I read this journaling and cried. The poignant story is very relateable, when do we realize that are parents felt too. Amazing journalng. The lo with the striking color differences pulls you in then the journaling keeps you there!!! Awesome
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This is awesome! Very heartfelt, touching journaling and the layout is fantastic...the colors, the flower, the sewing and the use of the rub-ons. Good luck!
Nice job Shawn! Your journaling really made me think about how I view my own parents and I actually have a greater respect for them after reading this! I guess I have always assumed raising a family came so easy for them because they did it so well, but they too had struggles, and obstacles to overcome. Thanks for the inspiration! :)
What a wonderful LO. We all should take a moment to think of our moms that way. I love you style. The embellishments are perfect as is the photo. Great job.
This is truly an extraordinary page. The journaling is so moving, the photo is lovely, and the colors & design are incredible!! Best of luck to you!!
This layout is a beautiful work of art! Your mom is so lucky to have you as a daughter. Your journaling is so touching and beautiful. I can see you inherited your mom's "artsy" talent! Very beautiful. I can't wait to see more of your work.
Wow!!! I love this LO, Shawn. Everything about it is terrific. Your journaling is great and you should share it with your mom. Good luck in the contest!!
Wow Shawn!!! As Trace Adkins would sing - that is one hot momma!!!! I love this layout so much - the colour is so vibrant and the use of the rubons is really cool and I love how you used it on the title!
WOW! This is gorgeous! I love the deep, rich colors and all the flowers and accents. Really clever use of the rub-ons --I like how they are peeking out behind other accents. Awesome journaling. Fantastic and right into my faves!
This is just awesome! What a gorgeous LO! Love the pic of your mom and fabulous journaling. Love the rubons, cute flowers, the beadwork on the flowers, the colors and flowers are awesome! Into my favs! Definitely Top 20!! Good job!
This is very striking--and what a wonderful tribute to your Mother==I bet she will cry when she sees it! (Always a sign of a good scrapbook page! LOL!)
Great job--good luck!
The journalling for this LO is somewhat hard for me to share b/c is probably the most personal one I have ever put into a public forum! But I really enjoyed writing it and wish I could have touched on even more subjects! but was getting rather long winded :)
Journaling (on hidden tag where title is… shown in next picture):
I've always loved this picture, but my mother has always been "older" in it. I never really thought about where she was in her life or what she was like... until the other day. As I was looking at this picture for the hundredth time, admiring my pretty mom lounging against the rain-drenched car window looking so cool and sophisticated, it suddenly struck me that she is EXACTLY MY AGE in this picture!! This realization floored me! Suddenly my mom became a person to me, with thoughts, feelings, hopes and aspirations of her own- apart from me.
This picture was taken sometime in 1987, during a road trip to New Orleans. Now that trip seems like a metaphor for her life. She had just left a miserable marriage that had the singular comfort of being familiar, to venture into the unknown world of dating, working and living on her own. She'd just begun a new relationship with Peter, a man who now, 20 years later, is her husband and father to her 2 youngest children, but at that time was simply a younger man just met, a friend to her little brother. He expressed an interest in dating her and, luckily, despite having some reservations, she agreed to a date.
This trip was taken just a few months into their relationship; and now I realize she was probably just like one of my friends! Full of hopes & dreams, probably nervous and excited by her first road trip with a new boyfriend. Wondering if he was "the one"; wondering if he could ever love her. Wanting to have fun and live it up a little without her kids. And then it suddenly occurred to me that my mom was a Hottie! I've always considered my mom pretty in a very classy way. But that was her through my "mommy-vision"; I'd never bothered to step back and look at her as a person.
A thirty-one year old divorced mother of five... what would make a younger, well-educated, handsome man become so enthralled with a woman with so much baggage?!? Who is this woman that I always thought I knew, but in truth have only known one facet of?? Would we have been friends- my mom's 31 year old self and I? Would we have found things in common? She had two daughters; aged 13 & 8, and three sons; aged 7, 5, and 3... would our motherhood have been a bond we shared? Or would the unhappiness of the prior 10 years weigh on her, squashing her ability to form easy-going friendships? My mom was a very unhappy person during her marriage, and she had a hard time forming new friendships. Would I have been able to see past her battle scars to the wonderful, caring woman beneath?? At least one person did.
Now when looking at this picture, I can't help but be aware that the look she has on her face, which I'd always found thoughtful, is actually quite sultry and is aimed squarely at the man taking this picture, a man that saved her and loves her as she deserves- despite the 5 snotty, rude kids in tow! I am so thankful Peter took this picture. It gives me a brief moment of insight into what my mom's life was like when she was my age. This photo is the beginning of a journey for my mother~ the journey that allowed her to find true love and happiness at the end.
And all I can think now is that my mom must have been extraordinary at 31! Journalled 3/21/06
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Fonts: Journaling: Tom’s New Roman (scrapbook answers cd) Hip: sf-happiness (scrapbook answers cd) Ultra-cool: Prissy Frat Boy (scrapbook answers cd) Sexxy: Diesel (misprintedtype.com) Artsy: Guilty (misprintedtype.com)
I had a lot of fun making my own designs with the Heidi Swapp rubons by cutting down her larger photo corners into 2 usable pieces. I then chose to put the swirls all over to help symbolize both the movement of the car and the rain on the window, as well as the change and movement going on in my mother’s life at that moment :) Thanks so much for looking!
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