The Devil's in the Detail.

I love scrapping vintage photographs. Recently I found an old negative and managed to scan it and create a lovely photo recording a wonderful moment from my Mother's family.

Here were four generations of the family altogether outside my Grandmother's house. This was only the second photo I'd ever seen of my Great-Grandmother which made the photo extra special!

 

I wanted to make a really feminine layout and started by deciding to use some of the gorgeous Webster's Pages paper with the classic red roses on. I kept with the red and cream colour scheme and the roses for my embellishments:

 

I used an 'old' technique on this yummy paper where I trimmed the pattern on the paper so it would form a frame around the photograph-it's very quick and easy to do with a craft knife and brings the paper onto the photograph:

 

I used paper roses in 2 sizes in red and cream (from Hobbycraft) as well as some pretty red lace to highlight to photograph and the journalling because the story was just as important :

Although you can't see it on the photograph of the layout the roses all had a little sparkle from adding Rock Candy Distress Glitter which is a vintage looking, clear glitter from Ranger.

Inspired by Tim Holtz I used some filmstrip as embellishment along with little metal tags and paper tags from Making memories. I wanted the embellishments for this layout to add to its meaning and partly tell the story:

 

So there you have it a layout with a vintage yet feminine feel that tells one of the stories from my family!

Happy Crafting!

GlitteryKatie XxXXxX

Comments

[Eleanor]

It's a truly beautiful result from that one old negative. I'm so jealous - I wish I had old family photos to scrap. You've obviously done some research too (squinting to read your journalling - 15 wow). Fab.
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[heather]

What a great result from an old negative!! Love the layout you did around it :)

[Mandy]

very cool layout... lots of eye candy on the page and such a treasure. TFS

[Anne]

How wonderful, love the LO :) Didn't know you could do that by scanning negatives.
Anne x

[joy aitman]

What a beautiful layout.

[sue cook]

Love it!. A really beautiful layout. I love scrapping my vintage photos as well, and Webster's papers work really well with that theme.

[Carmen]

Just gorgeous, love all the little touches that make this a truly beautiful page.

[Boo]

Gorgeous, gorgeous, meaningful LO which will be a treasure for future generations to come. No more wondering "who are they?". :D