It's Family History Month

October is Family History Month.  We thought we’d kick off this month’s reveals over at E-Scape and Scrap with a reveal about preserving our family history on scrapbook pages.  This month is an excuse to dust off those old photographs and take another look at the stories behind them.  Take some time to capture the history behind your family; it’s something you won’t regret doing.

This project also motivated me to scan in some more of those old family photos.  That project has been on hold for a while and there are still plenty of pictures to scan.  I would love to dive back into my genealogy research, but that is limited for now until I can renew my membership with Ancestry.com.

Both of my layouts for this month's reveal used Scrapdragon Designs new Family Roots kit.

For my first layout in this reveal, I presented some of the surprising information we've learned about great-grandmother Catherine and Catherine’s siblings.  We're lucky enough to have pictures of most of the children together and the openings in this newspaper template included in Scrapdragon Designs’ new Family Roots kit allowed me to incorporate the pictures and journaling both into the design of the page.

On my second layout I chose to focus on a non-physical trait shared by many women in our family - the love of reading. 

The team did a fantastic job on their layouts as well - check them out here.

It's Like Looking Through a Window

I had the privilege of playing with the new Folded Papers series from Scrapdragon Designs, just released over at E-Scape and Scrap.  These papers are fun!  And even better, in every kit a set of solid papers in the same colors is included, giving you backgrounds for those windows if you choose not to completely fill them with your picture.  I used the Jewel Brights and Pastels lines.

Take a look at what I've done with these:

Ushering in a New Era
Moving Mom last December was a family affair.  Here I used the whole paper and embellished on top of it.

Rocks the Band
I haven't played in a while, but I love playing the drums in Rock Band!  For this layout I chose to use only the top half of the folded paper in order to leave room to show more of my photo.

Concentrate - Create
Trinity drawing; doesn't she look serious about her work?  I wanted to use multiple photos on this page so I backed the whole layout with one of the solid papers included in the folded paper pack and sized my photos to fit along the opening with the solid paper showing through to separate them.