Generations

When my Dad came to visit over the winter he brought a folder of photos and notes from his genealogy research. I spent some time scanning photos and now need to get them scrapbooked. I just love old family photos - they can tell us so much about our history and where we came from.

This page has a photo of my great-grandmother and grandmother. The photo would be early 1920's. My grandma would have been 3 or 4 years old at the time - isn't she adorable? I find it amazing how similar my sister looked at the same age, although it might just be the pageboy haircut.

I wanted to draw the eye to Gramma so I added some colour to her sweater (using Photoshop). This is the first time I've tried this and I'm quite pleased with the result. To embellish the page, I made my own flower embellishments by fussy-cutting some of the flowers out of the patterned paper. There weren't enough flowers on the sheet so I scanned it, used Photoshop to isolate the flowers, adjusted their size and then printed them off. I added some fabric leaves from my stash and then layered everything onto the page using pop-dots. I finished off with a few green pearls to add a bit of bling (everything needs bling) and then a raised journaling square.

Recipe:

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  Bazzill cardstock
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  Imaginisce "Scratched" rub-ons
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  Fancy Pants Designs "Pansy" patterned paper
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  Fabric leaves (stash)
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  Pearls (stash)

Challenges:

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  Fab n' Funky - make your own embellishments
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  Practical Scrappers - use patterned paper (used for background and to make embellishments)
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  The Pink Elephant - use pink (pink for embellishments & matting)