Did your great grandparents fall in love at first sight? Do you have a copy of your great grandmother's marriage certificate or treasured photos of your extended family, spread over several generations?
Preserve your ancestral memories through scrapbooking, using photos, documents, and family stories. These remarkable volumes honour the past on pages that evoke appropriate time and place using colours, memorabilia, craft techniques and journaling.
In 'Scrapbooking Your Family History', Laura Best gives advice on researching your heritage and ideas for creating memory albums that pay tribute to that heritage.
There are lists of supplies and materials that you'll need in addition to those used in traditional scrapbooking; tips on collecting and organising archival documents, photos and memorabilia to keep you on track; and easily learned techniques for giving contemporary design elements like stickers an aged look. You'll also learn how to properly handle - and even do without - photos. Finally, certain basic layout guidelines are provided to ensure strong, appealing pages that will show off your heritage themes to their best advantage.
A wealth of original page designs are shown in full colour, and images common to different time periods. A variety of ideas showcase family trees, pedigree charts, holiday gatherings, reunions, and special celebrations - everything that makes up a family history! You'll also discover how to create a look that enhances the era a photo was taken in, or compliments its subject.
Future generations will cherish your heritage scrapbooks for years to come.
Contents:
Preface
General Instructions
- Supplies
- Collecting
- Organizing
- Techniques
- Photographs
- Storage
- Scrapbook Page Techniques
- Layout
Themes
- Chronological
- Fashion
- Emigration
- Seasons
- Holidays
- Celebrated Events
- Folklore and Traditions
- Family Lessons
- Clubs, Entertainment and Hobbies
- Household Duties
- Leisure Chores
- Occupations
- Homes
- Character Traits
- Current Events
Index
