Nigezza Creates aka Gez, Independent Stampin' Up® Demonstrator
Thank you for visiting my blog, I really do appreciate it. Today I am hopping with the Ink & Share Scrapbook Blog Hop. The theme this month was 'M' we could take that letter and do what we wanted with it. I took it and made Mum. As it was mother's day last week in the UK I was remembering my lovely mum and looking though old photos. As I am the sibling who scrapbooks and is obsessed with preserving photos I have inherited all mum & dads photos and am slowly digitalising them so they will be available for years to come. I just love the photo of my mum on her First Holy Communion taken in her back garden in the house she grew up in with her 9 brothers and sisters! I equally love the photo of my dad as a little boy, I love how this studio photo was touched up with some colour. Both these photos will date back to the late 1930s/early 1940s and are a real treasure. I decided that they needed to be off my computer and onto a scrapbook layout. Now it is done I think it will actually go in a frame on the wall. I have kept it simple and tried to create something vintage and in keeping with the age of the pictures.
Measurements and Materials
- Very Vanilla 12x12 card stock
- Photos matted onto Early Espresso with a 1/8" border on 3 sides and 1/4" on the bottom
- This was to give the look of cabinet cards, the old fashioned way studio portraits were presented
- Flowering Vines die cuts in Crumb Cake used behind the photos.
- Playful Alphabet dies used for the titles Mum & Dad
- Lace and braid added to the bottom of the faux cabinet cards.
- 3 scored lines were done 1/8" apart on all 4 sides
- Crumb Cake ink used to distress the edges of the layout to give a vintage look
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Happy Crafting!
Gez xxx
Happy Crafting!
Gez xxx
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- If you want to start a business for £99 then this is the way to do it!
- Choose £130 of products for £99
- Support from me and the wider team when you join my team
- I am also a Pootler which is Pootles team (Sam)
- You will also become one of these when you join with me
- No obligation to sell, make videos, blog etc
- You can just join up and get the 20% discount for yourself
Aww, your parents look so sweet! Lovely simple layout and really lovely that it's going to be on show on a wall so everyone can enjoy. Karen x
ReplyDeleteBeautiful - thank you for sharing with us :-)
ReplyDeleteVery Beautiful! Simple and yet with the beautiful effects in the right places. This shows the photos to their best advantage.
ReplyDeleteLove how you've aged the paper and created the lines around the page. thank you for hopping with us this month
ReplyDeleteDear GEZ, a beautiful layout. I find it very beautiful and harmonious. I like how you used the punches. Thank you for showing me. All the best, Doro
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