My Artful Gathering Book Pages...So far!!

Hello Dear Friends!!

Hope all of you are enjoying your

summer dispite the very hot temps

and drought, and fires...geez it's

been quite a summer huh??

What have I been up to you may ask??

Well I joined The Artfull Gathering

online classes for 6 weeks and I

joined Nancy Maxwell's class.

We are to construct a book

with 5x7 canvas boards and

also a keepsake box to decorate

that will hold the book we are making.

I decided to make my book into

a Heritage book with pictures

of my Grt. grandparents from

Germany, Scotland and Ireland.

I am designing a two page spread

for each family.

The first page is of my Grt. Grand

mother Johanna circa 1881. The original

picture was both her Johanna and Charles

in the same picture with Johanna's right

arm leaning on Charles' left shoulder.

I copied them onto matte photo

paper, used some pencil crayons

to give them some color, as well

as their background. From their

shoulders to their heads I put

some dimensional foam backing

behind them so they are raised up from the

paper, this has given them a very realistic

appearance.

The next two pictures are dedicated to my

Grt. Grandfather Peter who was born in Scotland

in 1850. The page on the left is the farm he

grew up on in Scotland. The page you see below

is a picture of Peter years later when he had already

retired from the Lumber and Woodworking Co.

that he was vice president for.

He came from very humble beginings to achieving

success in his life.

I am now starting on the Irish side of my
family, which I will post here soon.

I love the class I am taking and meeting
new friends as well.

What have All of You been up
to this summer??

Love You All and Blessing be with You,

Susan
xxoo