Artsy Heritage Scrapbooking

Pat and Ruth. Sunday Hats

See my guest post on Anna Aspnes' Blog with tips and examples for creating Artsy Heritage Scrapbook pages. I've included examples of Heritage Scrapping from My Gallery as well as contributions from Anna Teamers, Adryane and Annette. We all agree that color is key! Visit Anna Aspnes' Shop for artsy digital elements to add color and creativity to your heritage pages.

Blending Photos into the Sky

Fly me to the moon This is a photo of my mother from the early 1930s. I wanted to create the dreamy illusion that she was riding her wooden horse up to the moon. With a transfer from Anna Aspnes' ArtPlay Palette Wander and a clipping mask from Anna's Original FotoBlendz No.5 it was easy to achieve this effect.

I started with a background paper from ArtPlay Palette Blossom and two cloud image transfer layers from ArtPlay Palette Wander.

Background Layers

Page View


I then placed Anna's Original FotoBlendz No.5 above the cloud transfers with two photo layers above the FotoBlendz. The first photo at normal mode, the second at darken mode. I used the keyboard shortcut (Mac=Command G) or (Windows=Control G) on both photo layers to clip them to the mask as shown below.

Mask and Photo Layers


Page View

The addition of several layers of WarmGlows No.1 and CoolGlows No.1 at overlay mode (both above and below the photo layers helped create the light and glow in the sky. To complete the page I added the following elements from Anna Aspnes: Oversize Hipster Plumes No.1, Summer Word Transfers No.2, moon and stars from Sun and Moon No.1, MagicSprinklez No.2, edge border from ArtPlay Palette No.5 and Stitched by Anna Borders No.2. The font is Brown Cow.

Completed Page


Also consider Anna's Clouds No.1 and Clouds No.2 to achieve the sky effect.

Scrapping Vintage Photos

I love vintage photos and am lucky to have a big stash of old family pictures. But when it comes to scrapping them I like to bring them back to life with a new freshness and an updated look. Here are a few of my vintage photos posted in My Oscraps Gallery

Boardwalk Secrets I found this photo in my grandmother's collection. She had it simply identified as Mrs. Burke. I just assumed she was with Mr. Burke, but not really sure. Was she having a secret dalliance? circa 1915.

A Day At The Lake My mother and her best friend playing bathing beauties at the lake. 1940. Oakland, CA

Weighing in on Numbers Even old retro and vintage items are fun to scrap in a new way. This is a photo of an old kitchen scale. Love the graphic look of the face.

These pages are created using Anna Aspnes beautiful digital art designs and can be seen here at Oscraps.