Grow With Love Archive

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What is Grow With Love?

Grow With Love is a collaborative project between Sara Gleason (of Plant Your Story) and Crystal Livesay.  It was borne of our own wishes for our personal storytelling.  We have felt a pull to transform our own scrapping into something even more meaningful.  We had it on our hearts and minds to create a project that would encourage ourselves and others to create beautiful pages that not only reveal honest and heartfelt whisperings but that reach beyond the page to have a tangible impact on our lives as well.

And so emerged Grow With Love, a series of prompt-and-story driven projects that we hope will encourage you to step out of your comfort zone a little bit, reflect on your relationships and loves, and love a little more deeply and truly.  This is not only a scrap project. This is about changing yourself and your relationships for the better.   We hope you will feel encouraged and inspired by our own process as it has evolved and grown on our blogs (the journey so far is outlined in this archive).

And we encourage you to follow along with the Grow With Love projects any time.  They are meant to be approached as you are inspired, in whatever medium you prefer (paper, digital, journaling, blogging), and at your own pace.  You can use the templates together with the prompts, or you can use prompts and templates separately, or you can simply follow along with the posts in this archive.  The key is to let yourself be guided to dive in and challenge yourself a little bit… to Grow With Love.. in your scrapbooking and storytelling.

We’d love to see your pages and stories!  Feel free to share them with us in the blog comments or in the Plant Your Story gallery {HERE}.

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Grow With Love: Marriage Edition

Grow With Love: Marriage Edition is the first of the Grow With Love series.  We were inspired by deep reflection of our own loves and relationships to create a series of journaling prompts with accompanying template designs that we hope will inspire you to share your own stories and create beautiful pages from the heart that you will love.   But more than that, we hope, through the process of scrapping and reflecting and writing, the project will have a more tangible effect in our real lives.

This project remains dearest to our hearts, not just because it was the *first*, but also because it was so heartfelt and challenging and rewarding in our own lives.   We hope it will continue to be so for everyone who embarks on the journey of Grow With Love: Marriage edition.

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Grow With Love: Kids Edition

Grow With Love: Kids Edition is the second series of prompt-and-story driven story starters and template designs.  Inspired by our desire to grow as parents, the Kids Edition takes includes both light and fun prompts and heavier prompts that take us in to reflective ground and challenges us to let our reflections and ponderings transform into “acts” in our real lives as parents.

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Grow With Love: Holiday Edition

Grow With Love: Holiday Edition  is an abbreviated Grow With Love adventure centered around holiday-centric prompts.  Grow With Love: Holiday can be used in concert with and to enhance any other holiday project you may be pursuing!  As always we hope this holiday edition will help guide you through the season in a memory-minded way so that you can capture your stories and let them make your holiday a little something extra special this year.

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Grow With Love: Letters Edition

Grow With Love: Letters Edition is an ongoing monthly feature in the Artisan Notebook during the year 2011.  Each month features a fresh set of template designs and journaling prompts inspired by and rooted in letter writing.  Each month we hope to encourage you to put pen to paper (figuratively or literally) and pour your heart into words with inspirational prompts delving in to different “themes” each month.  The archive for GWL : Letters will be updated continually throughout the year as fresh posts/prompts are added.

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Where Can I Find the Grow With Love products and prompts?

Grow With Love products are available in my personal shoppe at Plant Your Story and also at The Lilypad.

Grow With Love: Marriage Edition

Grow With Love: Kids Edition

Grow With Love: Holiday Edition

Grow With Love: Letters Edition (as featured each month in the Artisan Notebook)

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