Roots Scrapbooking Layout

Hello friends! I have a vintage scrapbooking layout to share with you today. It's a continuation of a Vintage Frame project I posted earlier this week featuring my grandfather as a baby. My Mom and I have been learning a lot about the family history on her side and I have found and scanned a bunch of old photos.

My great grandparents hand only one child and started out from very humble beginnings on the countryside. They worked hard and my grandfather was probably the first one in both extended families to have a higher education. This is the oldest photo of the three of them together that I could find. All dressed up and my grandfather's outfit is so cute. The photo frame opens up and there is journaling on the inside. The background paper comes from Tim Holtz Wallflower paper stash and fit the topic well, with the tree with roots, postal elements bird and numbers. 

In their first home, which I recently visited, there were these rough wooden walls and I wanted to try to replicate that on the layout. Die cut Tim's Planks from watercolor paper. I die cut more of one of the sizes on the die.

Smear Pumice Stone and Frayed Burlap on a non-stick craft sheet. Mist with water and press the planks into the ink. Emboss in the 3-D Lumber folder, before the paper dries. The embossing becomes deeper and more pronounced when the paper is wet.

When dry, ink the edges.

I glued them to the background cardstock to make it look like a wall.

My great grandfather started out by working as a farmhand, and later became foreman for various farms. I stamped farm animals from Tim's On The Farm set and colored them with Prismacolor pencils. I also stamped some sentiments and clocks.

To continue with the photo theme, I stamped a negative film strip twice on Clearly For Art Modeling Film and colored it at the back with alcohol inks. It is important to color at the back, otherwise the alcohol ink will make the black ink bleed.

It was glued to the page on top of an old calendar page. The frame comes from the Halloween Layers and Baseboard set and was sanded and inked.

The title is 'roots' and was stamped with Tall Text alphabet stamps.

I used the SSS Outline Clustered Leaves die to die cut one green and one patterned paper leafy branch. The lace piece was die cut with Tim's Crochet set.

I could only find one single horse stamp in my stash, and the lady looks too wealthy and isn't from the right era, but it had to do anyway.

The farm animals walking along the bottom of the layout.

I thought this Quote Token fit well on the page. 

Thank you so much for taking the time to visit my blog today! Have a wonderful weekend!

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

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