Stamps Ahead

Week 4 of the Retro TV Show Challenge at Mystical Scrapbooks.  This week Beverly Hillbillies. Here is my layout: Here are the requirements for this week - settle back for a long post. I have written many times on my blog regarding a suitcase of family photos and memories.  Dad was alive at the time and was able to fill me in on many of the photos.   A bit of background, my fathers parents had a dairy in Morriset delivering to residents and shops in the area.  They were considered an essential service during the 2nd World War and my Dad and his brother worked the dairy. Dad told me he made this horse cart to assist in the deliveries.  Crawford Road, Morriset was named after my grandfather.  Some information about the photos. My dad, on the cart - he even wrote his name on the side. This was before he was married to our mother, so I would say in these photos he is in his mid-twenties. He would later leave the farm to join the Police Force and he was ther...

Here is my layout for Day 8...yes skipped Day 7 will get back to it! Rules for Day 8: Use machine stitching.  I stitched down to highlight wood panels and also stitched journalling lines. Use paint.  I used Dylusions White Linen and a dry brush to tone down the colours.  The paint on title I applied with my finger. Use a number in your title....6 Kids.  Probably called children in those days but did not have enough alphas to go around. Use stripped paper aka as wood panel paper Use dotted paper Use a border punch. Other rules I used:  Participated in cybercrop 8am this morning (from Canada) Use your own handwriting Fussy cut..those flowers on left were fussy cut and attached to bottom of dot paper Use a sticker Use hearts Covered a mistake ....I really messed up writing the mother's (my great-grandmother) name....so added another border punch strip..  Here is the proof. On this close up you can see Will Piercey (know as Piercey) has a ba...