Hello again! I have something different to share with you. I am sure you don't know, but I actually started my paper crafting journey in scrapbooking. I have a couple scrapbooks in my craft room that I worked on before I started my blog. My son has never been one to like his picture taken so that didn't leave me with much to use on my pages. Fast forward several years later and I decided to take a bunch of old photos and start back on some layouts.
It is hard for me not to look at this and see the many things I would do different if I had it to do all over again. For one, I would have cut the top of the photo off that is blank, the journaling would have been placed along the side of the photo, and I wouldn't have used that darn stencil on the top left of the page that made a mess and bled underneath. Another thing I learned, it is super hard to photograph a layout that is warped from mists or water of any sort. I ended up matting this to another 12x12 cardstock piece stitched around the edges to give it more stability.
This photo is of my grandmother when she was 15. I think it is safe to say that EVERYONE looked so beautiful in those old photos. My grandmother's name was Faye, as you see on the page and was the most kind, giving and unselfish person I have ever met to this day. She passes away when my son was 8 months old, he is now 13.
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I have seen many layouts using the sketches from
Once Upon a Sketch over the last year or so, all over the internet and Pinterest. That was the first place I looked after I had some professional prints made of my photos. Speaking of photos, Archiver's has a
Memory Lab that they just installed in my local store. They can print copies from old photos, discs and so on.
Thanks so much for stopping by,
Heather
