Guest Designing for Scrapping Everyday Miracles!

Hello there! I am so have the opportunity to be back as a Guest Designer for SEM. As a former DT, I was blessed to meet so many wonderful ladies and share in God's everyday miracles with them!

Today I would like to share with you my page based on the month's theme of "Love."

I used the SEM February sketch and My Mind's Eye Lost and Found Collection.

 The flowers are all from a lucky find at a thrift store combined with Tim Holtz baubles and Maya Road gems.I actually sewed, which is unusual for me but I like how it turned out.

Take a closer look at my frame:

I was inspired by this tutorial by Joyce Lawrence. 

First I painted the wooden frame from Michael's with white acrylic paint. Then I took this stamp from Something Tattered 

and stamped the frame with clear embossing powder. Once that dried, I used Distress Inks in Tattered Rose,Victorian Velvet,Weathered Wood and a Martha Stewart Turquoise to shade in different areas of the frame. I love the way the resist emboss looks both in pattern and texture!

The story behind the page: This is a picture of my daughter,Naomi,last May, before she took the stage to perform the opening number for "Berkshire Idol", our county's local version of American Idol. Having won the previous year's Junior Division, she won the spot to open the show,singing whatever she wanted.

We had practiced several songs but at the last minute she changed her song and dedicated the new song to me. The song she chose was "The Best Day" by Taylor Swift, a touching song from a daughter to a mother and she ended her performance with an,"I love you,Mom." I couldn't have been more proud and humbled at the same time. As some of you know,Naomi is a former foster child that I was blessed to adopt..so every Mother's Day I am amazed at this beautiful gift God brought me!

Here is the link to her performance and the lyrics. 

And yes,you will probably want a tissue. 

Thanks again to SEM for having me as a Guest DT!

The Best Day

I'm five years old

It's getting cold

I've got my big coat on

I hear your laugh

And look up smiling at you

I run and run

Past the pumpkin patch

And the tractor rides

Look now -- the sky is gold

I hug your legs and fall asleep

On the way home

I don't know why all the trees change in the fall

I know you're not scared of anything at all

Don't know if Snow White's house is near or far away

But I know I had the best day

With you today

I'm thirteen now

And don't know how my friends

Could be so mean

I come home crying and you hold me tight and grab the keys

And we drive and drive

Until we've found a town

Far enough away

And we talk and window-shop

Until I've forgotten all their names

I don't know who I'm gonna talk to

Now at school

I know I'm laughing on the car ride home with you

Don't know how long it's gonna take to feel okay

But I know I had the best day

With you today

I have an excellent mother

Her strength is making me stronger

God smiles on my big brothers

Inside and out

They're better than I am

I grew up in a pretty house

And I had space to run

And I had the best days with you

There is a video

I found from back when I was three

You set up a paint set in the kitchen

And you're talking to me

It's the age of princesses and pirate ships

And the seven dwarfs

Daddy's smart

And you're the prettiest lady in the whole wide world

Now I know why all the trees change in the fall

I know you were on my side

Even when I was wrong

And I love you for giving me your eyes

Staying back and watching me shine

And I didn't know if you knew

So I'm taking this chance to say

That I had the best day

With you today