Still Missing You - ScrapbookDreamer.com: Scrapbook Layout Ideas, Cards, Scrapbook Rooms

In this layout I:
1. Used fall colours
2. Hidden journalling
3. Paper tearing
4. Flowers
5. Layering of pattern papers
6. Chipboard in title
7. Used a Brad in the ribbon on the hidden journalling
8. Inked around the edges of the torn paper and the outer edge of the circle.
9. Used one photo corner.

I did not scraplift the layout but I did use Tammy's layout "Lola" as my inspiration.

The products that were used in this layout are:
MME, Bo Bunny and We R Memory Keepers Pattern Paper
Techniques Tuesday Elements - circle
Cherry Art Chipboard
Thickers
Creativityinc Rhinestone Accents
Prima flowers
Uniball Signo White Pen
Ribbon - Unknown
Marth Stewart Glitter
Versa Fine Ink

My journalling was a letter that I wrote to my father.

A Letter to Dad

Why did you leave me? I was not ready to let you go. Even at 25 I still needed to hold my Daddy’s hand, to have his shoulder to cry on and to guide me in the direction I should follow. I choose to live blind when it came to that horrible disease … cancer. I was so sure you were going to beat it, even though you were in stage 4 by the time we found out. I sat at your bedside everyday. I even expected that my pregnancy would give you the strength to fight and give me the miracle I was looking for. I am not sure if you even knew how much I truly loved you. Oh sure… I told you everyday but I don’t think I ever really showed you. I was always too worried about myself and my own life. I always assumed you knew and that there was lots of time to show you. Then one day…it was too late. You took your last breath in my old bedroom as I was touching your weak, frail hand. I remember telling you “ It’s ok Daddy…I am here.” Minutes later you were gone. You were finally free… free to fly. How could I wish you back into such pain? I just wanted you back for a little longer so that I could tell you how much you truly meant to me, how much I learned from you and that the hugs and kisses you use to give me really meant a lot even though I acted like it was no big deal. You needed to hear that you were my hero.
There are times I believe you have chosen to live on through Corey. I was 3 ½ months pregnant when you past away. What you did not know was that Corey was never to make it. Those first 3 months of the pregnancy were very touch and go. I was considered to be extremely high risk. I spotted continuously and was told that I would probably miscarry due to some health issues. You slipped away from me on September 30, 1994, a little after 9 pm and from that moment on I never spotted again. 5 ½ months later I gave birth to a healthy, happy baby boy.
I still miss you so much Dad. My heart skips a beat without you. Someday we will meet again.

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