While I have been away I have been lucky to met some wonderful teachers while taking classes and learning lots and lots of techniques and ideas which I am now trying to put into practice and making some wonderful pages.
The page below is my very first page that I have done in a very long long time and is totally different to what I have done in the past. I started my Scrapbooking creating books showcasing my children's life, then I moved into making cards and art pieces and now am turning to following great teachers like Di Garland and Tina Oilett.
This page has a very errors but hopefully I will learn from my mistakes and you all will be able to take some inspiration and learning from this post.
The page is my Great Grandmother - Gemima. She lived in England and raised 8 children, most of the time she did it by herself as her husband was a Captain on a ship which traveled around Europe. Watch out for my next page which will be dedicated to Thomas the Captain.
My feel that the stencil I did on the background was not big enough and therefore has not done what I wanted - to pop the picture out.
Also I made some beautiful flowers out of the paper but only put them through the flowers on the bottom left instead of all through the flowers on the left and right.
Other than that - I am really pleased with the layout - it was my first big layout I have done like this.
Glenda, I think your layout is just lovely as it is! What a fabulous way to honor your Great Grandmother. This is a vintage delight with those flowers, the garden gate, embellishments, and stencil work. Really beautiful! Hugs!
ReplyDelete