The Family Record Conclusion...for now.

Hi there, great to have you here again. 

A few weeks ago I published the introduction to a year long project I have been working on. The Family Record. I combined my love and interest of genealogy and scrapbooking and created a massive project. Here are all the videos of the project including the final 2.

The Family Record, more files.

Hi folks.

Ready for another installment of Family Memory Files?
Here are the next two videos.

The Family Record Introduction

HI fellow crafters.

a couple years ago I started a project that brought together two passions: Genealogy and scrapbooking. Many scrapbookers have done this, and created some wonderful family trees and heritage scrapbook albums. I wanted to do some thing a little different and after doing Heidi Swapp's memory file class via on line I knew this was the direction I wanted to take.

Now many of the layouts I have already showcased on my blog which can be seen HERE.

Instead of doing photos of the memory files or Family record, I did YouTube videos of all of them. Here is the introduction and the first couple files.

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Correspondence The traveling mans brother

Greetings to all the bloggers out there.

This dashing young man is my maternal grandfather, Adriaan 

Back 2006 mother and I arranged for a large suitcase of family photos to be sent to us in Perth, Australia.

I was amazed at many of the picture mostly because they showed my mother parents younger than what I knew them as. It was like being introduced to total strangers. My grandparents were well in to their late 70's early 80's by the time I was born, so I never saw them as children or young adults. My grandfather would be in his mid thirties in the portrait.

So for this layout I wanted to combine the new Correspondence Collection with some of the previous Meg's Garden collections and some French Writing Ephemera. The Hot Air Balloons were a nice add to the photo and the feel of the layout. 

Family Album Speed freak and The one of all of us

HI there crafters!

I have been adding to my massive family album that I created and finished not to long ago. I will be doing a video of all the files soon so that you can all see what I have been doing. 

I found some wonderful pics of my older brother when he was a littl'in, They were standard prints but I love using those Kaisercraft polaroid frames, which I had a few left. I didn't want to make the layout too complicated, so I kept it simple with a few embellishments. 

This was a family shot taken back in 2001. My dad decided before he left to go live in the UK he would head down to Walpole, Western Australia to surprise my brother for his birthday, who was living down there with my mother at the time. Well the Lada 4x4 broke down halfway and the surprise was a bust as we had to get my mother and brother to come rescue us at Manjimup. For various reasons it wasn't the best of trips and the photo kind of captured that. By the time this photo was taken we were all very independent individuals and the idea of family unity was a very much over with.

That may seem like a sad story, but it is at least an honest one. I feel as a scrapbooker, it is unrealistic to expect there to always be happy moments to memorialise on the page.

Family Album: School days

This is an old photo of my father and his younger brother in their school uniforms. I did this layout mostly to keep busy and to add pages to my father's memory file as it was a little on the thin side. 

Family Album: Capture life's moments

Lately I have been playing with mixed media a little bit. This is one I am pretty happy with so far. I recall the moment well. It was June, we were down at Walpole where my mother and brother lived and it was COLD!

I used a lot of different elements but they all work well together. 

Another page for the family album finished.