I have been a little distracted over the past few weeks preparing a presentation for the Creative Memories Leadership Summit, an Ideas Extravaganza and the Aus/NZ Virtual Crop event - busy, busy, busy but I wouldn't have it any other way! I love what I do! Some of the ideas I can't share with you because the products used to create them have not yet been released....so in the meantime I thought I would share some of the sketches used in the Virtual Crop. If you use them to created scrapbook layouts I would love it if you would share your creations on my Facebook Page - while I appreciate all the lovely emails of thanks you send me for sharing, I would so appreciate seeing what you do with the sketches. These are the sketches I shared this weekend during the Virtual Crop - there are 4 sketches in this series and the fourth one is based on a combination of the design elements from the first 3. There is also a Multi-Photo and Single- Photo version of Sketch#4 This digital heritage layout was created using Sketch#3 and a new digital kit to be released on the 1st March - make sure you ask your Creative Memories Consultant about this one - it is gorgeous!! and this layout was based on Sketch #4 and also uses that gorgeous new digital kit coming your way soon!! Enjoy the sketches and don't forget t show me what you create with them!
Every heritage scrapbook album should have a family tree page. Here are a few examples to inspire your creations.
A family history report can be really time consuming and overwhelming. Here's how we did my 2nd graders report. It was a bit time consuming but the use of newspaper articles about ancestors was really effective.
Learn the importance of family stories and living memory - and how to preserve them - with these insights from Curt Witcher of the Allen County Public Library.
I am starting the daunting project of making a family tree scrapbook, so I am doing it digitally. I am using the program, Scrapbook Flair. Here is some of the things I have been working on. Click to Enlarge
Either you have used the Rootsweb Message Boards in the past or have never used them. Whichever is your case - this new year, this January, go to these wonderful message boards, any one of which could provide new information. First timers -- it is simple. Use the search box at the top, placing a
My first passion has always been taking pictures. I wanted to record every moment of my life! When I discovered genealogy, a new world of possibilities opened to me, because I could now document the life of the ones that came before me. Finally I discovered the limitless creative possibilities with Heritage Makers. Now I am able to merge my passions in what I call creative Genealogy. I like to show off my ancestors and my actual family through the pages and posters I create, and also I love writing my family history, complementing it with pictures and beautifying it with the amazing embellishments, papers and tools in the Studio 3.0 editor. Here is a few examples of my "creative genealogy": Our family genealogy tree with our wedding picture in the middle, our children at the base and our parents and grandparent's pictures. Here is a portrait genealogy tree I created armed with a lot of patience. I spent quite some time on this tree, copying and pasting a bunch of leaves to create the full tree effect, but I am pretty proud of it. Maybe I will change the trunk, but it gives you the idea. My husband is so blessed to have many pictures of his ancestors, so I have been able to create this 5 generation page, starting from my son to his great-great grandfather. Isn't it precious? This is the genealogy 4 generation cheat-sheet foldout I created first for my children, like the one I then perfected for my husband a couple weeks ago. These are the last pages of a Family faces book I created for my children so that they will know all their family, the ones in USA and the ones in Europe, the ones that preceded us and the ones that are still with us. Here I just have a composite of the Hall family pictures. can you imagine a 20x24 canvas like this for your own family pictures? How about a cool family game where each player will have to guess who's the family member in that picture, or answer the questions on the cards? Check the whole deck of cards here. Well, doesn't family history start from your own family? So here is our family!^_^ More projects in my mind are a calendar with family history pictures, a cookbook with the secret family recipes, a complete family game board with answers to find in a family book, and many more. Don't worry, I will share them with you as I create them. Have you been inspired yet? What is your idea of "Creative Genealogy"? Find more posts about creative genealogy here.
Learn how small family trees make a great addition to heritage scrapbook layouts.
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Elizabeth was the third daughter of Ellen and John Middlebrook, born in December 1851 in Millbridge Yorkshire. She was at least the third generation of Elizabeth Middlebrooks, being named after an Aunt, and a Great Aunt . Elizabeth was 11 when she along with her parents and siblings left England and made the long journey to New Zealand aboard the Shalimar, arriving in December 1862. Just 6 years later in 1868 she married George Douglas Hardy, and soon after they made their home in Duke Street ( later called Karaka Street), the same street her family had lived in since soon after her fathers death in 1866. Elizabeth was to give birth to at least 11 children, however tragically 5 of them died as infants or young children. In addition to her own 6 remaining children she also bought up her Grandson Frank Leslie ( Son of daughter Ellen Hardy) as her own child. By the late 1870s her husband George became a warder (and later chief attendant) at the Whau Lunatic Asylum. This may have prompted the family to move first to Bellwood Mt Eden and later to New Lynn and finally to Bollard Street Avondale where she lived for over 20 years .In later life George ( and probably Elizabeth) became members of the Seventh Day Adventist Church., her funeral was held at the Blockhouse Bay Seventh day Adventist Church after her death on March 8th 1943 at the grand age of 93.
After writing my article, Scrapbook a Family Tree, I realized that I wanted to sit down with my cousin and ask her a few more questions about what she learned while creating the family tree. I thought asking her these questions could shed light on what you can learn and experience through scrapbooking your family history. Here are a few of the questions I asked her to learn more about her experience with this project.
Discover fresh, modern products and page ideas for scrapbooking your family's heritage and history.
Create a timeline using photos for your heritage scrapbook page.
The Family Historian has a gap in the bookshelf that has been awaiting this new book for many years. It provides the first ever detailed guide to the alternative ways to lay out and draw up a genealogical chart, following on to the production of a finished document for display on the wall or in […]
Well it’s the end of the year and I did it, I managed to get my 1st copy of the Jordan book off to be printed. After many years of researching my family tree, I wanted to share it in a way th…
I am absolutely in LOVE with all the beautiful gallery wall displays. But let's face it.... I have small hallways and limited wall space, so clustering frames together would make me claustrophobic. But I have had this idea for awhile to frame in, with molding, a piece of the wall and then collage picture frames. Making it appear better balanced in my small space. I first framed out my wall space. I then painted the inside a stark white. I knew this would make everything pop. I started with stripes, but quickly decided that it was still too much for me. I needed to keep it clean and simple for this space. So repainted the wall back to the stark white. Once I had it framed in and painted, I also painted the molding black. (Note to self....make the molding frame first, paint it, and then pin nail it on....That would have saved me some taping and retouching. ) Then I dug out my frame bin and started collecting all the frames I wanted to use for the wall! I took them outside to spray paint them black and then started to piece each frame together on the wall. More frames dug out and painted...... And VOILA! Picture Perfect Family Tree Wall. I love how slim to the wall it all is. My hallways are narrow and it doesn't make me feel confined! Now to collect which pictures I want up on the wall. I am doing several with all kinds of trees, black n' white. And the rest with pictures of our family! Do you LOVE it as much as I do?? I can't stop looking at it! XOXO, BON Stop by soon for an updated wall with the pictures!
Cześć i czołem :) Narreszcie grudzień, a to oznacza nowe inspiracje PLowe razem z Gossamer Blue. Kity z tego miesiąca są po prostu wspaniałe - 100% tego co lubię najbardziej. Neutralne jasne kolory, brązy i beże wszystko to świetnie wpasuje się w klimaty świąteczne, ale także i późno jesienne. Te kity były tak świetne, że dzięki nim zrobiłam bez problemu cztery tygodnie w ciągu jednego posiedzenia, a to już coś! Do tej rozkładówki użyłam tylko głównego zestawu Life Pages :) materials: WRMK page protectors; December Life Pages kit bu Gossamer Blue Hello! At last it's December, and that means a new portion of pocket inspirations I prepared for you with the newest Gossamer Blue kits, which are filled with what I love the most for this season. Neutral colours, browns, beiges and woodgrain are just perfect for around holiday memories but also the late fall ones. These kit's are so good that I made four weeks with them in one sitting and that's something! For this spread I used only a Life Pages kit :) lewa strona: / left side: prawa strona: / right side: detale: / details:
A classic and timeless combination.
For the last few days I have been busy creating a vintage scrapbook with the box of old photographs I found while clearing out a cupboard. Here are the first few layouts. I should give credit to the Graphics Fairy for many of the elements I used came from her.
Here's a post right from My Digital Studio. This is an awesome project to undertake and with SU! digital products and print services on sale, you can certainly afford to make this wonderful gift for your family to cherish. Family History Photobook Every Tuesday morning I eagerly logon to MyDigitalStudio.net to see the new downloads for the week. I’m always excited, but on the morning of January 22, I was especially giddy. There it was—the download I’d hoped and waited for since we launched MDS—Family History Photobook Template (item 132918). I know, I know—only old people care about family history, but that’s the point! I wanted a way to make family history fun, exciting, even enticing to my children and grandchildren, and this template was absolutely the answer. For almost 60 years I’ve been storing and moving and lifting and—did I say storing?—boxes and boxes of personal histories, pedigrees, family group sheets, photos, documents, and research. I know that none of my children were thrilled with the idea of receiving all of it someday. And really, the problem is, how can I give it all to just one child? I now have a solution that gives all of it to each of them, and I love the final result. Family history junkies will love the clean lines and classic design of the “pedigree chart” spread. And the more visual personality can have the same experience with the “our family tree” spread. Same ancestors, different format. While I changed very little of the original template, each spread is really adaptable to fit a variety of individual family situations. For example, on the “family record” page there were originally eight photo boxes and I only needed seven. So I deleted one and moved its companion to the center. Each of my children will receive a copy of the photobook, beautifully designed and organized, rather than boxes and boxes of stuff to store for the next 60 years. And bonus! Photobooks are 25% off through June 15! No excuse to not let my siblings in on this as well—after all, it’s their history, too. I even found a solution to the hundreds of photos, documents, and histories that couldn’t all fit in the photobook. My digitized four generations of photos and histories fits neatly on a CD that I placed in a matching envelope at the back of the book. There isn’t a traditional Designer Series Paper counterpart for this template so I printed my own from MDS! The Family History Photobook Template ) comes with five, beautiful Designer Series Paper patterns. Hint: I used a standard, paper CD envelope as the pattern for my envelopes. Whether you’re preserving several generations of your family history or documenting your immediate family history, I know you’ll love this template. You will definitely want to get this download while it’s on sale! Now that my big project is done I think I’ll experiment a bit with this download. Maybe flip flop the brackets and start with my children? What do you think? Karen Hauley, Stampin’ Up! Business Development Specialist Digital downloads on sale (US/CAN/AU/NZ) Print products* on sale (US/CAN) (*Available in the United States and Canada only.)
