This is for the May AJ Challenge that will be posted tomorrow!

My niece unexpecte4dly lost her mother recently and this is for her. I deliberately added no journaling so Shannon can add her own. The background is paper 19 in Pin Light mode over paper 02. Other than that, there are no special techniques here - just play with it until it feels and looks right!

I did a diagonal cut along the top layer of paper to divide into two papers for the background, then I resized overlays for under the photo and placed elements below and a few between the photo and frame. I resized the heart to place beside the word art.

This is the other half of my family. Momma and Daddy divorced in 1963 and it was final in 1964. In early 1965, we moved to El Paso, Texas and after school let out that year we moved to Anthony, New Mexico/Texas. We lived on the Texas side in a little apartment complex run by my grandparents. It...

I layered elements and overlays, erasing unneeded bits, resizing and duplicating.

Lots of layers above and below the stacked photos with a frame layered over the photos. A paper was clipped to a brush file and some burgundy stamps were placed on either side to help balance out the colors.

Blended two photos into the top layer of the stacked background papers. The bird was duplicated and slightly resized as I scattered them across the top of the page.

For the Heritage Challenge

Journaling reads: When George and Annie Winter Todd and their five oldest children left Lincolnshire for the United States it must have been bittersweet. Annie was surely elated that she would soon see her parents and 9 of her 10 living siblings. For George, I’m sure the excitement was tempered...

This is my great grand Annie Winter and her husband George Todd around 1895. See the companion page for some of their story. For the challenge, I used the center horizontal line - text overlay, photo, flowers. I used no special techniques in this LO. I simply started with the background...

Xmas is family and home. Home may be where the heart is. Home is also where the family is. As long as we are all together as a family, everything is still right in our world. Photo Dated Dec 2013. From left to right. My son aged 11, Myself and my Spouse.

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