Alf

I had a good day at the Papermaze Crop today and created this layout, designed by Vanessa. It shows by Great Uncle Alf (Alfted William Humm).

The Crop kit contained:
Kraft Bazzill
49 and Market - Ticket paper
49 and MArket Stripe paper
Stamperia Coffee and Chocolate Labels
Simple Stories - The Simple Life - Tags
49 and MArket - blue paper
49 and MArket - Nature Study - Coloured Foundations #1
2 49 and Market tickets
Paper flower
blue dew drop
12" twine
washi tape

The shared equipment included:
Distress Ink
Mask
Cream Acrylic Paint

Sizzix die

From my stash:
Alphabet stickers

From my Ancestry research and talking to family:

Alfred William Humm
Known as 'Alf'

Born 8th February 1902 in Wandsworth, London to Henry William Humm and Susan Dunn. Alf was one of six children.

Alf married Edna Ellaline Bryan Holder on 26th May 1928.

They had two daughters Joyce and Janet.

Alf died in May 1994 in Eastbourne, Sussex

The complication in our family tree is that Edna's brother Ernest married Alf's sister Winifred (my grandparents)."

Thanks for looking.
Lynn x

Julia

This heritage layout is one for my father's album, Julia is a distant relative but I had four photos of her which have been shared with me via Ancestry.

I made this for the FTLOPP Cake Day (6th Birthday) challenge #3 Red Velvet Cake. The options were to use a hidden element and some red.

For this layout I used four photos of Julia Chancellor, One photo shows when you look at the page, but there are three hidden behind the first when you open out the accordian. There is also all the information I have gleaned about Julia's life:

Julia Chancellor, Wife of 2^nd Great Grand Uncle
Born in Chelsea in 1836 and baptised on 19^th October at St. Luke’s Church
Julia was the 10^th of 12 children born to John Chancellor (1794 -1876) and
Rebecca Mary Wilmott (1797 – 1869)
Julia married Michael Hinde (1812 – 1872) on 19^th December 1866 at St. Mary’s Newington
Julia and Michael had 3 children, Frederick Michael (1869 – 1927), Albert Edward (1870 -1951) and Julia Gertrude (1871 – 1913)
Widowed in 1872 when she was 35.
Julia married Arthur Maddison (1833 – 1887), on 20^th August 1874 at St. Andrew’s Church, Lambeth. Julia and Arthur had 3 sons, Arthur Algernon (1875 – 1948), Harold Chancellor (1877 – 1925) and Cecil Willmott (1880 – 1858)
Julia was widowed again in 1887 when she was 50.
Several of her children emigrated to Canada.
Julia died in 15^th October 1925 in Huntingdon

For this layout I used three Basic Grey collections (papers and stickes) - Bittersweet, Eskimo Kisses and Wassail.
Gems and plearls
metal lock and paper clip embellishment
DMC thread and chain stitches
Doily
Circular journalling stamp
Scalloped Circle Punch

Thanks for looking
Lynn x

Uncle Peter

This is my layout made at the October 2019 Papermaze Crop - I have only just added the final details! I'm having a New Year effort at finishing off and /or blogging some of the things I have made in recent months. This layout was designed by Vanessa.

I used this recently acquired photo of my Uncle Peter when he was a young man. This lovely masculine design was ideal to create a tribute to this lovely man who died a few weeks short of his 90th birthday in 2018.

The papers are from Fabscraps Fantasy Flight and Simple Stories Autumn Splendor. The kit contained corrugated kraft card, ric-rac, and a paper flower.  A Tim Holtz Layering Stencil, Forest Moss Distress Stain and Vintage Photo Distress Ink were available to use at the crop. I added Stickles to the butterfly wings and journalling to a spare piece of patterned paper. I fussy cut the bee from the spare paper too.

For my title I used the revers side of some of the scrap paper and the Tim Holtz Sizzix Bigz XL alphabet die - Wonderland. I also used some tiny letter stickers from my stash.

Peter Charles Holder 1928 - 2018

Thanks for looking
Lynn x

We Will Remember Them - 1918 - 2018

I thought I would have a go as the CS Get Crafty October sketch challenge. We are approaching November 11th, so I decided to use the centenary of the end of World War I and some of my ancestors who fought in the war as my theme for the layout. 

Here is the sketch:

I used a mix of different papers, including the remains of a sheet of paper from the Mintay Farmlife collection left over from the layout I made using a C&S Get Crafty kit. This is where I cut, gutted and inked the six frames from.

I printed out photos for six ancestors from my mother's family. I used papers from several older Kaisercraft collections:
Timeless Collection - Botanical
Be-You-Tiful collection - Glamorous
In The Attic collection - Closet
Base Coat collection - 
Remember Me collection - Sticker sheet

My title was cut with a Crafter's Companion alphabet and was layered up with scraps of the papers used for the rest of the page. 

Thanks for looking
Lynn x

Who Do You Think You Are?

I made this layout using the Papermaze Crop Kit for April, a crop I was unable to attend, but happily I caught up with the kit the following month.

The family photo was a recent find and we knew it to be the sister of my great grandmother Susan Dunn. On the reverse of the photo it said Aunty Dot and Uncle Albert Allemandy, St Michaels Church, Wandsworth Common, Saturday 17th March 1951. However we had some difficulty finding out who Susan's sisters were, and eventually tracked them down through Ancestry. We couldn't find a Dot or Dorothy - it turned out that the brides real name was Estella! Hence the title of the layout 'Who Do You Think You Are?'

The papers used for this page designed by Vanessa, are from the Bo Bunny - Aryia's Garden collection. I added old letters stickers for my layout by Jillybean Soup.

Thanks for looking
Lynn x