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The Invisible Threads
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The Invisible Threads

A page for my grand's baby book about those who came before on the maternal side, using cell phone photos that were snapped from snapshots of paper copies of the originals and emailed to me. (Artsy stains and brushes to the rescue.) I have another page to do about my father's parents.

This design was an exercise in working with what you've got. I started by dragging all the images onto the page, arranging them in approximate position, and eliminating the relatives who were positioned at the table between my grandparents to leave more room for the photo of my mother. To hide the left edge of that photo, I snipped a bit off the frame included in the Fabric Artplay Palette and added that. I then blasted the layout with Threadz and added the scissors. I added one angel wing for my mother (editorial comment). Other things: I used the pencil tool in PSE to freehand-outline the ripped top of the the photo of my mother (to suggest castle turrets) and the yearbook clipping of my father, added lots of spackle/tape/paper textures, and applied a couple of gradients to deepen the tones on the images.
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  1. Anna Aspnes
Truly a work of art and heart. I admire your abilities to make something work and then some. This will be a treasure in the book. I love the use of the multiple stitchez, reminds me of “Adryane’s” art. Bravo.
 
Truly a work of art and heart. I admire your abilities to make something work and then some. This will be a treasure in the book. I love the use of the multiple stitchez, reminds me of “Adryane’s” art. Bravo.
Thank you! It is an honor to remind you of the incomparable Adryane!
 
Amazing job working with what you've got! Love the hand-drawn turrets and all the threadz! I have photos of my mom with the same hairdo as yours - a statement of an era! There's something really compelling about that brown background!
 
This is fabulous! Love the 'blast of threadz' and the castle top is so extra. A great and gorgeous heritage page.
 
creative page and wonderful use of urban stitches.
It's always difficult to get enough photo material for pages like this.
 

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