What sweet photos. Wonderful choices here that really allow the photos to speak for themselves.

Lovely piece, Kay! You make cluster work look so easy. Beautiful, uncluttered composition.

Oh, this collection will be fun. I just love the light-hearted feel of this piece. Wonderful composition!

Beautiful use of white space and great masking!

Isn't this just neat? I love the layering here and the beautiful choice of elements.

WOW! This really did end my day beautifully. Thanks so much Cheryl - I am both honored and humbled. Jenn did all the hard work! Now I think I shall let those stars shine down on me and hum myself to sleep!

Oh! Thanks so much Cheryl! That is the perfect ending to the day!

This September 2023 Color Play bundle is fabulous! I used 5 papers

This is another place on my bucket list to revisit. I used 5 papers on all Shabby Solids paper 7 on thin frame bottom left Shabby Solids paper 8 in Difference mode over Shabby Solids paper 04 in Exclusion mode blended over thin frame from template top right Photo posterized in Pin Light Mode...

Paper Fall 01 in Lighten mode over shabby solids paper 3 in Pin Light mode over artsy paper 5 form the background with stamps over and under. The images are all on collection masks.

I was in only 3rd grade when The Beatles took the US by storm and didn't learn to truly appreciate them until I was in 7th grade and we did some McCartney ballads in Girl's Glee Club. I was hooked. This ballad - "Let It Be" - is just loaded with sage advice but sung so longingly. One of my...

Sadie and Mabel are first cousins twice removed. Their father and my great grandfather were brothers.

I will. Iowa comes after this, too.

Thanks so much. I am so honored!

Sadie Winter and Willi Denton were step-siblings that fell in love. They married 19 February 1906 in Gilmore City, Iowa. Sadly, it appears they had no children but a number of family members lived with them through the years. Will graduated as a pharmacist in 1913 and the Dentons opened their...

When the Winter family arrived in the United States in March of 1882, James had just turned 20 om 16 January. The family proceeded from New York City to Livingston County, Illinois where Jane’s sister and brother-in-law Holland and Ellen Eyre Catton and brother and sister-in-law George and Alice...

Background: paper 07 in Multiply mode over paper 12 in Linear Burn mode over paper 18. I used two of the collection's photo clusters and tucked various elements and paint over and under.

The journaling on this will be on a separate page. Cousin Diane Cooling is sending more photos. Yay! These sisters are related by marriage. Date is on the tag at top left. Thanks fopr hosting, Kay!

These 3 women are related by marriage. Alice (bottom) married my 2X great granduncle George Eyre. Her sister Mary (middle married Charles Cooling Sr. and their son Charles Junior married my 1st cousin twice removed Florence Mary Todd. I haven't figured out Anne yet, but know she is their...

What a happy find, a real treasure!