I Look....I See....I Understand You

This is a layout I did of my son and I taken years ago during a very difficult time in our life. But when we looked into each others eyes we connected and we did manage to smile....I hate my profile shots due to my nose but the moment I seen this photo this is the one we had printed. I am sure my son and I both will remember this day but when I look at it I also see something beautiful .....a connection between a mother and son.

When I seen this Webster's pages paper I knew this was the one to use for this project.

I printed up a gate on transparency that was left over from cutting out all those hearts...thank you Sonya! This gate represents how I was feeling at the time... ever feel fenced in and no way out? Same way for the watch button normally I use my die cuts for my time pieces to represent something this... represents time stood still for a moment. Everything that I used on this layout has a reason and represents the feelings at the time of this photo shoot.

Scrapping is such good therapy for me and anyone that knows me.....knows "I ain't right!" I used some vinyl screen that I was saving for another project for my photo mat.....nothing is safe from us scrappers!

Cricut cartridges used: Hannah Montana for the butterflies sprayed with Glimmer Mist

Home Decor: Bird, Branch, and flourishes.

Home Accents:Leaves

Prima flowers and some flowers from my stash sprayed with the Glimmer Mist the lil primas are from Kristina thank you sooo much! I also used some dew drops in the centers again from Kristina from Your Memories Here

leaf ribbon from Frost It Pink,key & watch button from Jo-Ann Fabrics

I sooo bad wanted to tear my paper(to represent how tore-up I was at the time) and put some lacing on but I am still not brave enough to tear my beautiful paper... I know put my big girl panties on and just do it right?

I will try and take better pictures later if it gets nice out but wanted to get this posted while Aden was napping.