Nothing to Lose!
Well, this is my first contest I've entered, ever...and this is my second scrapbooking layout. It was created for the Re-JUNE-venate 2011 game, and a member suggested that I enter it in the contest, so I figured, "Why not?"
I'm new to scrapbooking, digital or otherwise. I'm hooked to both but I like the digital better because it's less messy and I'm more creative on the computer. I have been using Paintshop Pro for about 8 years and used to make signature tags as my "thing" but now I've discovered THIS and I'm hooked.
In this layout, my dad stands next to his recruiter. He's 16 or 17 here, cocky, thinking he'd pulled one over on them because he was enlisted and not even 18!. Well, he went through training and served a little bit in Korea before they discovered that he wasn't old enough, and they discharged him.
He and my mother got divorced when I was a year old. My sister was 2 and my brother was 5. There was no way that my dad was giving up his kids and my mom didn't try to argue with him. He raised us only, an amazing feat for the times. In the 60s, not many men kept the kids when the parents split.
We lost him unexpectedly in 2007 and it's still fresh, but time does heal wounds and each year, each month, it gets a little easier.
He was, IS my biggest hero.
Supplies
DS_Thank You Dad_Add-On_metal tags
correensilke_sl-corner
TheQueenOfQuirk_2ps_GiveFreely_PP3
correensilke_atp-staple
SeaSwept_Rdickson_tag
k-josscraps_australia_elements3
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