This is amazing. I hope you dno't mind if I scraplift a little - I have a precious letter written to me by my dad just 6 month before he passed away. This would be a wonderful way to preserve it. Thank you for the idea and for sharing this tender moment with us.
Wow....beautiful journaling. I lost my dad right out of college. I have yet to scrap a layout of him because I just haven't been able to bring myself to do it. There's a challenge that I recently joined to force myself to do it. I feel your pain but also relish in the the memories...peace be with you!
OMG I am bawling! This hit home so much. My dad has been dead 5 and 1/2 years. I was such a daddy's girl and his lil tomboy. I didnt get to say goodbye. I lived many states away and was with my lil girls dad. Me and my family had had a fallening out because no one liked him especialy my dad and well I was yound and dumb and thought I had forever. I didn't find out he had passed away till 3 months later when I was prego with my second child. This has killed me and still is very hard for me 5 years later. My family only has a couple pics of him for he wasn't one for having his pic taking and I had lost all my photos in a wreck I had moving here. Recently my mom sent me her only pic of him to make copies of and send her back the hers. I really want to scrap this pic but it had to be something special I done with it since it was the only pic I have or probable will ever get of him. Your lo inspired me with the part of writting a letter since I never got to tell him goodbye. Even though I have bawled through this and had to wipe tears off the keyboard many times I thank you for giving me this idea(that's if u dont mind me kind of lifting the idea of the letter)
Very good lo. I love the altered pic and the paper tearing. TFS
This is awesome-Love the photoshop effect, so perfect for this layout. The journaling is touching - it gave me goosebumps reading it. Very clever using the letter instead of directly journaling on the page! Favs!
OMGosh your letter has me sitting here crying. So very touching! I lost my mom to cancer almost 3 years ago. I have written letters to her too. It helps.
I think this is a wonderful tribute to her. I believe to write her the letter helps folks really send the message as if by doing this angels deliver it.
Great jounaling! I lost my mother 15 years ago when I was 23 and everything you said in the letter is exactly what I would want to say to mine now too. She would be very proud of you!
This is beautiful got me crying as I lost my mom just 2 years ago. btu I had her for many many wonderful years. I could not imagine what you went through btu this letter to her is fantastic. thanks for sharing this all with us.
Great, great tribute! I can totally relate. I just did a letter for my mom page over the weekend which I will upload tomorrow hopefully. I sounds quite similar to yours. Take a look if you get a chance. Great work and Im sorry for your loss.
this is so beautiful and so heartfelt...your mother would be so proud of you and the mom you have become! neat way to change the picture in ps. I dont' know how to do any of that, great job!
wow!!!! beautiful indeed! The letter was fabulous and the layout is a nice compliment to both your mother and your love for her. A sad moment indeed and an awesome job on the challenge. ~~~~HUGS~~~~ speak of my kindness and i'll deny it LOL GREAT JOB my friend ~TWIZZ~
Hello, I love your page! I lost my husband 3 months ago and my dad 8 years ago, I love your words and heartfelt letter. Is the picture metal embossed? So nice.
I love your LO and your letter. It touched my heart. As a mother I wonder sometimes if my daughters will remember me when I die and your letter expresses so well how it feels when you miss your mom. Be bless today and always!
THE LO IS WONDERFUL AND THANK YOU FOR SHARING YOUR STORY, I ALSO WAS 19 WHEN MY MOM DIED OF CANCER , I WILL BE 56 THIS YEAR AND STILL MISS MY MOM DEARLY
What a dear way of sharing your feelings for your mom. Thank you for sharing it with all of us. I got tears in my eyes as some of the same feelings you have, I have as well for my mom.
WOW! Wonderful job on this layout. ((hugs)) I just want to hug you and cry! I am so sorry for your loss. I hope writing that letter was good for you. It inspires me to a layout about this for my dad. Such a great idea. Take care honey.
This is for the March journaling challenge, had to be something (sad) related. And losing my mother when I was only 19 was a very hard thing for me.. I altered a pic o her with photoshop and tucked a letter that I wrote for her inside the bottom left square block.
letter/journaling reads:
Dear Mom,
I miss you more than you know. Holidays are especially difficult. It's been 9 years since cancer took you away from me-yet it still feels like it was just yesterday. I'm glad you got to see my sweet Dylan at least once before you passed away. He was only a few weeks old that time you saw him. I saw the weakness in you eyes. I knew you didn't feel well, but you managed to light up when he was in your arms.. I saw the tears streaming down your face when we left to head back home - because I think you knew that would be the last time you would hold your only daughter's first born son.I didn't want you to see me tear up too, so I waited to let it out til' we got in the car. Dylan will be 9 years old next month- and since you passed, I have added a new addition to our family, Tyler. He will be 7 in July. I hope to add a little girl to the family someday. Dylan is extremely smart, you would be so proud of him!! And he is small for his age, takes that after his mommy :) . Tyler is just a little sweetheart in every way and he has already outgrown his big brother. They ask about you often- "where you are", "why you died"? They are just too young to understand right now, and it's kind of hard to explain when I don't really understand it myself.. but I try. Daddy still doesn't come around- so now my boys are having to grow up not knowing either one of my parents, and that breaks my heart. But they have Michael's parents to be there for them and they are wonderful. They spoil them rotten, just as I know you would!! My wedding day was difficult without having you there. I wish you could've seen how beautiful everything was. Daddy was there to "give me away" . Little did I know it would be for good. Michael is a wonderful husband and father.. We have had our ups and downs, but he is always there for me. He is my rock!! Without him and our boys, I don't know where I would be. I love you Mama, I miss you dearly and I would give anything to have you here. I miss calling you for motherly advice, I miss laughing with you & I miss our phone calls. There are so many times when a daughter just needs her mother- and I don't have that. But writing you this letter helps ease some of the pain.
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