real life.
I want to be awesome at actually getting the story down!
I want to be awesome at just getting it done! Seems like I have a million stories to tell and can’t find the time to tell them. I’m sure that’s partially because I haven’t been scrapping long so it takes me a while to do a page, but I also seem to want it perfect instead of just getting it done! I’m working on it. Thanks for the chance to win what I’m sure will be an amazing book!!
I want to be awesome about making sure my layouts relay our true family ways. Thanks for the chance!
I would love to be awesome at “capturing the story”. I
It would be seeing the smiles and joy when the family and others really see and feel the moment that I created the layout, etc. about. Thank you so much for the opportunity to win this book from all the amazing contributors!
I want to be awesome at getting layouts done faster. ha ha. Seriously, I would love to be better at mixing and matching patterned papers as well as at lettering.
I want to be awesome at being a good writer and capturing the moments essence of my family life. Thanks so much for the chance to win!
I would like to be awesome at all aspects of journaling. I want to tell my story the best way I possibly can. Thank you for the chance to win. π
I want to be awesome at evoking the memory. Even if the photo is not great or the journaling does not capture the entire story, if the intended reader can pick out their rememberance of the event and relive their memory, that would be awesome.
I want to be awesome at taking pictures, so I can have the very best to show off our memories!
Need to remember to write what the kids say.
I want to be awesome at telling the ‘little’ stories, the everyday moments!
I want to be awesome about telling the important things. I also want my faith to show through .
I want to pull my story out of a hat
I’d feel more awesome if I were better at remembering verbatim what my kids say. In the short time it takes me to find a pen I’ve often forget half of what was said. I want to write down more thoughts about what my kids are thinking, saying, and doing.
I want to be awesome at capturing individual family members personality and character.
Thanks!
I want to be awesome at capturing our family’s style in our pages and not someone else’s.
I want to be awesome at creating collections of pages instead of creating lots of single layouts. I just started working on my kids’ baby books so that is a step in the right direction:)
I want to be awesome at capturing my family’s memories and making them smile when they recall the memories.
I want to be awesome at making the time to scrap what I want to scrap rather than just thinking about it!
I just want to be awesome for my son. My scrapbooks are a way to show him he is loved and he is awesome. The things that happen in our life is awesome and worth the time to share and remember.
I want to be awesome at getting all my good intentions into something tangible that can be shared with my kids. π
Journaling. I’d love to be awesome at journaling.
I would like to be awesome at making scrapbook pages now that we find ourselves as an empty nesters. The transition is odd.
I want to be awesome at taking pictures. It’s the skill I am most deficient at right now in my memory keeping!
I want to be awesome at making people FEEL something! And hopefully making people laugh!!!
xoxo,
Candi
candi1973 (at) gmail (dot) com
I want to be awesome at sharing my story…getting my feelings across…and just enjoying the process. π
THANKS so very much! I can’t wait for this amazing & helpful resource!
I want to become awesome at journaling and getting our stories told rather than getting hung up on perfection trying to find the “perfect” paper, or embellishments or waiting for a special to use said supplies!
It really does look like an amazing book. Thanks
Opps forgot the question…. I would just love to get my story done! I have been working on it for awhile now..new inspiration would really help.
I want to be awesome at creating beautiful artistic pages that look real enough to touch.