Why?

I don't know about you, but finding "the words to say it" on my scrapbook layouts is one of the most challenging aspects of scrapbooking for me. This year, one of my creative resolutions is to ensure that I not only create something weekly, but create something meaningfully as well. I don't want to take for granted the power of my voice on the pages that I create, and I no longer want to add journaling as an afterthought.

Thus, the Wordplay Challenges were born.

In her poem "Spelling," Margaret Atwood writes: "A word after a word after a word is power."

Each week, I will post a prompt that is designed to help me -- and anyone else who wants to play along -- embrace a bit of word power and engage in a little wordplay. In the process, we can become more mindful of the way we "compose" our selves in our scrapbooks, and we can also enjoy the process, knowing that we are making definite creative efforts toward "finding the words to say it."