How to Handle Heritage Photos

Ever wonder how to scrap your poor quality heritage photos?  You may want your children to know their ancestors and see the resemblance to them, but often those heritage photos are not the best quality.  So, today I am sharing some tips how to make those heritage photos into fabulous scrapbook pages.

1)  Start with special treatment for your photo!  Here I used Plaids Photo Transfer Medium and some canvas to give the photo some great texture and an ephemera like quality.  This is a great way to handle those scanned heritage photos and make them look authentic!  The instructions for how to use this product are on the back of the packaging and it was so easy.  Just be sure to allow your self 24 hours for the transfer medium to set and a few hours for the fabric to dry after removing the paper before finishing your page.
2)  Devote a whole page to the photo!  If you are an avid scrap booker, this may be hard to do, but you may only have one photo of your ancestor, so live it up and do a single page with a single photo!
3)  Use special papers, die cuts and embellishments!  This will also help you use that single photo on a single page!  I created this shamrock using Cricut Craftroom Software, and a single motif from Damask Decor.  I use The Robin's Nest Classic Glitter Card stock in Khaki for the shamrock and matted it on white.  To create the mat in the software, I had to use hearts, circle and a comma for the stem.   Then, I backed it with more of the Classic Glitter Card stock in gold.  This paper is so pretty and the gold flecks look embossed!  I cut the title with Cricut's Sophisticated Cartridge in The Robin's Nest Glitter Rope on Red Card stock, making sure to run the glitter rope down the cent of my letters.  I added a rubon from The Robin's Nest Family rubon set in the lower left hand corner, some ribbon and a journaling block also from The Robin's Nest.  I chose a shamrock because this ancestor was Irish and I thought it a great ideas to share around St. Patrick's Day!
The Robin's Nest is running a special on their Tear Drops this month:  20% off!  Find the tear drops HERE.  NO need for a coupon, you will see they are already marked down! 

Supply List
The Robin's Nest Red Glitter Rope on Red Card stock (title)
The Robin's Nest Khaki Glitter Card stock (shamrock)
The Robin's Nest Gold Classic Glitter Card stock (Background)
The Robin's Nest Family Tree Rubon
The Robin's Nest Red Journaling 
The Robin's Nest River Bend Tear Drops
The Robin's Nest Green Fleur Card Stock
Plaid Mod Podge Photo Transfer Medium
Websters Pages jewel
White Card stock
Red Card stock
Ribbon
Cricut Sophisticated Cartridge
Cricut Damask Decor Cartridge
Cricut Craft Room software
Stampin Up Die
Circle Cutter

Happy Valentine's Day

Just sharing a Valentine's Day card I made inspired by this week's Tuesday Trigger at Moxie Fab World:  I've  a Notion.  The pink glitter swirl paper is by The Robin's Nest, letters by Basic Grey and I added some of my sewing notions.  See Moxie's inspiration photo below.  

20 Years of Love

My husband and I will be celebrating our 20th anniversary this year, so I thought it called for a special page, made with special touches.  To get those special touches I used papers and embellishments from The Robin's Nest and Plaid's Modge Podge Photo Transfer Medium.

Be sure to start your photo transfer project a day before you want to scrap!  I used some cotton duck canvas I had in the house and copied a photo from our wedding in black and white. The directions on the package are so simple, it just needs 24 hours to dry!  Once I removed the paper from the original copy, I frayed the edges of the canvas by pulling some thread.

To make the page, I started with black card stock as a base.  For my heart, I started with two Silhouette files, the first one, is used for the placement of The Robin's Nest Tear Drops and Dew Drops.  I cut the file on some scrap paper and set it aside.  I then cut the Heart with the scalloped edges, and place it on a light box with the placement heart cut out behind it.  See the picture below.  Since the tear drops were bigger than the circles in the Silhouette file, I just used every other circle for placement.  I also added tear drops and dew drops to the scalloped edge of the heart.  The Robin's Nest is running a special on their Tear Drops this month:  20% off!  Find the tear drops HERE.  NO need for a coupon, you will see they are already marked down!  Be sure to count out your tear drops and dew drops ahead of time to make sure you have enough for a big project like this.  I love the 3 dimensional doily look I get with this heart!  It is so pretty!  Under the heart I cut a band of The Robin's Nest Glitter Viva France paper and colored it a bit with my Copic Markers so, the pink had some red to match the tear drops and dew drops.  This a great tip for using pretty paper in the stash that is not the perfect color:  just kick it up a notch with markers, ink or chalk!  Over that band of paper I glued an organza ribbon.  I created the flower by stamping on The Robin's Nest Shocking Pink Glitter Sorbet paper and then punched it out.  To pull it all together I high lighted it with the same red markers used on the Viva la France paper and used more tear drops in the center of the flower.

The small flower has a center made with the same Shocking Pink Glitter Sorbet paper, Copic Markers and Epiphany Crafts circle embellishment.  I used Copics along the edges of the petals as well.

Supply List
The Robin's Nest Viva La France Card stock
The Robin's Nest Shocking Pink Glitter Sorbet
The Robin's Nest Freedom Tear Drops
Plaid Mod Podge Photo Transfer Medium
The Robin's Nest Christmas Dew Drops
Canvas
White Card Stock
Silhouette Heart Flourish File
Silhouette Heart Nested
Stampin Up Stamps
Stampin Up Flower Punch
Epiphany Crafts Shape Studio Bubble Caps
Ribbon
Copic Markers
Anna Griffin Letters
Glue Dots
Liquid Glass
Flower embellishment
Michaels Bling Love

Three D Doily

Today I am sharing a 3 dimensional doily that I made for a scrapbook page.  Be sure to stop back on Saturday to see how I used it on the finished page.   For my heart, I started with two Silhouette files, the first one, is used for the placement of The Robin's Nest Tear Drops and Dew Drops.  I cut the file on some scrap paper and set it aside.  I then stretched the heart with the scalloped edges to fit the patterned heart.  And cut the heart with the scalloped edges, and place it on a light box with the placement heart cut out behind it.
All the Tear Drops on sale this month at The Robin's Nest for the month of February!  You can find them all HERE.  You don't need a coupon, you will see they are already marked down!

Supplies
The Robin's Nest Freedom Tear Drops
The Robin's Nest Christmas Dew Drops

Silhouette Heart Flourish File
Silhouette Heart Nested

TRN February Challenge

The February Challenge sketches are up at The Robin's Nest Blog:  Chattering Robin's.  Below are the sketches for a card and a page.  DT members aren't allowed to enter, but I thought I would share a page to inspire you.  Be sure to visit The Chattering Robin's blog for all of the details on entering HERE.  You will notice I turned the sketch to accommodate my photo card.

Card Sketch

 Page Sketch

Supplies Used:
The Robin's Nest Winter Glitter Snowflake Cardstock
The Robin's Nest Cindy Lou Dot Glitter Paper
The Robin's Nest Snow Angels Glitter Cardstock