Vera Enid 1925

The January Papermaze was a couple of weeks ago now, but was a good opportunity to catch up with creative friends. Vanessa designed the crop kit using papers from Crate Paper's Open Book collection. Another opportunity for me to scrap for my Holder family heritage album.

This is Vera Enid Kiff, age 3 in 1925. She emigrated to Canada a year after this photo was taken with parents Florence (my great aunt) and Charles.

The kit contained:
Patterned papers - Crate Paper - Open Book (Sweet Story, 3 x 5, Clippings)
Cardstock - Bazzill - Cinnabar
Prima flowers
Buttons
Chipboard Chevrons (which I covered with scraps of patterned paper and inked)
Twine
Dew drops
Lace
Filmstrip ribbon - Tim Holtz

I added letters cut from cardstock with Sizzlets alphabet die
Letter and number stickers from Prima
DMC thread for the buttons.

Here is Vanessa's lovely original layout:

Thanks for looking
Lynn x

Marjorie

Time for another heritage layout.

I am still working through the lovely old photos I acquired recently. This one is Marjorie Phyllis Holder, she was one of my Grandfather's thirteen siblings, so she was my great Aunt.

Marjorie was born in Bromley in 1908 to Frederick Holder and Emma Jane Florence (Williams).

Marjorie married Gordon Stebbing in 1928.

I used:

Basic Grey Eva Collection papers, Element Stickers, Alphabet Stickers and chipboard shapes

Basic Grey swirl stamps

Memory Box die for the olive branches

A mix of roses and other flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts

Dovecraft Metal Butterfly with added gems 

Flat-backed pearls

Prima Stamp

Memento and Distress Inks

I made another layout with a photo of Marjorie's sister Rose, but this is under wraps for the next Scrapology challenge!

Thanks for looking

Lynn 

Peggy

'Peggy' is the title of this layout created for my family heritage album with one of my newly acquired old photos. Since finding the adorable photo of this little girl and discovering her name I was able to complete more of my family tree. The layout is my Design Team page for the March Scrapology challenge.

The journalling has been written for future generations and reads:

"Margaret E. Holder known as Peggy (born 1919) was the youngest daughter of my Great Uncle Walter Frederick Holder, known as Chum or Chummy (b1886) and his wife Ethel Rosina (nee Fuller, 1888 - 1955) married in 1910. All lived in the Bromley area. Peggy's older sister was called Winifred J. Holder known as Winnie (born 1913, married name Taylor).
Lynn (2014)"

This month we are scraplifting our own team member Sandra Dry with this lovely layout you may recognise from the Scrapbook magazine a few issues ago. As she was working to a budget we thought we would look at using our existing stash rather than using new papers.

My papers are Kasercraft Enchanted Garden which I have had for a while and not wanted to cut into, I was waiting for that special photograph! The butterflies are cut from a glittered sheet. I used some Prima pearl swirls, Maya Road ribbon roses, satin ribbon, antique lace and a Marianne die for the frame around the journalling.

Lots of tearing, distressing and inking went into my page too.

 Here is the sketch I drew for the challenge:

Please pop over to the Scrapology blog and find out more about the challenge and see what the others made for this challenge.

Thanks for looking
Lynn x

Edna Ellaline Bryan Holder 1911

Edna Ellaline Bryan Holder is my great aunt on my maternal grandfather's side. Edna and my grandfather were siblings, there were fourteen children in their family. I have a wonderful photo of them all at a wedding in 1911, but decided it would be good to find out a bit about each of them and scrap them separately. My cousin Nina is Edna's granddaughter and she told me a little about Edna's name. 

"'Bryan' was the surname of the lady who delivered her and my Mum thinks 'Ellaline' was possibly after a popular actress of the time, Ellaline Terriss."

I looked her up and Ellaline Terriss was an English actress and singer, best known for her performances in Edwardian musical comedies.

 

 

This photo shows Edna in 1960.
The strange thing is Edna was my grandfather, Ernest Holder's sister, and she married Alfred Humm who was my grandmother, Winifred Humm's brother - makes creating the on-line family tree very difficult! 

My layout was created from the crop kit for Papermaze's August crop, and was designed by Lou Collins. The kit contained:
The paper is Crate Paper, The Pier Collection - Frozen Treats.
Bazzill cardstock in Brown, Twig and Olive. Red Co'ordinations cardstock. White and cream lace and Prima roses.

In the crop we also used: Martha Stewart Butterfly punch, several dies, Tim Holtz Tissue Tape, Glimmer Mist, a Technique Tuesday and a Kaisercraft stamp & lemon Liquid Pearls. 

I added a title with Making Memories mini shimmer alpha stickers, acetate postmark and Distress inks.

Thank you for looking at a little of my family history.
Lynn x

Flight Lieutenant Kenneth Banks

This is my version of Anita's class page from the Cardinal Colours weekend crop back in March. I was lucky enough to make at a recent crop as I had been too busy at the weekend. The photo is my great uncle Flight Lieutenant Kenneth James Banks. The title using one of the labels on the papers has been changed to bear the motto of his Squadron 'Danger is our Opportunity'.

Kenneth was 21 when he died on 29th May 1945, having survived the WWII as a pilot. He crashed his Spitfire into the stained glass window of a church in Yorkshire. The more detailed journalling is written on the tag which is hidden under the photo which acts as a pocket.

The papers are Bo Bunny's Serenade collection. I used some tiny hole-less beads on the poppy centres and some Swirlydoo butterflies, glittered up with Stickles.

Thanks for another great class Anita, and here is her super original layout.


thanks for looking.
Lynn x

Lacock Village

Following on from yesterday's blog post about Lacock Abbey, here are some photos taken in the Village. Shame it was such a wet day, but it is a fascinating place.

Thanks for looking. x

Lacock Abbey

While in Gloucestershire last month, staying with Alan's cousin we visited Lacock Village and the Abbey, which is owned by The National Trust.

Lacock is set in rural Wiltshire, the village is famous for its historic streets and buildings and more recently as a TV and film location. Harry Potter, Moll Flanders and many other productions were filmed here.

The Abbey, has it's own woodland grounds, it is a country house of various styles, built upon the foundations of a former nunnery. We visited the medieval rooms and the cloister court. We didn't have time to look at the museum as well, but it would be good to return another time visit that part of the experience as well. (The museum celebrates the achievements of former Lacock resident, William Henry Fox Talbot, famous for his contributions to the invention of photography.)

Here are some pictures taken at the Abbey - This blog entry is Photo heavy - you have been warned!!!

Thanks for looking, will be back with some photos of the Village.

Lynn x

Sapperton Tunnel

Beryl & Alan at Coates Portal

While in Gloucester last week we visited both ends of the Sapperton Tunnel. In the middle of the Thames & Severn Canal, the tunnel was first used over 200 years ago (1789).  At the time it was the state of the art in canal technology, being then at 2·17 miles,the longest tunnel ever dug in England.  It has no towpath; narrow boats were propelled through the tunnel by legging.

Coates Portal

It took five years to dig (mostly by hand though gunpowder was also used through the rocky sections) which was only a year longer than originally intended, and was much faster than most contemporary tunnels. It was difficult and dangerous work and there were many fatalities, though it does not appear to be recorded as to exactly how many.

The disused canal by the Coates Portal

The tunnel's completion allowed the passage of boats through to Cirencester laden with cheap coal from the mines of the north and west, which had hitherto been transported expensively by road. By the 18th November 1789, the whole length of the Thames & Severn was open, allowing the relatively quick passage of boats with their varying cargoes between the west of England and London, as well as to the many towns and villages in between. Trade flourished, and despite problems with the construction and water supply, the canal and Sapperton Tunnel remained in use until the early 1900s.

We walked along the towpath to the Daneway Portal 

On top of the Daneway Portal

The Coates Portal itself, rebuilt in 1976/7, is also worthy of a close look, as is the newly refurbished Daneway Portal , two miles away. Also not too far away is the Source of the Thames, where in wet weather, the water almost fountains up out of the ground.

It was a beautiful autumn day and we had a good walk around the area surrounding both portals, taking pictures, and ended up in the Daneway Inn!

Alan lost his Beer!

Blackbury Camp

While in Devon, Frances took us to Blackbury Camp, English Heritage. An Iron Age hill fort with impressive ramparts.

A single bank and ditch forming a rough D-shaped enclosure.

This fort was probably occupied between the 1st and 2nd Century BC by a cattle farming community.

It is now surrounded by woodland.

We wandered around the fort, which would have been much higher at the time it was in use. There are many beautiful trees and flint stones.

 

A beautiful spot to be on this lovely sunny summer day. Not sure I fancy living there surrounded by cows!

Then on to Gittisham... (next post).