I LOVE this layout! I was the sweetheart of a fraternity Sigma Tau Gamma at my university and it is wonderful to see someone else who holds that honor as high as I do :-)!!
Oh, Susan, this is very different for you! and you did it beautifully! what a fabulous layout! and photo, and memories!!!! TFS! I thoroughly enjoyed reading your description and journaling!!!
sounds like a great time...fab LO...so many eye-catching gems to marvel at.Thanks for the "how-to"...I've been out for sooo long I need this inpiration! :)
Oh Susan this is just fabulous!!! You are so pretty and love your dress and beautiful flowers! What a wonderful memory -- it must have been such a time! I just think the flowers you made are gorgeous!
Did you do the stamping on this one too? Great look! Love the stitching for the roses and the pretty flowers - great photo - love Allen's shirt and the sunglasses! Sooooo Allen!!!! Great page!
WOW!!!!!!! What a unique and beautiful page Susan!! I'm loving the stitch work and the blooms are lovely!!....and what a cute photo of you!!....another fav....gorgeous work my friend!
Holy beauty queen!! Look at you!! And that stitching is amazing. I can't stitch a straight line. Well, not without breaking my sewing machine anyway. Did it again this week. I have 2 of them and seems I've broken them both. Off to the shop again. I love the stamping behind the photo. What a great look!! I've bought stamps like that for that purpose and never used them. You've inspired me!!!!
What a lovely photo of you. What nice memories. I love all the original things you did with this LO. I love the machine stitching and the flowers. I like the background stamping. I like everything; lol.
Great job on the stitching, it looks fantastic! Love the roses and bling dots. Adding the pearls to the centers and on the title lettering was an excellent touch. Such a lovely photo and very sweet journaling.
Wow, this is super inventive. I so love the machine stitched stems. I would never even thought to attempt that! The story about the black orchid made me smile. Great journaling. Congrats on being named Rose Queen. You look so stately and glam and like you should step far away from the guy in the bright gold shirt, not marry him!! I really love this type of layout that tells a story. Wonderful work.
Thats such a fun story, and great tale for the children and the grandchildren! You look so glamorous. I love the stamping on the background, and the stitching is amazing - you undersell yourself lady! Fabulous page.
A picture of me in 1970 when I was voted as the fraternity sweetheart at Pi Kappa Phi fraternity at Georgia Tech. My children's father was a brother at this fraternity, as well as my brother, Mike, and my (now) brother-in-law, Tom. I have some great memories of the years my husband was a student at Georgia Tech. Lots of parties, lots of fun...and lots of growing up! LOL! I decided to try something different for this layout. The stems and leaves were stitched on with my sewing machine. They're not perfect, but it's a LOT more difficult to sew designs on paper than I realized. For the red blooms, I glued and stacked three flowers of the same size, added a pearl in the center and touched the petals with stickles. The word "rose" was cut with the Silhouette, "the" and "of" are rubon letters, and the Pi Kappa Phi was drawn in PSE and cut out. The tiny flower buds are Prima. I stamped behind the photo with a word/phrase stamp. I added some pearls to the title word "Rose". I also added some bling dots randomly around the blooms. Journaling is tucked behind the photo (with the pretty scalloped edge courtesy of a new MS edge punch), and reads:
The Pi Kappa Phi fraternity at Georgia Tech held their annual Rose Ball in the spring each year. In 1970, the fraternity guys elected me as their Rose Queen. Your Daddy and I (we were 19 years old) were dating at the time. The dress I am wearing was actually the dress I would be wearing in a wedding a few months after the Ball. When Allen arrived to pick me up, he handed me a black orchid. Black orchids were what all the girls wanted…and I got one. As you can see, Allen was decked out in a tux with a bright gold shirt. That man LOVED to wear bright colors! The older lady in the photo is “Mom” Sessions, the fraternity house mother. She was a real sweetheart. She loved all the guys, and she tried really hard to keep them in line. The fraternity had a song that they sang to the newly elected Rose Queen each year. After it was announced that I was the Rose Queen, I realized that my brother, Mike (a fraternity brother of your daddy and Tom Goetter), would be singing to me. He stepped up to the microphone …but before he began to sing, he told everyone, “I can't BELIEVE I'm having to sing to my SISTER!” I think he wanted to say YUCK…but thankfully he restrained himself!
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