Third Page using Crafty Secrets

Great news for a Monday. 

I won the $50 gift certificate from Crafty Secrets. Totally random drawing, but I am going to have a lot of fun playing with a new stash of digital products. I am going to post this last page I did with Botanical Photo Frames.

Look for more layouts with Crafty Secrets products in the near future.

Here's how these digital products started out.

Original Size is 8 1/2 x 11.
There was some enlarging, some copying, some pasting and a lot of erasing.

Another page!

Can you tell I am obsessed with this set from Crafty Secrets?
 Here is a page I made from the oval photo frame set. 

I am amazed by the size of the families these women had.

Besides these five daughters,

 Sarah Lawrence Findley had three sons. 

There was a lot of duplicating, "erasing", cutting and resizing on this one.

I think it was worth it.

oval photo frames are from the Viva Libris Collection from ViVa Artistry.

A new page in the Heritage Album

Started working through the Family Album I created in paper 15 years ago and updating it digitally.

These are my great, great grandparents, William & Sarah Findley.

When I saw this photo frame on Crafty Secrets, I knew it would be perfect for our vintage portraits. As a child I remember looking at these pictures in a very old and fragile thick paged album. This page has that feel. Here's the link to take you to this digital file: digital vintage photo frame. The frame comes with four picture slots. One file has ovals and the other the rounded top you see here.

I enlarged this one to a 12x12 and "erased" the two lower pictures, added the names, obituaries and frames. After adding back the shading on the side, I realized that the center column of botanicals fit back in also.

Thanks Crafty Secrets, this has inspired & motivated me to work on my heritage album project.