5x7 Shutterfly Ready Album

At Heritage Scrap

At Faith Sisters

I really enjoyed creating the Heroine Kit.  While I was working on the My Family Tree Shutterfly Album, it struck me that Heroine would make a nice brag book.  So I set to work creating an album that would work for Shutterfly's 5x7 brag book size which is not too expensive, so it makes a great gift. 

This would make a great Mother's Day gift - too bad I didn't think of it sooner!  If it fits your wedding colors it would make a beautiful wedding brag book, a small heritage overview book, pictures of the ladies in your family or other elegant occasions or a just because book.  I hope you will enjoy this!  Thank you for looking!



Catching Up - New Kits and Sale

My apologies for not keeping up on the blog.  Sometimes real life takes precedence over virtual life! :-)  Because I have been neglectful, there is a lot of catching up to do!

Through the new year, I will be having a 50% off sale at both myHeritage Scrap shop and my Faith Sisters shop.   Happy shopping and scrapping!  Now for my recent kits:





Winter Song is found here (FS) and here (HS) and was designed for the December 2010 My Sweet Song Challenge - The Perfect Gift at Faith Sisters.  The kit is filled with both musical and wintery, snowy elements and backgrounds with a touch of glitter in near neutral tones.  Here are some of my layouts created with this:

This is my wonderful Hubby and me on our wedding day, almost 12 years ago.  The lyrics are from the hymn we chose for congregational singing during our wedding.

This layout features a picture of my brother and I with our Daddy during the winter of 1968.  My brother was a year old and this was his first snow!  I should also mention that the ad above was created with this kit too.

Winter Wilderness is Heritage Scrap's December Designer Collaboration kit and there are some really beautiful kits.  You can see  my portion above.  I had so much fun making that plaid background that by the time I was done, I wanted to have a blouse made out of it! :-)  Winter Wilderness is designed to work with all your outdoor winter activities as well as your indoor get togethers.  I surely miss living where I could walk out in the woods in the snow!

In the past I have put some word art and title pieces in with kits but this is my first actual word art package.  It was really fun to create and is designed to help you journal and document your family traditions and your love of family and home.  You can find it at both Faith Sisters and Heritage Scrap.

This layout uses a title from the word art package and also my Holiday Baking kit which I released last November at Heritage Scrap and just loaded into my store at Faith Sisters.  It's fun for all your holiday baking and would work well for cookbooks, recipe cards and kitchen gifts.

More updates coming soon!

Made Ya Look Monday

Faith Sisters has a column called Made Ya Look Monday, where the administration chooses several layouts in the gallery that "make ya look". The layout above is one of mine that was chosen today. I created it using a wedding photo I took several years ago (and if you've been here before you have seen it in some of the heritage scrap layouts I've made) and a beautiful kit from Willro & Co Designs called Sweet Things .

I decided to play with it some more using Willro & Co's Sorbet Dream kit, also available at Faith Sisters. I'm trying to stretch myself creatively and work in some styles that are not my natural. I have a tendency to get too "tight" in my creativity and need to "loosen" up. So, I tried these heritage photos with modern design. It was kind of fun to do something different.

And today is this couple, my maternal, maternal great grandparents, would have celebrated their 104th wedding anniversary (if that were possible!).

I'll try to post more often. I have been a bit overwhelmed finding my way around forums and assignments and all the new things I am doing on the Creative Teams.

Jen Ulasiewicz

When I started back into digital scrapbooking this fall, I somehow found out about Jen Ulasiewicz and fell in love with her stuff! She has some incredibly beautiful brushes that I am dying to use in some of my heritage albums and she has also has beautiful photo realistic flowers, dried flowers and other natural elements that are so pretty. I've really been wanting to work with these but have been busy doing things for the Heritage Scrap Creative Team and haven't had a chance. Tonight I started working with them and the next layout is one of my favorites so far.

When I first saw her Vintage Lacy papers, I had this photo in mind. This is my favorite heritage photo of my great Grandparents Fred Tisdale and Winnifred "Winnie" Kirkland Tisdale. Most of the flowers come from the Blissful Blossoms package, except for the fern, baby's breath and Lily of the Valley (she calls them "Wedding Bells"), which come from the "With This Ring" wedding kit. The music paper and ivy frame come from the Vintage Antiquities Rustic Elements package. I used Edwardian Script for the font. I think I'll be printing this one up.

This is the wedding photo of the first couple's son, my grand Uncle Clifton Tisdale and his wife Nora. She had this fancy satin wedding gown that I thought fit along with the beautiful monochromatic "With This Ring" wedding set. The font is French Script.

Thanks for stopping by and making comments. I haven't worked out how to reply for comments yet, but am working on it. I also hope to do some more posting about different ideas and organizing with digital scrapbooking and not just layouts all the time.

Catching Up On Layouts

Well, I've been busy the last couple weeks working on layouts for Heritage Scrap and it has been a lot of fun. I haven't had time to get them loaded here, so this will be a long photo intensive, catch up post.

Digizines by Teri's lovely calendar kit that makes a small desk calendar that fits into a CD jewel case. Some pages have places for multiple pictures and a small amount of journaling and some have a single photo frame. These calendar templates lend themselves well to heritage photos as you can see here in these layouts. I highly recommend this fun project available here. I made this calendar using photos of my Husband's family for his Sister and she really liked it. My only complaint... I wish it was bigger! I am going to try and print one a little larger to see how it works.

When I saw Jean Daugherty's Master Painter kit, I knew I had to use it for this photograph of my great, great grand Aunt, Grace Hopkins True. Her life was sad in that she lost her little girl Ruth and her husband early in life. But some of her art has survived and I love this picture of her painting - it reminds me of my own Aunt, also Grace Hopkins, painting - same body shape and similar style, even though they never met! The hill on the background paper is similar to what she is painting in the picture. Thanks Jean for an awesome kit! Find the kit here.

This layout was also made from Jean's Master Painter kit and I love the photo real leaves. There were several lovely backgrounds and elements for fall pages, so you don't have to have art pictures to use this beautiful kit.

I was so excited to see Lynn Griffin's Winter Roses kit at Heritage Scrap, so I could play with it. It's so beautiful and like most of her kits, quite versatile. This is my favorite photo of my Mom as a toddler and I have done several layouts with it. I thought it lent itself well to the snowflakes and beautiful snowy designs. Font is CK Child's Play.

These are photos taken this week by my best friend Shelley in Washington state. I used four kits to put this layout together. The main ingredients come from Digizines by Teri's Old Fashioned Christmas page kit, the gray snow paper and the evergreen branches come from Lynn Griffin's Christmas Cottage kit, the letters are from Digizines by Teri's Pink Ice and the silver swirls in the upper corners come from the Faerie Holidays kit. All the kits were from Heritage Scrap.

This is made using the mini Old Fashioned Christmas page kit from Digizines by Teri and the evergreen branches of Lynn Griffin's Christmas Cottage. The child is my Uncle with my Grandparents dog and puppy, Christmas 1957. All available at Heritage Scrap.

I wanted to show how the Christmas kits can be used for other types of layouts. This is my Great Grandma, who worked as a milliner (hat maker) before marrying. The hatboxes inspired me to journal about this. I used the Faerie Holiday Kit from Digizines by Teri available at Heritage Scrap.

This layout was made with the Faerie Holidays kit as well. The picture is my Mom, Grandma Hopkins and I at my wedding ten years ago.

Another layout, this time using Lynn Griffin's gorgeous Christmas Cottage kit (free with purchase before Christmas 08) available at Heritage Scrap. The font is Jane Austen from dafont.com.

My Hubby and I met in the middle of the blizzard of '96! Two years later, almost to the date, we married. Ten years later and we have multiplied and are still happily together. These snowy papers from the Winter Wilderness kit and rich textured ribbons seemed perfect for one of our wedding pictures. The evergreen branches are from Lynn Griffin's Christmas Cottage kit. Both kits are available at Heritage Scrap.

This is my favorite layout to date. I am very blessed to have some special things from my Mom's, father's family. The writing on the paper is from Sedgewick Hopkins, my ggg grandfather and the photos are of him and his wife and children except for the one from a book that is water stained which is an engraving of his grandfather and family. This was a fun layout to do and Silvia Romeo's Old Time Shoppe papers and elements lent themselves well to this layout and theme. Kit available at Heritage Scrap.

Another one from the same kit. I made this layout featuring some unlabeled photos in my files - a great example of why you should label and journal!!! This was made with Silvia Romeo's Old Time Shoppe kit. If you have "mystery family" I do recommend putting them in your album. You never know who might look at it one day and know exactly who they are! One can always hope!

This is my Uncle with their dog Viking and a puppy on my Grandparents porch Christmas time 1957. The porch looked pretty grungy and I thought it matched with the worn paper. I used the Faith Sisters Collaborative "CHRISTmas". The background came from Claudi Designs, the overlay from Digiscrapalicious, The Snowflake like designs from Lifesong Kreations by Karla and the Swirl from Nikki Painter. Kit available at Faith Sisters The font is Euphorigenic S.

Another layout with my Great Grandma as a teenager. I used the Nanna's Armoire Lace alpha from Kate McClellan and Silvia Romeo's Arabesque Revisited kit, both from Heritage Scrap. If I did this over I would probably move the bird a little, because it looks like the beak will poke her brains out! LOL

I love this baby photo of my great Grandma, taken about 1906. I used the soft and beautiful papers and elements available in Silvia Romeo's "Arabesque Revisited", from Heritage Scrap.

Another Wedding Layout

I'm still playing with these wedding photos. It is fun blending the photo to create my own backgrounds. These rich and warm papers and elements come from Silvia Romeo's Masterpieces kit at HeritageScrap.com. I'm not usually a bling girl, but I liked how these looked with the photo. The font is CK Elegant from Creating Keepsakes.

Alden and Holly

This is of my grandparents, who were high school sweethearts. When they got married there were lots of pink roses and Grandma wore her birthstone, pearls, so when I saw Clohie Watkins Mrs. Watkins' Pink Wonders digitally painted roses and her pearls and roses kit, I knew I had to do something with this picture. Both are availabe at heritagescrap.com.

John and Monique

Here are two more pages using Clohie Watkins' Pearls and Roses kit and gorgeous digitally painted roses, both available at Heritage Scrap. For the second photo of the bride, I placed her on a background paper that had coloring in the lace and stronger texture. I liked the water color look it gave. I also altered the pearls and roses by removing some of the pink tint from them because the bride's bouqet is peach roses. This is a very easy color adjustment to make.

Monique

We are a bunch of sickies around here today, so we are vegging out - the kids are playing with their Legos and I am playing on my laptop! :-) I worked on some more layouts for Heritage Scrap using Clohie Watkins' gorgeous digitally painted roses and Pearls and Roses kit. This photographic is from a garden wedding I photographed a few years ago. The wedding was beautiful with lots of roses in different colors and this impressionist style paper looked just like the wedding setting.

Memories

These two were made with Lynn Griffin's lovely Warmest Wishes Page Kit available at heritagescrap.com.

Three Generations of Hopkins Women

This is one of my favorite pictures from the wedding of my Mom, my Grandma Hopkins and me. Since Grandma's suit was bright blue, I used a vintage effect to neutralize the photo. I was so blessed to have her alive and healthy for my wedding. Two years later she went Home. This is another page using Kate McClellan's beautiful Vintage Valentine papers in Le Creme and Le Rouge along with Lynn Griffin's Holiday Home page kit, both available at Heritage Scrap. See links in the previous post.

December Bride

You'll be tired of seeing our faces soon as I seek to find the perfect layout to commemorate our ten years together. This one is made from Kate McClellan's gorgeous Victorian Valentine papers in Le Creme and Le Rouge at Heritage Scrap. The poinsettias, evergreen branches and frame come from Lynn Griffin's Holiday Home, also from Heritage Scrap.

Christmas Bride

As our tenth wedding anniversary approaches this month, I'll probably be posting several wedding layouts. We didn't have a professional wedding photography and that is the only thing I would change if I could about our wedding. Still, this is my favorite picture of the day because it shows exactly how HAPPY I was. I cannot remember ever feeling so much joy in my being, except perhaps the day I accepted Christ and was baptised.

The background papers and corner brackets are from Julie Jorgenson's Vintage Bride kit at Scrapbook Elements. She has some really lovely papers. The evergreen's are Verena Karolyi's silver fir branches, which I added to a ribbon and flower cluster from Teri Hanson's new preview kit on sale now - Winter Wilderness. She has some really lovely things in this kit! I can't wait to play with it more.