Tuesday, March 18, 2008

The Watch...

The was a layout that I created over the weekend from one of the cybercrop challenges. It was a recipe challenge which meant that it had to follow very specific guidelines: one piece of polka dot paper, one piece of striped paper, one sheet of cardstock, one rub-on, one title using stickers or chipboard, one ribbon or rickrack, three buttons, and one optional other (which for my layout, was th journaling block.)

Well, this turned out to be a rather plain layout, but it tells an important story.
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The journaling says,
"February, 2008
One of Katherine's favorite toys has always been Ben's watch. She will spend hours chewing on it happily. As he prepared to leave for Iraq for 4 months, we talked about how much she was going to miss his watch. Well I should have known that Daddy was going to take care of his little girl. When it came time to pack, he bought a new watch so he could leave the other one for her. A quiet link to her daddy."
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The two photos...the one on the left is her with him with the old watch and then the one on the right is her trying to take off his new watch the day that he left for Iraq.
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My added embellishment was the journaling block from Creative Imaginations. Papers are SEI, Bazzill cardstock, Making Memories buttons, trim from Hancock fabrics, rub-ons (the row of watches) from 7gypsies, alpha stickers are Scenic Route.
smiles,
Christi

5 comments:

Shalini said...

Oh! My God, the journaling brought tears to my eyes...its a beautiful layout.
"Precious"

Alison Gibbs said...

Great layout - even with the restrictions of what you used.
Fabulous story of the watch
Alison

Lisa said...

Awesome layout and story.

Denise said...

Love your layout and your journaling is so precious!!

Rita said...

It is so great that you got these photos and recorded this story. What a good Daddy! That just puts a big ol' lump in my throat.

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