Text Reads: My dad, Charles Wolf, was a little tyke in 1922. All the pictures of him around 2 years of age also have either his older sister, Katie, age 5, or his older brother, Joe, age 4. After the first 3 in what was to be a family of 15, you forget about taking pictures. Font: Baskerville Old Face

Construction: I started the background with ArtPlay MiniPalette Yare Solid Paper #1 and placed Solid Paper #2 over the top with Multiply blending at 48%. I then placed the minipalette’s ArtsyTransfer. I added leaves transfers from the Relative ArtsyLayered Template.
I placed Relative FotoBlendz No 1 #2 and clipped my photo to masks #1 & 2. I extracted the children and blended 3 different blending modes and recolored with photo filter adjustment.
I placed MultiMedia Trees No 1 #3, then placed the MiniPalette Yare White Oval Frame, clipping my photo to the mask. I duplicated the frame, blended Multiply at 70%. I also played with the shadowing. I added the Lace from the miniPalette in 2 placed and added a shadow.
Embelishments: I duplicated the leaf from MultiMedia Trees No 1 #3 and placed at the bottom of the grasses over the frame. I used the BONUS MultiMedia Trees No 1 #5 Stamen and urbanthreadz, recoloring the stamen slightly. Then I duplicated that for the right edge.
The title “Roots” is from Family WordART Mix No 4.