Featured Page - 400 Whitehall

     My maternal Granfather's mom and step-father owned and operated The Frederick Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia during the 1940s and 1950s. I heard family stories about the hotel, which many family members stayed in at one time or another. Unfortunately, the location where the hotel once stood is now a park-and-ride for MARTA customers. I was very disappointed to discover this, as I wanted to see what the hotel looked like.  Recently, my mom and I visited my Great-Aunt Ree, who gave me a number of old photos. Included in those photos were three of the hotel.  I've put them into the layout below. I did a lot of heat embossing in this layout. Both the '400' and the keys were given their gold color using heat embossing.




Supplies:

• Paper
• 7 gypsies: For Autumn Leaves #1958 
• Stamp:
• Hero Arts: Antique Keys CG178
• Embellishments
• 7 gypsises: Antique Keys
• Tim Holtz: Grungeboard - Digits & Punctuation: Swirl
• Ranger: Embossing Powder - Super Fine Gold
• VeraMark: Watermark Stamp Pad

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

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