This is a companion page to my "Lumberman Ancestors" LO, because I wanted to give my female ancestors their due. For continuity (and because I love the template!), I've used the same template (by The Nifty Pixel and Lynn Grieveson Designs).
I love how you found sewing ephemera and elements for your great-grandmothers' stories. Interesting that they were both seamstresses. This will be a fabulous facing page to the lumberjack layout.
Wonderful details which I'm sure your family will appreciate. The use of the template allow such great space for this as well as giving you an area to add the ephemera for both professions.
Thank you for this page. It is an inspiration to me because our family has a tradition of seamstress too. Another line is of musicians. I am saving your pages for inspiration. I didn't know how to scrap that bit of family history and what I want is exactly what you've done. Your pages are perfect. I love all of it. The elements support the topic and add interest. Your journaling is informative and detailed just enough to tell the story. Great work.
I love how you are recording your history and traditions. Great vintage photo here and all the sewing elements really carry out the theme. Terrific layout! P.S. I also loved the lumberman layout too and appreciate your consistency of design in these two.
@Lillyia Looking forward to what you come up with for your own family tradition of seamstresses (and also musicians). I love family history scrapping, am always looking for new ideas...
I too love family history scrapping, but haven't done much because I find it difficult. I usually get frustrated and give up. I struggle to make my pages look vintage, thinking that I have to use dark colors, grunge and fading. Your pages are clean and modern - which I like, while still taking the viewer back to the days of old. That's a lesson for me.
@Lillyia I'm pro-colour (and not just faded tan and beige and sepia) when it comes to family history pages. We've inherited, if we're lucky, some old black-and-white photographs that have turned sepia-toned due to the passage to time, due to the deterioration of the photographs.
But our ancestors did not inhabit a sepia-toned world: they lived their lives in full colour!
@mary kate that is a great observation! You are right. So thank you; you have definitely freed me from the drab color mentality that has kept me from enjoying my vintage photos scrapbook pages.
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