Sunday, May 22, 2011

Mom at 13

I was super excited when I remembered that I had an old album of my mother's. And even more excited when I discovered that the photos were starting to come off the adhesive holding them in. After a little research, I found that dental floss would help to convince the photos to come the rest of the way out safely.

At the scrapbooking group Scrappin-n-Chattin, one of the challenges this month is to include the word Mom, Mother, etc. in the title of a page. A few of us have been struggling with working with older photos of our moms, doing them justice. When I started to think about my project for this week for Lasting Memories, I thought a photo of my mother would be perfect. The challenge is to use flowers on your layout. I also used this month's sketch at SnC for this layout. I think it was perfect for this photo.
And here is my layout...


I have a bunch more photos to take out of the album and then get them all scanned so I can share them with my sister. She will be very excited to have them.

Go check out the fabulous, flowery layouts created by the LM design team. I hope you will play along this week.

11 comments:

tiffany said...

your layout is stunning! what a beautiful picture of your mother! =)Tiffany
Breakfast at Tiffany's

Suzy said...

gorgeous layout Sue! I love the pinks and browns. I definitely see a resemblance between you and your Mom :)
Suzanne

Karen Wilson said...

oh sue, this is stunning and what a gorgeous photo. i bet your sister will love these! you should take photo's of your LO's and share those too. thanks for the dental floss tip!

Kristie W. said...

Sue, your layout is gorgeous!! What a treasure you found in the album of pictures, I'm looking forward to more layouts of your mom. You definitely did this picture justice! The flowers are beautiful and as others have said, you look like your Mom :)

Michele said...

Sue... this is a gorgeous layout! The colors you chose accent the photo of your Mom perfectly! Would love to see more of what you do with more of the old pictures.

Tara said...

Just beautiful! So nice that you have so many pictures of your mother as a young lady.
Tara

Cindy Gay said...

Oh how pretty! Lovely Mom! Lovely title alpha!

Unknown said...

Gorgeous is all I can say. I love the vintage look and those flowers are a perfect match. I wish I had some photos of my mom when she was young...so sad, but I am glad you have them and can do such beautiful layouts with them
Hugs
Brenda

Denise Pustelniak said...

Your LO is gorgeous! The vintage look is perfect.(thank-you again for helping me find the flowers)

Tracey said...

Such a Beautiful layout Sue.....what a wonderful photo to have!

beth said...

This lo is beautiful. You have done an awesome job using your mom's old photos. I love the colors you used they work so well with the photo and the flowers and butterfly are beautiful additions. Wonderful work!