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This week the field is wide open . . . we have no particular heritage category today.  So just find a great old photo from the 70’s or earlier and scrap away.  Too easy?  I’ll throw in one request . . . let’s put a modern twist to our heritage pages this time.  When going through the fabulous Heritage Gallery I find that often times I am drawn to the simple and sort of mod looking layouts . . . so I thought that perhaps it might be fun to see what some others come up with too.

I typed “heritage” into the search box in the Designer Digitals Store and came up with loads of cool heritage products . . . and I think that these are particularly mod looking. 

Conifere Kit

Alphabetize Me Brushes and Stamps No. 05

Coming Unglued: Families Alphabet

Cut Ups: My Family Genealogy

Now go through the store on you own and find some other “non-heritage” products for your pages and share them with us in the Heritage Gallery.  Take a look at the pages that CT members Carol [carollee], Sharon [Shannamay] and I [readstoomuch] have made for the challenge.

Carol’s A Note to My Future Self used these products:  Pink Florale Paper Pack, Valentine Pretties Paper Pack: Solids,  Ripped and Stitched Do-it-Yourself No. 03, Artistry d’amour Add-On Paper Pack Clean Stitched: White No. 03, Stitched Journal Strips No. 03, Classic Curled Photo Frames No. 03, Nana’s Buttons and the new and fabulous Anders Kit.

Next we have Sharon’s Love these Memories about her Nana & Grandy.  Sharon used the following from the DD Store:  Filed Photo Frames No. 06, Mega Tag Pack, Anders Kit and Hello Life Boxes Brushes & Stamps No. 03.

The last page is my own . . . I have used the following products:  Design Your Life Template No. 12, Bead Scatterings No. 03, Fine Line Twists No. 01, Fiske Kit, Love Sentiment Strips and Artistry d’amour Add-On Paper Pack.

Lynn aka Grandma Lynnie, my Heritage Challenge co-writer for the blog & I hope that you will draw inspiration from Debi, Jana and the two of us this week for Heritage Challenge No. 49. We would love to see your back to school pages in the Heritage Gallery along with ours.  Remember that your pages should use products from the Designer Digitals Store and feature memories from the 1970’s or earlier.  Some of you may be surprised that you are considered “heritage” girls!!!

I hope you don’t mind, but this month’s Heritage Challenge is doing double duty for me! Over three years ago, I started a book of the homes I have lived in throughout my life. Somewhere along the way the book got stalled. One of my New Year’s resolutions is to finally finish my book. So this month’s Heritage Challenge is to scrap “home.” Maybe for you, as it is for me, home is a building or maybe the word home has another meeting for you—a town, a group, the place you work(ed) or even something else.

The word “home” calls forth many memories-memories of people, events, sounds and smells-stories that are waiting to be told. I had a lot to say as I told the story of my homes, so my pages have a lot of journalling. Maybe, like me, your story will be told with words. Or perhaps your story will be told through your pictures. However you choose to do it, I hope you will be inspired to scrap a layout about home.

I hope to soon have my book completed. Here is the latest 2 page addition to my Book of Homes, the first house that my husband and I bought in 1971:

If you are interested, the other pages I have completed for my book can be seen here.

I hope my project has inspired you. However you choose to tell the story of one of the homes of your life, we would love for you to share in our Heritage Gallery! Hopefully my last pages will be there soon too!

Can you believe that Christmas is already here?  I know that I say this every year . . . but time flies . . . and it seems to me that it could not possibly have been twelve months since Christmas of 2010!  I am turning back my clock to a special Christmas in my life . . . the holidays of 1968.  I have surprised myself at just how much I remember about that Christmas season.  Do you have a Christmas past that you particularly remember?  Was it because of a first in your life . . . because of a special Christmas tree . . .  or a fondly remembered tradition?  If so dig out those old Christmas photographs that are turning yellow in your album and write down your memories about one of your favorite photos.  If you don’t have a photograph of your memory or tradition, you can make a terrific scrapbook page with some of the wonderful elements in the Designer Digitals store!  Join Carol (Carolee), Laura (laura grimes) and me (readstoomuch) and share your memories with your DD friends and you own family!

Carol fondly remembers traditions of Christmas when she was a child . . . from the silly hats to her Dad on the floor playing santa!
Supply list:  Holiday Cheer Word Solids & Stars, Worn Page Edges No. 02, Christmas Village Kit, Messy Stitched Borders: Golden No. 01, Measured Words No. 02, Edge Overlays No. 02, Notebook Edge Photo Masks No. 07, Hinge Pack, Remembering December Tags No. 02 and Make Your Own Postmarks Pack No. 05.

Laura created her eye-catching page as she remembers her grandmother’s flocked Christmas tree!  I love Laura’s tltlework created with this perfect Wooden Alphabet from the store.
Supplies:  Layer Works No. 123, Gingerbread Runaway Solids Paper Pack, Christmas Village Kit, Postmarked Holidays Brushes and Stamps No. 02, Sweet St. Nicholas Kit, Letters Home Elements and Brushes, Wooden Alphabet No. 06 and Botanical Christmas Tag Pack.

My layout returns to Christmas 1968.  We were living in Germany and were spending Christmas with our first child . . . our new baby boy who brought a new dimension to our holidays!  Being away from home for the first time in my life and halfway around the world could have been sad for us . . . but because of wonderful friends and our new baby we celebrated a Christmas to remember always!
Supplies:  Clean Stitched Rounded Corners: Red No. 01, Cut Ups: Christmas, Layered Memories No. 83 and Santa Land Papers (I think that these papers look so retro . . . just so 60’s).

Lynnie, my Heritage Challenge partner & I hope that you will draw inspiration from Carol, Laura and me this week for a Christmas Memories Heritage Challenge.  We would love to see one of your Christmas Memories scrapped in the Heritage Gallery here at Designer Digitals.  I hope that your favorite childhood dresses will grace out Heritage Gallery too.  Remember that your pages should use products from the Designer Digitals Store and feature memories from the 1970’s or earlier.

When thinking about our families, many emotions can surface: love, sadness, joy, frustration. At this time of year, though, when we are approaching Thanksgiving in the US, those are often feelings of thankfulness. We are thankful for all our families have given us, materially and spiritually. We are thankful for those who came before us and those we are watching grow up. For this month’s Heritage Challenge, the Creative Team was asked to think about how their families make them thankful. Sara and Esther responded to the challenge with some fabulous layouts!

Sara’s layout features some wonderful photos of Thanksgivings past. She has used an array of great Thanksgiving elements to showcase her photos. Isn’t it adorable?

Supply list:
Cardstock Banner Alphabet
Autumnal Artistry Kit
Metal Clip Assortment
Thankful Memories Kit
Stitched Word Blocks: Fall No. 01
Monarchy Kit
Really Big Leaves No. 01
Thanksgiving Celebrations Element Pack
Stitched Word Strips: Autumn No. 01
Botanist Notebook No. 25 Mini Kit
From My Bookshelf Paper Pieces: Fall No. 01

Esther recently completed a slideshow of 180 photos for her and her husband’s 50th birthday celebration. It made her appreciate all the good times she has had and how lucky she is. She was thankful that her father took lots of color slides. She used a ton of those slides to create a wonderful two page layout featuring their first 50 years. What a great idea (and a ton of work!)

Supply list:
Katie Pertiet:
Photo Clusters No. 37
Taped Together Overlays No. 01
Classic Cardstock: Pear Perfection
Ali Edwards:
Holidays + Celebrations Hand Drawn Brushes
Words Of Beauty Brushes and Stamps
Maplebrook Studios:
Jelly Alphabet No. 21

Ww are looking forward to your layouts featuring your thankful feelings. Be sure to post them in the Heritage Gallery.

It’s October! For those of us in the US, that brings cooler weather, fall foliage and thoughts of Halloween! Halloween has been celebrated around here for many many years so it seemed an appropriate subject for this month’s Heritage Challenge. I think you will agree with me that Linda (earlofoxford) and Elena did a great job of starting us off with some layouts that will really inspire us to get scrapping those old(er) Halloween photos and memories!

Linda used some delightful photos of her sons from the 70s. I think you will find it interesting, as Linda did, that several of these 70s costumes are popular again today! Check out the spooky tree she included and the awesome shadow she created.  I love Linda’s journaling also!

Linda’s Supply list:
Maplebrook Studios
Layered Memories No. 119
Katie Pertiet
Haunted Woodlands Kit
Assorted Messy Stitches: Red No. 01
Frightful Element Pack
(staple)
Fine Lines Border Lines Brushes and Stamps No. 08
Wire Rimmed Charms No. 02
Drop Shadow Styles Collection
Art Warehouse
Trickery Brushes and Stamps
Lynn Grieveson
Inky Dink Page Borders
Cassie Jones
How’d They Do That? No. 13: Bending Shadows

I just love Elena’s photo of her brother from the 70s! The stack of vintage frames she used with it is perfect! Elena found the perfect quote too!

Elena’s supply list:
Katie Pertiet:
Curled Journal Spots No. 05
Filed Photo Frames No. 05
Flourishing Leaves No. 01
Messy Stitched Borders: Brown No. 01
Wild Horses Kit

Lynn Grieveson:
Worn Page Edges No. 02

Maplebrook Studios:
Emery Solids Paper Pack
Just Linens Paper Pack No. 29
Michaela Solids Paper Pack

I hope you will feel inspired to rummage around in those stacks of old photos and find some Halloween photos to share with us. If you don’t have any photos, Halloween stories and experiences can make terrific layouts too! Mollie (my partner-in-heritage) and I will be waiting to see your creations in the Heritage Gallery!