Text Reads: The youngest child of five, Joseph Louis, was born in Rockford Illinois on February 11, 1895 when his father, Charles, worked at the Peacock Brewery.
Joe married "Edith" Ida Malitha Habel on June 5, 1916,in Sioux City, Iowa. They had fifteen children. During the depression, Joe worked as a fireman for the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad. He became a railroad engineer before he retired. Joe and Edith retired to Minnesota to fish. They were able to celebrate their marriage's 60th Anniversary in 1976 with most of their family.

Construction: I started with the FotoInspired Template Album No 3B #5, clipping my various photos to the template’s masks. I did an extraction of the 50th anniversary plate. I also extracted several layers of the template’s tag to get it to look right with a photo. I revised the heart corner with a Solid Color Adjustment.
For the background, I used ArtPlay Palette Rhapsody Solid Paper #6 (from the Rhapsody Collection Bonus no longer available). I then added several layers of paper textures, ArtsyKardz, brushes and ArtsyTransfers. I also applied a Photoshop Adjustment Preset, Portraits - Sunshine, to several of the lower layers.
For the title cluster, I modified Music WordART Cluster No 1 #2, using the beaded thread “years” with the word “through” (font AuraBlue Bold) and changing the pink heard to gold with a hue/saturation adjustment.