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.

Created with Maya DeGroot's Zen and the Art of Nutcrackers kit Font is Cookie

Created using Pixabay photo by fietzfotos required by the challenge plus Mediterranka's Winter Tea Party collection

My Mom (left) passed away in 2015 and my MIL, Grammy, in 2020. I'm feeling particularly bereft this season, so I am scrapping the feeling away! Background is paper 8 in Soft Light mode over paper 2. Then I added the frames and photos. I make a copy of the frame, applying shadows to the...

I have had 3 wonderful mothers – my Mother (Momma, who is still living), my stepmother (Mom), and my Mother-in-Law (Grammy). This picture of Mom is so beautiful and rather unexpected. I always knew her as a blonde. NOT! At 16 she was almost as dark headed as me! Mom was a definite PINK person...

A popular reading trope is the Found Family Trope. Where people whom the main character considers to be family, has gathered around them, but who are not biologically related. So what happens if you find actual biological family that you never knew you had?? That is what happened to my...

NOVEMBER CHALLENGE #7 WORD ART

This is a copy of a photo of my husband's family that was in very bad condition. I did what I could with it, lightened up the dark images and darkened the blown out images.