Featured Page - Ola

This heritage layout spotlights a photo of my Great-Great Grandmother, Frances Iola "Ola" Witt Quattlebaum.
 In this scrapbook page, I made liberal use of Tim Holtz distress ink and Hero Arts Stamps. I crated the branch pattern on the paper using a stamp which I also used to create the paper directly under the photo. The brown pattern was created with TH Distress Ink and the white pattern was created with embossing powder. The full supply list is below the image.

• Paper
• 7 Gypsies: avignon
• Ink
• Tim Holtz: Distress Ink - Walnut Stain
• Stamps
• Hero Arts: Scroll Tree F4927
• Hero Arts: Manuscript Background H2141
• Hero Arts: Birds And Branches AR173
• Embelishments
• Tim Holtz: Grungeboard - Mixed Minis Plain

Featured Page - Circa 1917 (The Boatright Family)

I created this heritage layout for a photo of the Barfield Family that I received from Mitch, a distant cousin. Many of the folks in this photo are unidentified, but I do know which ones are my direct relatives. The oldest couple (middle row, center left-ish) are Steve and Dora (Logue) Boatright, my GGG-Grandparents. To the right is their daughter, Frances, and her husband, William Barfield. Around them are their children, including my Great-Grandmother, Ledora, the taller girl in front of them.




Some of the materials I used to create this scrapbook layout include:

• Paper
• BasicGrey: Porcelain Chintz por-1614
• Kaiser Craft: Reminiscing P203 Hold Dear (double sided)
• Ink
• Tim Holtz: Distress Ink - Walnut Stain
• Stamp
• Creative Cafe: Self-Inking Stamp - Real Life
• Embellishments
• Tim Holtz: Idea-ology Film Strip Ribbon
• BoBunny: iCandy brads - Jazmyne
• Tim Holtz: Grungeboard - Mixed Minis Plain (the numbers)
• BasicGrey: Indian Summer - mini monogram stickers - hip

This Is How I Use Original Photos

Wow, I haven't posted on this blog since last December! I guess I've been pretty inactive with any craft projects... But the inspiration but has hit again. Here's some information on a project I did last month.

Previously, I wrote about how I find that it can be OK to use original photos in scrapbooks. Let me show you an example of how I would do this:



This is a photo album that I put together using photos from my dad's family. These old photos are all different sizes and shapes, which makes it difficult to put them in today's standard 4x6 and 5x7 photo albums.  To get around this problem, I used photo corners to adhere each photo to piece of black 4x6 card stock. I love the black because it gives it that antique, old-style, look. I then labeled the photos with a white soufflé pen. I was then able to securely place the photos into the pre-sized photo albums.

Here's a close-up of the page:




You might be saying, there isn't much "scrapbooking" in this scrapbook. No, there's not. But, there could easily be. Because this album has the divided, pre-cut spaces, you could create a title card, identification card, or any other type of decorative card that you want. Any corrosive elements would be fully segregated from your original photos, but would also be displayed right next to them. I might go back and do some of those later....

Here are the materials that I used in this album:

• Archivers pre-cut Cardstock: Black
• Scrapbook Adhesives Photo Corners: Black & Silver
• Soufflé pen: white

Featured Page - Sisters

This heritage layout goes into my mom's biography scrapbook. It features her and her sister as kids. I used acetate as the base paper. I used Hero Arts stamps for the green flowers on the acetate, as well as to add flowers to the center of my K&CO flower shaped tags. I also used a Hero Arts stamp for the card that the title is on.

Family Tree Diagram Papers

I recommend using Family Tree diagram papers to help keep your scrapbooks organized and to help tell your family story. Here are some you might choose from:

Deja Views Kit:


Ancestry.com Papers from K&Co:


Bazzill Basics Papers:


My Mind's Eye Papers:

Karen Foster Kit:

Memorial Shadow Box

Here's a project I did today, a memorial shadow box. This shadow box displays a photo of my paternal grandparents, Thomas and Sarah Craft. I included two photos of them, an army medallion and a copy of their marriage certificate. I really like how it came out, as well as the fact that I can change it if I want to.

Products used:

• Pioneer's self-adhesive army medallion

• Tim Holtz's ornate plates

• TPC Studio's framed dome stickers

• Martha Stewart's photo corner punch

• other assorted scrapbooking items

Difficult to Remove Photos: Two Solutions

While transferring the family photos from the old magnetic albums to archival safe scrapbooks, I occasionally come across photos that are difficult to remove. In this video, I show two methods that I'm using to remove them.