Heritage Lay-Out/Faux "Sealing Wax" Seals

1925 Photo of Hubby's Great Great Grandmother

I scanned and printed the back of the picture postcard which had my husband's grandmother's handwriting.  I wanted it to be part of the lay-out.

Isn't this a great purse! I would love to have that today...from 1925.









Here is a close up of the clay seal I created in the flower center. I added the brad, painted and sprayed glimmer mist after baking.

I wanted to show you another way to use the clay seals. I created this pocket to add to a scrapbook lay-out. A sneaky way to add more pictures, journaling or memorabilia to a page.

These project is linked to these challenges:

Tammy's Scrapin' Corner Homemade EmbellishmentChallenge

Family Quote

"FAMILY" Collage

"The memories of these fabrics are woven into our hearts."

I finally finished this little collage which holds some wonderful memories!! It holds ribbon, tulle and the flower from my 38yr old flower girl dress that I wore when I was...very little, I can't give a way my age :)

It also has some sprigs of pearls from my wedding hair piece and vintage lace (across the bottom) from hubby's grandmother.

The backing is decorative paper sewn on stiff fabric . I hope the knob it is hanging above doesn't keep you from seeing it well. You can click on it to see it larger. The dresser it adorns is a 1930's which was hubby's grandparents wedding gift.

It took me forever to finish this and make my final decisions...it sat for months at a time but I love the depth it represents.

This project is linked to This Party.

You HAVE to check out Angela's site, http://wwwcreativecreationsbyangela.blogspot.com/

She is so excited to start monthly challenges and she is going to start up a new website store.

She will be selling her hand made JEWELRY, CARDS, and Altered Art ( Picture frames, bedroom letters, decorative art, etc... ) She is hoping to have my site up within the next month or sooner!

Very fun!! She also is giving away goodies to 3 of her followers as a bonus!! Thanks Angela!!

Memory Bottle

This is one of my summer projects. The other is helping my 7 and 9yr old girls finish their minibook of their new baby cousin...who is 2 yrs old now.

I found this beautiful bottle at a church yard sale. I transformed it into a memory bottle for my lovely Nana Isabelle Mae. The handmade charm was given to her more than 55yrs ago.

Parties I linked this project to:

http://niftythriftythings.blogspot.com/

http://www.scrappy-gifts.com/

Check out the sparkles in this new Creative Scrapbooking Diva's blinkie. They have a new site within blogger now with so many ideas, challenges and tutorials. They are alot of fun to hang out with!! It's been a while for me but I hope to start playing again very soon.

http://creativescrapbookingdivas.blogspot.com/

Timeless

This is a "photo shoot" that was very spontaneous. Out of the cedar chest came the dress I wore as the flower girl to my Aunt's wedding. My 4yr old couldn't wait to play dress up with it. We had the best time together and from it came the most treasured pictures, wrinkled tulle, ribbons and all.

So with this lay-out I created a wonderful envelope to hold the story of this most treasured time and timeless dress.

This lay-out includes ribbon, flowers, white leaves and tulle (behind the matted picture) from the veil and dress. Don't you just love the fuzzy pink slippers with this dress??

It couldn't stop there. I put these precious little gloves with parts of the veil in a shadow box with a picture of me in the wedding and a picture, I won't say how many yrs later, of my 4yr.old in the same dress. The cedar chest preserved everything so beautifully with no hint of yellowing.

Just some wall art in our bedroom with some wonderful old oval buttons and big mother-of-pearl buttons. I covered the canvas with material that matches our quilt and edged it with lace.

The buttons are hot glued on (which I didn't think would hold long but it's been on our wall a couple years now).

Milk-Resist Stamped Horse Card

This is one of my creations from my milk-resist stamping technique shown in October. I found this great picture of my mother on a rocking horse next to her backyard fence and very faithful dolly. I had this scanned for a very unique Christmas card for her.

Family Collage

This is a very special collage I designed to honor our lives, our wedding 13 years ago and our loved ones. The journal envelope opens to list all the special items on this canvas collage and explains who each piece belonged to or why it is special to us. Our wedding invitation is centered within a pocket made from an old runner belonging to my husbands grandmother. The pearls and lace/pearl ovals are from my veil as well as the tulle around the edge of the whole collage. The floral piece covered with lace and the front of the journal is material also used in our quilt, a wedding present.