Layout photos!

Very nice LO's. I like your "Back yard vistor". Very nice. Thank you for sharing.

Chrissy

Thank you, Chrissy!

I still can't believe we had such an unusual visitor. While he was hanging around, we put an ad in the lost and found in the paper, trying to find his owner. No takers, but we heard from a bunch of people wanting to buy him if we could catch him. Finally, after coming several times a day for a week, he just flew away and we never saw him again. I'm just so glad I got the pictures!

Mel

Nice layouts, Mel! I love seeing what people do with old photos; your backgrounds went great with those pics.

Alicia

You've done a wonderful job! I love the choices you made to feature your great grandparents and parents. Your background visitor is also very nice. Glad you took all that time to get your layouts up on picturetrails. It is nice to be able to see everyone's efforts!

Just Beautiful Mel. I love the one of your folks in the garden. Your embelishments are wonderful.

Judy, SA

Everything looks great. I like the backgrounds you chose for the old photos. Love your backyard visitor. I have one of those in my neighborhood too. The electrician just asked me about him Friday. He's been hanging around here for about 10 years.

Did you use colorblocking paper on one of the LOs? I've been wanting to try that.

Beautiful layouts Mel! You chose really great background paper for the old photos, it sets the photos off very nicely. Thanks for sharing!

Great layouts!!! They are wonderful!! Thanks for sharing.

Those are great Mel!

Did that parrot, actually just show up in your yard??

Your work is great Mel. I just love the ones of your great grandparents. The paper choices go great.

Wonderful LO's. I love colorblocking. Think it is neat to fit the different sizes, colors and combinations together. That's great that you've got the card and note to go on your parents LO. My parents were divorced when I was ten. My mother threw out everything he didn't take the first time. She even cut his face out of most of the photographs in their album. Good thing my grandmother developed most of the pics and had doubles stached away. Thanks for sharing. Sandy

Thanks for the sweet comments. The heritage pages are almost the first layouts I did, a couple years ago. I'm still trying to get the hang of some of the more modern styles. All the folks here do such sophisticated layouts. Y'all are a great inspiration!

The colorblocking paper came from QVC a year or so ago. It looks great, and saves a lot of work, but I haven't used a lot of it because it's sometimes hard to make the pictures and embellishments I want to use fit. When they do fit, though, it makes a very nice page!

You've had a parrot in your neighborhood that long? Do you by any chance live in north metro Atlanta? We've always wondered where that bird went. He wasn't afraid of anything, except us. And he was huge, nearly 3 feet long. We did try to locate an owner, but had no luck. I do hope that when he left, he went home.

I've been taking pictures of my backyard for several years, and really need to do some more bird layouts. Maybe one with one or two large pix and a dozen little ones. I've seen layouts like that in magazines and they look great.

Mel

Nice layout's Mel. I really like the LO of your graet grandparents. The backyard visitor is fun.

Thanks, Sandy

Usually I use color copies of stuff like the card, but this time I wanted to put the original there. A copy just didn't look right. The newspaper clippings, for instance, on my father's WWII layout are copies.

My oldest daughter is divorced from her first husband, and did the same thing with her photos. (I'm like your grandmother; I kept copies of everything.) The first time she came home after the divorce was final, she took all the family portraits off the walls and threatened to destroy them. Fortunately, she wasn't unreasonable- I still have them. I keep telling her that if I don't get some nice photos of her and her new husband (totally different from H#1 and a wonderful man), I'm going to put the old ones back on the walls. She keeps telling me "soon as we can..." I'm going to scrapbook those wedding photos anyway... it's still part of family history, and her second wedding took place in a justice of the peace office in England. No pictures at all.

'Course, I've got to scrapbook *my* wedding first...

Mel