Hi there! It’s Sinead with today’s challenge. Sorry that it’s coming so late in the day; I’ve had a very sick little baby and my head is all mixed up. (That’s my excuse, at least.)

Since we’re focusing on A Fresh Start this month, I thought that today would be a good day to challenge you to do some journaling about one of the changes you’d like to make in your life this year. I don’t like to call them resolutions because I’ve got a bad history of not following through on those. I’m just going to focus on making my changes one Monday at a time. That’s do-able, right?

Here’s my layout:

Credits: paper from Kelley Mickus’ Studio 365 Color Me Happy Patterned Paper Vol 1;
border from Doodled Week # Borders from Michelle Batton;
“December stamp” from Project 365 Grab Bag collab from simply.scraps designs;
journaling spot from Grungy Spots from Gypsy Couture;
font is SF Katie.

My aim this year is to take a picture each Monday night and do a layout with it. I’m starting a blog to track my progress as I work on this weight journey that I’m taking because I figure that putting it out there will give me some accountability. So far so good…I’ve posted my beginning layout and I’ve got today’s picture ready to scrap. Here’s to the other 52 Mondays this year!

How about you? What will you work on each Monday? Your challenge today is to scrap (and most importantly today, journal) about a change that you plan to make this year. You can use the 53 Mondays idea if you’d like, but don’t feel tied to it. This can be a positive change (I will start…) or a negative one (I will stop…), but I’d like to see you include some sort of an action plan for how you will work to accomplish this change.

Here are the rules:

• Do a layout that features journaling about one change that you will make this year. You can use the 53 Mondays idea or not; it’s up to you. I just want to see some journaling on your page about the change that you make and maybe some of the steps that you will take to help you achieve that change. 
• You can use any designs you like—you don’t have to use something from the Digichick to qualify. We want you to scrap with us! And we want you to be making layouts that make you happy more than anything else. So, if you have something from another shop that you’d like to use, feel free!
• When you’ve finished your layout, stop back by the blog here and leave a comment with a link to your layout. (Feel free to use our open gallery here at the Digichick if you need a place to upload your layout.)
• The deadline for the challenge is Monday, January 11th at 11:59 EST. To qualify for the grand prize, be sure to come and post your links before then!

Each challenge here on the blog will be sponsored by a different Digichick Designer. Today’s sponsor is Pamela Donnis:

Pamela is one of our uber-talented designers. One of her specialties is digi felt, and she has a wide variety of felty goodness in her store that is just begging to be used on your layouts. She’s also a coupon maven, so be sure to check out her blog to read about her shopping trips and be inspired to try some coupon-ing yourself!

Everyone who joins us for this challenge will receive a 30% off coupon code to Pamela’s shop (which will be e-mailed to you after the due date above). And one lucky winner will be randomly selected to also receive a $5.00 gift certificate from Pamela! Isn’t that terrific?

I can’t wait to see what you put together! Now go get busy journaling!

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