Hello!
This is Part Three of my September Creations for Kaisercraft.
See Part one here.
See Part Two here.
Lets imagine you have all your Christmas cards sorted…what will you craft next? Why not dig up some Family Heritage photos and start your own Album with the Generations Collection? I am in the process of making a Heritage Album for my Mum. I guess the thing to remember about these albums is that they don’t have to be rushed and completed in a small time frame. (This is me telling myself this lol!) They can be a work in progress. It has taken me a considerable amount of time to collect photos for this album. I also signed up for a free trial on Ancestory.com.au and spent two weeks learning as much as I could about my Family Tree. You might be like me and find there is much to discover about your family that you really had no idea about. I was surprised how much I could find out about and how far back the records do go without too much searching. Finding photographs has proven to be a little more difficult than I first anticipated and you can see in my Family Tree I am missing some of my Mum’s great-great grandparents. I was amazed at how excited my family members were that I was collecting stories and photos…people really do value the preserving of memories. I was also surprised at how little most people in my family knew about our ancestors.
The first page has three photo spaces I used a picture of my Mum, because that is who I am doing this Family Tree Album for. Then the tree branches off to spaces for the central person’s Mother and Father photographs. I printed out names and dates for each person onto paper from the pad, cut them into a banner shape and layered them onto the lovely brown paper from the pad.
I inked a SB725 Wood Flourishes – Curls in Bark ink and stamped a flower onto some of the blue paper from the pad.
I just wanted subtle little decorations around the page so I used the Botanicals CS225 Clear Stamp – Fly Free to add a few dainty flowers and butterflies around the page in Bark ink.
The second page of the Layout goes into more details of the Family Tree. The first horizontal strip is the Grand-parents. The second horizontal strip is the Great-Grandparents. I have names and dates of these Great-Grandparents, but am still waiting to hopefully find their photos. The photo spaces get smaller in size as you progress along the tree.
Again I printed names and dates and made banners to identify the people in the photos.
I added lace and a little more stamping. Embellishing simply with Chocolate pearls.
Layout 2 – “Father”
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Layout #3 – “Mother”
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I hope to continue my work on this Album throughout the rest of the year so keep an eye out for some more Heritage Photo Layouts from me over the next few months.
