My father-in-law served in the Marines and was stationed in Germany in the 1960's. My husband recently retouched a bunch of family photos and I printed them up. I used 3 of the military pictures on this layout along with paper and embellishments from Authentique's Glory collection. I misted the brown kraft paper with some red Smooch Spritz and even masked some stars. I used sketch #80 from Sketches in Thyme:
I am also entering this page in the Go Fish challenge #19 to create something patriotic and
Unique Crafters Challenge #5 -- Patriotic
Unique Crafters Challenge #5 -- Patriotic
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I think you choose well with the red. It goes really well with the army colours. Thank you for playing with us at SIT.
ReplyDeleteAnne
Love the splatter technique and great colors. Super masculine and patriotic :-) Fabulous job! Thanks so much for playing along with us at the Go Fish Challenge!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful layout!! The background looks Amazing!!! Thank you so much for joining us at the Go Fish Challenge!!
ReplyDeleteLove your Lo and the inking of the stars. Thank you so much for joining us over at GoFish! Challenge . Hope to see you again.
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Kate
Fabulous Patriotic page! I love the masking work! Thanks for playing along with us @ SIT :)
ReplyDelete~Maven Kim
Love what you did with your father-in-laws pictures...such a great way to honor him! Thanks so much for joining us over at Go Fish Challenge. Kathie
ReplyDeleteNicely done! Great photos and I love your misted star background!
ReplyDeleteThis is such a cool layout! Thanks so much for joining us at Go Fish Challenge. :)
ReplyDeleteGreat Lo
ReplyDeleteamazing pics!
xx and tks for playing along at us in the Sketches in Thyme
Leila
So nice page: love the masking. Great work with sketch #80.
ReplyDeleteEli (Sketches in Thyme)
What a great way to showcase old photographs! I just LOVE the misting! It turned out wonderfully. Thanks for joining us this month at Unique Crafters Challenge!
ReplyDeleteYou've captured these memories and highlighted your photographs absolutely perfectly, Sandi! LOVE the patriotic appeal! Thanks so much for playing along with us last month at Sketches in Thyme!
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