Generations of Love Blog Hop

This is a blog hop featuring projects inspired by our family tree and our Grandparents in honor of National Grandparents Day.

National Grandparents Day is Sunday, September 9th.

This is a weekend hop, but you have until Monday at midnight to finish hopping.

Lorby's World is the blog to start at and she is offering a special prize to one lucky person. All you have to do is hop through all the participants in the blog hop and leave a comment on each of the their blogs. Lorby's World will pick a winner to be announced on Wednesday, September 12th.

Welcome! You should have come from Cindy's Blog

For today's hop I created a couple of digital layouts.  It has been a while since I played with digital.  I used Artisan formerly Creative Memories software, therefore the kit I used was Creative Memories Gratitude.  I also used blueprints to start with I did change them up and copied elements to both layouts for continuity.  

The first one is my great grandmother, Bertha Lee Hooper.  She lived to be 104.  She got to meet my son before she passed, her second great!  The first photo has my grandmother as a child.  The second photo has two of my great grandmothers.  The third is my great grandfather and great grandmother's celebrating someone's 84th.  

This layout is is my mother's mother.  She passed away before I was born so I never knew her.  The top left photo is my grandparent's wedding day.  The bottom left has my mother as a child with all her brothers. I feel lucky to have these photos.  I have scanned them all for my family to share.

Thank you for joining us today and please continue on to
Shannon's Blog

FULL LINE UP HERE:

Jearise Havenga from Lorby's World of Crafting

Kim Lamos Pink Zebra Paper Creations

Sandy Lopez Suarez Simply Crafty Creations by Sandy S.

Connie Wallenbrock  from Connie Can Crop

Cindy Gress Messer from In Love with PAPER!

Alicia O'Bryant from Golden Goddess Designs

Shannon Hinders from ShannonHDesigns

Amanda Rhodes from My Thoughts & Scraps

Sue Nagata from foleysfriend

Miranda Enclade from Crafting with Miranda

Thanks again for stopping by!

Alicia

Quick Quotes July Club Q Military Baseball layout

Good morning Quick Quotes readers!  Alicia with you today with some Club Q inspiration.  The last time I played with Club Q I kept all the product in each package with the pieces for that project. This time for something different I opened up every piece and mixed them all up.   

I had been playing with some pictures of my grandfather and decided on these baseball photos.  You can't get more patriotic than Army baseball!  Unfortunately, my grandfather has passed and I really don't know much of his story.  He was career Army, enlisting in 1943 and as far as I can tell leaving in 1968.  His Army photographs cover a wide range of places and years.

Quick Quotes product used:

 Quick Quotes July Club Q

Bloody Mary PowderPuff Chalking Ink

Blue Moon Powder Puff Chalking Ink

Other Ingredients: 

Creative Memories sticker letters

Tim Holtz label die

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Alicia

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:

http://www.unrulypaperarts.com/2015/07/july-2015-reader-art-quest.html until 7/31

winner!

http://kcclayoutchallenges.blogspot.com/2015/07/lm-250-use-3-different-patterned-papers.html until 7/31x

http://www.conniecancrop.blogspot.com/2015/07/monthly-challenge-36-stars-and-stripes.html until 7/31x

Sketch N Scrap Vintage Photo layout

Good morning!  Today is Sketch N Scrap's Twistback Thursday sketch.  The sketch is originally from October of 2013.  The twist this month is to use vintage/old photos and scrap your history.  I went way back and found some very old pictures.  I don't actually own the originals but I scanned them from a family member.  My mother has researched and built our family tree on Ancestry.com so we know who these relatives are and some of their story.  I am so grateful to know this history.

You can find the sketch at Sketch N Scrap and enter to the challenge.

Details

Ingredients:

Karen Foster Antique lace paper

Quick Quotes Gypsy Road Papers

Quick Quotes chipboard buckle

Tattered Angels mist

Quick Quotes Midnight Obession

Creative Memories sticker letters

Stampin Up tag punch

Tim Holtz Floral Garden die

brads,  lace

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:

http://inspirationdestinationchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2015/07/AG-no-41.html until 7/14x

http://whimsyinspires.blogspot.com/2015/06/challenge-84-use-ribbon-lace-or-twine.html until 7/13x

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Alicia