On Monday I signed up for Anna’s course, The Art of Heritage. The challenge of creating a cohesive book without a template using my favorite products appeals to me. I have a great deal of information about my husband’s family as well as my own from genealogy books, but I don’t have a lot of old family photos. However rather than cover that history, I thought that I might create a book about my fifty years of history with the man I married on September 7, 1968. I could culminate the project with photos from the anniversary trip we’ve planned as a celebration.
We definitely have a history together. One day, I went out hunting with Bill and his college friend. They gave me a gun to carry. As we were eating lunch this afternoon, I asked Bill why he gave me the gun.
This is the photo that our friend captured with an old Instamatic. I worked on it in Lightroom, exported it to Photoshop CC and added an adjustment layer on overlay blend mode at 70%. I placed it above solid paper 1 from ArtPlay Palette Lateritious.
To give it an artsy look, I clipped it to overlay 3 from FotoBlendz Overlays No. 12.
Note: I enlarged the 3.5 x 3.5 photo about 20% and reduced the size of the overlay to accommodate the photo.
Below the photo and overlay, I placed the layers of transfer 3 from Artsy Transfers Lateritious. I used only six of the layers to support my photo.
Note: Artsy Transfers are one of my favorite products by Anna. I am seriously considering using them throughout this book.
I wrote my journaling, added a yellow button, a thread from UrbanThreadz No. 16 and a title.
When I asked Bill why he gave me that gun to carry. He responded, “to keep you feeling like you were with us. Good grief, that was 50 years ago.”
“Not quite,” I replied.
Marie
Love your pages!
It is our 50th this year too and we are planning a get away…Happy Anniversary on yours!
Linda
Thank you! Happy Anniversary Marie!!
Ellen
Great story…mmm was it loaded? I always wonder how to get more depth in my layouts. May be that’s the answer to use more artsy Transfers underneath the blended photo. I’ll try that one out. Thanks.
Linda
Yes, I imagine it was but Bill said he doesn’t remember 50 some years ago. I love Anna’s transfers and hope this works. I’ll be experimenting with some other story layouts to test the idea. I like that it is simple.