Thursday, August 25, 2011

From a Mother's Heart

 
Hi there, it's Hera hosting today from Cappuccino and Colour! After recently receiving the three gorgeous new colours the Twinery produced, denim, buttercream and stone - i chose to spotlight DENIM. It's such a brilliant shade of blue.


By now you are no doubt getting used to my very clean and simple style so this layout is no big surprise...however i wanted to point out two things on this page.

The first is that it is possible to put pink on your 12 year old son's project (as long as he doesnt see it!! lol) Actually there is good reason for this and that is, this page is loaded with emotion and pink was my way of bringing that through. My son will start college tomorrow and although he is over the moon excited about it, Mami is somewhat more subdued. Mami's are allowed to be like that on milestones, right? Anyway the real deal is - my first born is halfway out the door as my lovely husband rather more 'positively' prefers to see it!!?? I, on the other hand, am happy, proud and pretty sad mixed together ie. a mess! and i chose pink to portray my motherly emotional "mess" :-)

Secondly and most importantly, I wanted to really let the "denim" be in the limelight here and show you that a few loose strands of this beautiful twine is all one needs to add interest to an almost paper-only page. There is no fancy tying or knotting it is simply detailing how the radiant denim colour totally contrasts to the papers and just goes to show -



Twine can be all you need to give a layout the perfect finishing touch. Et voila, my page dedicated to my son's first day in college, tomorrow...


I am sure there will be some happy tears shed by she who shall remain nameless but once that's all out of the way I am thinking we might just bring out the cupcakes and candles (and bubbles!) 
and celebrate our big boy.. moving on.


Thanks for popping in today and I hope you are inspired to add a dash of DENIM to your next project!



7 comments:

  1. Oooh that does look like a gorgeous colour!! Thanks for sharing :)

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  2. Love the colors featured today! Your LO is terrific.

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  3. I salute you for having such a nice color choice today... good choice.


    Cass from Lead Guitar Lessons

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  4. Oh Hera I totally understand what your emotions are like...We are moving our Oldest daughter to University on Sunday..I hope I can be strong. It is so hard to let go!! Great project and a wonderful way to celebrate the Big "Moving on" Day :)... Hugs Monique

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  5. such great projects...seems like all us Mommy's are having a hard time letting go!

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  6. Love the layout, thanks for sharing it. As a mommy who just moved her oldest to college yesterday (it's his 2nd year), the first drop off is the hardest (not that they're ever easy!). Be warned you'll all experience lots of emotions but it seems like us moms get hit the hardest and also have A LOT of kleenex with you when you enter his room at home the first time - that was the absolute worst moment of the entire experience. In fact, I have yet to go in there this year, too afraid. Good luck on Moving Day!

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