mary kate

Seamstress Ancestors

Seamstress Ancestors
mary kate, Jul 19, 2020
Description:
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).

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Blended Notes: The Committed Crafter
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Essential Krafts – Neutral: The Committed Crafter
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Philia Love – Fabric Pieces: The Committed Crafter (oval frame; bow)
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Life Recorded templates: The Nifty Pixel and Lynn Grieveon Designs
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Sewing Memories kit: Designed by Soco (thimble; charm; button card; sewing machine card)
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Hooked papers: Pink Reptile Designs (green sewing tape paper)
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A Room with a View Elements: Pink Reptile Designs (green string bow)
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Mixed Media Monthly, August 2019, Sew/Inseparable/Ties: Little Butterfly Wings, Lynne-Marie, Paula Kesselring, Rachel Jeffries (thread spools)
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Sew You Elements: Paula Kesselring (girls with sewing machine ephemera)
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Fonts: True North; True North Script; Mrs. Eaves
    • mcurtt
      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. :beat
      Jul 19, 2020
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    • Angela Toucan
      so beautiful. Such a precious photo and special jounrlaing documenting your ancestors.
      Jul 20, 2020
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    • cookingmylife
      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.
      Jul 20, 2020
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    • Lillyia
      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.
      Jul 20, 2020
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    • flowersgal
      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.
      Jul 20, 2020
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    • KittyY
      storytelling perfection!! I love how you recorded this
      Jul 20, 2020
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    • mary kate
      @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...
      Jul 21, 2020
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    • Lillyia
      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. :)
      Jul 21, 2020
    • mary kate
      @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!
      Jul 21, 2020
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    • Lillyia
      @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.
      Jul 23, 2020
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