My heart feels heavy for you - I can't imagine what you must have gone thru. This is such a beautiful tribute to your son, the journaling is incredibly beautiful and touching. Thanks for sharing those memories with us. Congratulations on winning first place on the OUAS challenge.
Big congrats on winning first place, but no surprise to me, Jennifer! Your journaling brought tears to my eyes. My heart goes out to you, my sweet friend.
Like Maggi I learn something new about you all the time. Amazing tribute, gorgeous layout. I love the way you used the dress pattern. I am so sorry for your loss
A most poignant and impressive page of heartfelt emotion. I love the significance of the tissue paper and the questions that no-one can answer for you. My heartfelt sorrow for your loss.
Oh my goodness Jen, this is so moving, I learn somethng new about you everyday it seems. What an incredible way of putting your loss on paper, giving it definition, this is such a powerful and beautiful statement from you.
This is one awesome page Jen!! love everything on this page, especially the journaling. It brought tears to me eyes reading about your loss, even though it has been 16 years. To you I know it seems as only yesterday!! Sooo Sorry!!
This is an incredibly powerful LO!! What you feel for your son can be felt in every tear you made, and putting it back together again even if pieces are missing. Wow!! Heartfelt and beautiful. So sorry for your loss!!
Certainly you have made a great job in this LO. But the best part of it it's how you handle your grief to show others an oppenin window of your hearth. Sorry for the lost.
This is beautiful ...your page.. your tribute to your son..it's true we never stop missing the ones we lost..especially a child. I can tell you are a brave woman and I am sure your son is looking down and is so proud of you......
What a stunning, heartfelt layout! So very beauitful. I am SOO sorry for your loss-what a strong woman you are! I am glad that you are able to reflect and remeber him in this way!
so sorry, Jennifer; I can't imagine a greater heartbreak. What a beautiful tribute page, and your journalling is so precious and touching. I love the use of the pattern tissue and your distressing and texture is wonderful. Hugs!
I am so sorry for your loss. I cannot imagine how hard it must be. The layout is beautiful, bittersweet. I love the photo, the design, the layers. I thought of you last night while i was looking for some pattern paper i thought i had. I threw it out thinking ide never use it. I do have some more in another closet, but while i was looking i was thinking how wonderful yours looks in this layout, and the symbolism involved. I think ive seen you use this in the past? I love all the cutting too. Prayers of comfort and peace to you .
Wow!!!!!! This Brings tears in my eyes i Will pray for you this make me Sad and joyfull at the same time this LO is soooo incredible beautiful !!!! It gives me mixed feelings!!!!!There is nothing more terrible then you have been true!!!!! I wish you all THE rest of Mind and soul!!!!!
Created using the versatile and gorgeous March Scraps of Darkness Kit called Needful Things. Please consider joining us and experiencing the whimsy, versatility and beauty of this kit.
I did a ton of cutting - almost hated cutting up the papers butI got over that real quick.
This was created using the March 15th challenge sketch from Once Upon A Sketch. This is my first time playing along and I had a wonderful time with this sketch, created by a the talented, beautiful Nadia Cannizzo.
The journaling part of this is about missing someone, something, some place. My journaling is for my middle child I lost many years ago.
I've missed you for 16 years now. I wonder what type of young man you would have been? What plans you would have made. What talents you would have been granted. I miss the joy you would have brought to our family. You still bring me joy knowing that you are watching and guarding from a heavenly place and smiling now as we remember you.
I used some seamstress pattern tissue for my background. I stamped it, ripped it, then used modpodge for the layers. We all have wonderful perfect plans for our lives - much like a dress maker or seamstress has when she /he starts with a pattern. Sometimes, often, our plans are altered and life takes a different turn. That's why I ripped the tissue paper and pieced it together again.
The photo is one I took a few years back.
I used Dusty Attic Decorative Frame #1 DA0207 for this piece. I simply painted it with Adirondack paint Sandal and inked with Tim Holtz distress ink in Sage. I did not do much to this piece in terms of treatments because I wanted it to be present but subtle. Just to accent my photo like a floral wreath one would lay at the foot of a grave.
An update: This layout won the OUAS challenge. I am deeply honored. When I found out I won, I cried. Actually, I am tearful even now just writing again. Did I really win????? I still feel the loss. Is a win supposed to be painful? This just reminds me of a riddle.....When is a win really a loss?
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