Meryl's heritage Album Scrap & Chat Wednesday 10 - 11 p.m EST [Archive]

Meryl

01-02-2005, 11:56 PM

I have set this up in the calendar but I don't want anyone to think I'm an expert on Heritage Albums :) Please give any input you can in this thread! For the first on I though we'd chat about Planning / Organizing the album, probably the most daunting part when faced with so large a topic. I did Google the topic and found some help here (http://scrapbooking.about.com/library/reviews/blCYOHAbookreview.htm) - this is to a book review but scroll down & follow various links.
If anyone know any more please do add :0

The calendar info is here (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/forum/calendar.php?do=getinfo&e=336&day=2005-1-6&c=1)

mekstamper

01-03-2005, 02:00 PM

THis looks great Meryl!!

Meryl

01-05-2005, 03:01 PM

5th January, 10 - 11 p.m EST (my South African friends, that is 5.00 a.m - in this hot weather you can be there!)
Each week we will work on a page for our Heritage Album. I will use my kit, "As Time goes By" which is in The Shop at DSP but of course, feel free to use whatever you'd enjoy using
Come along with your photos and ideas, settle down with your beverage of choice - or whatever is appropriate for your time zone and let's have a great time & hopefully produce a great album!
Link for "As Time Goes By" kit
http://store.digitalscrapbookplace.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&manufacturers_id=15&products_id=793

This week it is simply a get together to chat about what we'd like to do - PLEASE come along with your ideas - I'm NOT an expert, I simply set it up because I'd like to do a Heritage Album & hope you would too :) so we can all learn together!
See you, Meryl

shazzt

01-11-2005, 12:14 AM

Hi Meryl,

is it possible to post the subject each week to the forum for those who can't make the chat?

Cheers

Meryl

01-11-2005, 02:14 PM

Hi Meryl,

is it possible to post the subject each week to the forum for those who can't make the chat?

Cheers
I had not really though in terms of topic :) simply a get together where we can chat about what we are doing, exchanging tips.......... Seeing as we worked on grandmothers this last week, the obviouse choice would be Grandfathers for this week.

Hope you can make it!

Dusty

01-11-2005, 05:19 PM

Hi Everyone..
During the first chat I had posted some links to sites that will help with your genealogy, these sites don't really help in making your heritage scrapbooks but will help you find out more about your past which will help you find inforamtion for your scrapbooks. I think it would be great if everyone would post their idea's on making a heritage book, I for one know more about researching genealogy than scrapping it.I have been working on my family genealogy for over 30 years and so far have finished 25 heritage albums, most of them paper, I have just started working on doing them digital. A few of you contacted me and asked me to post some links so thats what you will find here. I hope you find something that will help you and if I can help in any way please let me know. I'll try to post mostly free sites but a few may be pay sites but they are some of the best I have found. These should get you started if you need some type of special link please let me know.

Dusty

Caring for valuable collections http://www.loc.gov/preserv/careothr.html
Interviewing Family Members
http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/rootsl/genealog/genealog.intrview
Lost and Found Old Memorabllia http://www.pastconnect.com/
RAK's http://www.raogk.com/
Data Bases
USGenWeb http://www.usgenweb.com/
Rootsweb http://www.rootsweb.com/
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/default.asp
http://www.ellisisland.org/
Ancestry (Pay) http://ancestry.com/
Land Patent Records http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/
Maps
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/maps/
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/histus.html
Cemeteries
http://www.interment.net/
http://www.cem.va.gov/
http://findagrave.com/
Clip Art http://genealogysearch.org/free/clipart.html
Postcards http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/special/ppcs/ppcs.html
Postcards Vintage http://patsabin.com/VintagePostcards/index1.htm
Timelines
http://www.scopesys.com/anyday/
http://www.ourtimelines.com/
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/archive.html
Encyclopedia of Genealogy http://www.eogen.com/
Historic Newspapers http://www.theoldentimes.com/
State Links
http://www.genealogyforum.org/contents.html
http://www.genealogytoday.com/genealogy/states/
http://www.50states.com/facts/
Census
http://allcensusrecords.com/
http://www.census-online.com/links/
WW1 http://www.floridamemory.com/Collections/WWI/index.cfm
WW11 http://www.abmc.gov/searchww.htm

Meryl

01-11-2005, 09:15 PM

Meryl

01-12-2005, 02:43 PM

Last week we worked on Grandmother pages - this week its the men's turn - I have made a few elements which you may enjoy using for the men in your life!

You must be at the chat to get the password - it will be given out then - the elements will be available for download for a week after that. Look forward to seeing you all!

download here: (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/quickcrop/10_Freebie_Grandfather.zip)

Gallery for your LO's (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showgallery.php?cat=847&password=)

or from the front Gallery page - Gallery > Events > Contests & Challenges > Our Heritage

Look forward to seeing you!

fortlady

01-12-2005, 10:36 PM

Wow, Thanks Dusty!!

shazzt

01-19-2005, 03:52 AM

Can't make the chat (for some reason work thinks I should turn up there!) but I have made a grandfather page:

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=22299&password=&sort=2&cat=500&page=1

Cheers

Meryl

01-19-2005, 01:44 PM

.......... to all those who are busy with their albums - we will have a scrap 7 chat at 10 p.m EST (SA time 5.00 a.m) This week there will be a contest - come along & hear what you will need to know.
Look forward to seeing you!

Avril

01-19-2005, 02:12 PM

I will certainly be at the chat tomorrow....would not miss it.....I think I am the only one that has not done a page yet.......I certainly have the kits, which I have down loaded, and of course my own ideas......but I seem to have a block of some sort, but I am sure I will sort it out in time.....in the past few weeks I have sorted out photographs etc, it is just the starting which does not come.......is this 'scapbooking block' ???
hopefully (maybe) after tomorrow's chat I will get going on this project.
take care......check you out in the chat tomorrow

take care
Avril

Meryl

01-19-2005, 09:11 PM

MaureenH

01-20-2005, 07:45 PM

Something came up unexpectedly and I couldn't make the chat last night. Can you tell me what the new heritage topic is?

Meryl

01-20-2005, 10:26 PM

Thank you to all those who came to this weeks chat - its fun to see our albums starting tp grow! For this week we are working on pages for a contest - to be included in this you need to do a LO including:
a frame, a photocorner and a tag - you can make them yourself, get from a kit, whatever but those 3 things must be included.
When you are done please post here (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showgallery.php?cat=847&password=) if they are in some other gallery I won't see it & it won't be judged!
They must be in the gallery by 10.00 p.m. EST Monday 24th Jan.
I look forward to seeing lots of entries!
See you next week :0)

Meryl

01-20-2005, 10:45 PM

Something came up unexpectedly and I couldn't make the chat last night. Can you tell me what the new heritage topic is?

............ that you couldn't make it - I have posted the details - sure you will se them. Look forward to a lovely entry from you!

Meryl

01-26-2005, 02:16 PM

Don't forget our regular chat tonight - Wednesday 10.00 p.m. EST (Thur 5.00a.m.South Africa) I will announce the winner of last weeks contest, and then we will chat! Look forward to seeing you, Meryl

Karen Bowers

01-29-2005, 02:53 PM

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=23164&password=&sort=2&cat=500&page=1 is my submission for meryl's contest.

and http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=23417&password=&sort=2&cat=500&page=1 here's another one!

MaureenH

02-01-2005, 09:01 PM

Meryl, I thought I saw that you had posted a sketch for us to follow for the current week's crop, but now I can't seem to find it. Can you point me in the right direction. Thanks.

Janet

02-01-2005, 09:46 PM

Here it is:

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=23280&password=&sort=2&cat=847&page=1

Took awhile for me to find it! I thought she had just put that up a couple of days ago, but there are a TON of layouts that have been posted since then. WOW, people are rockin'!

Meryl

02-01-2005, 10:00 PM

Meryl, I thought I saw that you had posted a sketch for us to follow for the current week's crop, but now I can't seem to find it. Can you point me in the right direction. Thanks.

I see Janet has replied - thanks so much Janet! I'm so sorry I thought I'd posted here too, with the DSP muddle obviously had not..........

Meryl

02-01-2005, 10:07 PM

Because of the delay in being able to upload the sketch I have decided to extend the deadline for the sketch contest for our Heritage Chat.
For the contest, I have modified a Betty Higgins sketch for you to use - it is a double page, but the 2nd page (right hand side) is optional. The request was for a sketch which gave plenty of space to journal, hope you like what I've come up with! If you do the optional 2nd side, you can also uses a few of the little squares for more journaling. Modify it to the size you scrap, but keep as closely as you can to the original sketch. I'm so looking forward to seeing your entries!
Entries must be in by 10 p.m. EST Tuesday 8th February & Must be uploaded to the "Our Heritage" Gallery.
You will find the sketch here (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=23280&password=&sort=2&size=medium&cat=500&page=1)
I'm looking forward to lots of entries!

Meryl

02-01-2005, 11:59 PM

Seeing as we've had a bit of a glitch with our contest for this week (see previous thread) I though maybe we could do something different - see this thread (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/forum/showthread.php?p=25394#post25394) for more details!

shazzt

02-03-2005, 12:46 AM

Here is my go at a layout based on Meryl's sketch. I adapted it for a square format:

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=23769&password=&sort=2&cat=500&page=1

Meryl

02-07-2005, 02:43 PM

Wednesday 10 - 11 p.m. EST (South Africa Thursday 5.00 - 6.00 a.m.)
This week we will announce the winner of the Sketch Contest - if your entry is not in yet details are here (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=23280)
Sometime during the chat I will give the first half of the password for the Freebie which you can download

Everyone who then completes a heritage page, & uploads it, during the week following, can email me the link: shzen@mweb.co.za & I will email them the remainder of the password -
so be at the chat,
stay for the chat,
and scrap a heritage page. If you don't do these, then no freebie.............!

Freebie (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=24289&nocache=1)

Meryl

02-16-2005, 03:38 PM

This week in our heritage scrap & chat we will chat about making backgrounds using scans of book pages - I have used these on my pages:
Page One (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=25264) and page two (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=25263)

If you'd like to work along during the chat come along with a few scanned pages, otherwise just take some notes - I've found them fun to do, and the work very well with "modern" photos too - I've used one for the Lo of Josh I did at Christmas:

Look forward to seeing you at the chat!

Meryl

02-23-2005, 03:24 PM

This week in our heritage scrap & chat I will announce the winner for last weeks challenge - chat about making backgrounds using scans of book pages.
After that I though it may be a good time for each of you to share just one exciting thing about scrapbooking thet you discovered, saw, heard, whatever, this last week - maybe new technique that you saw, a wonderful layout which particularly caught your eye, a tip for the software that you use. Come along and share the good news!
Look forward to seeing you at the chat!
Meryl

Timmysmum

02-23-2005, 10:25 PM

Hi heritage pals,
Heres a heritage page I did for the down under challenge last week.
http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=25834&password=&sort=2&cat=500&page=1
Thanks for looking
Sue

MaureenH

02-24-2005, 11:25 AM

I couldn't make the chat last night and am just wondering who the winner of last week's challenge was.

Funtolearn

02-24-2005, 11:55 AM

Hi Maureen
Avril was the winner.
http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=25689&password=&sort=2&cat=847&page=1

Here is her link.
Muriel

Starling

02-26-2005, 09:05 AM

I haven't come to any of the chats yet, but I have a question for the group. Perhaps some of you have some ideas.

How do you scrap genealogy where there are no photos? I have one photo of one grandmother. I have scrapped that. There are no others that I know about.

I do have wedding photos for my parents, which haven't been scrapped yet, but which will be.

I did look at the layouts where you used documents for the backgrounds. I have some documents including 1930 census for my parents, and all of the uncles and aunts except one. I thing Uncle David must have been in the hospital and ancestry.com hasn't indexed hospitals yet. I haven't given up.

I can't find my grandfather in the 1920 census. He was in the US, but I believe he wasn't counted that year.

I have jpegs of the census documents and also of a lot of the ship manifests for almost everyone. And my great grandmother's 1923 New York City death certificate which gives her parent's names.

But no photos. Help!

MaureenH

02-26-2005, 12:35 PM

shazzt

02-26-2005, 01:08 PM

You could always try to get some historical photos of the area they lived in or if you know particular stories, photos or clip art relevant to the story.

Starling

02-26-2005, 02:34 PM

I wouldn't use any meaningful documents as background unless it is duplicative. You and others in the future will want to be able to read those valuable documents easily. I've added to document layouts things like a map of the area where the ancestors lived as background, images of the area or country where they were from, such as the tulips or windmills from Holland. You might include a small photo of yourself or the person who got the census data. I'd also mat or frame the document similar to the way you'd treat a photo.

In some cases what I have is a photocopy of a microfilm. In other cases what I have are digital files from the Web. The digital files are better than the photocopies in almost all cases. In the case of my grandfather's ship manifest, the digital copy was cleaned up and can be read, the photocopy was from an allmost unreadible microfilm page.

Since I only digital scrapbook, I wouldn't be using originals anyway, but I decided I had better make what I am considering clear before anyone gets frightened that I might destroy a piece of history. :)

Starling

02-26-2005, 02:36 PM

You could always try to get some historical photos of the area they lived in or if you know particular stories, photos or clip art relevant to the story.

Excellent thought. I have the addresses of the Lower East Side apartments my mother and my father lived in in 1920. She was 11 and living with her parents. He was in his early 20s and his younger sister and brother came to the US to live with him in 1921. My understanding is that I might be able to get photos of the two buildings. I need to check that out.

But even if I can't, there should be loads of historical photos of the Lower East Side of New York in the 1920s.

Thanks for the suggestion.

Starling

02-26-2005, 02:38 PM

OK, so I can do something with New York City in the 1920s. What do I do with Rhodes in 1900. Or Jerusalem, roughly at the same time. There might be photos of Jerusalem, but I don't think I'll find any for the Island of Rhodes.

Meryl

02-28-2005, 12:02 AM

At our last chat Sallie mentioned that she'd found some lovely lingerie brushes at Adobe, when she looked again they were gone....... she has been good enought to email me to say they have once more reappeared - you will find them here (http://share.studio.adobe.com/axAssetDetailSubmit.asp?aID=11494&back=http%3A%2F%2Fshare%2Estudio%2Eadobe%2Ecom%2Fa xLGSubmit%2Easp%3Flg%3D1%26p%3D2%26t%3D%2D1%26ft%3 DPhotoshop%2BFiles)

Thanks so much Sallie!

alamodedesigns

02-28-2005, 10:14 PM

Here is my post link:
http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=26349&password=&sort=2&cat=500&page=1

Timmysmum

03-01-2005, 07:47 AM

Here's my link

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=26374&password=&sort=2&cat=500&page=1

I actually did this one as a paper scraplift challenge for the down under crop. But I applied just about every filter and effect on the photo so thought it qualified for the 'dreamy look too.. lol
Thanks for looking
Sue

txminx

03-05-2005, 12:21 AM

The New York Public Library has opened a digital gallery of over 275,000 photos.

http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/index.cfm

Lot's of nice stuff for heritage.

Meryl

03-30-2005, 11:47 PM

I'll be in the chat room 6th April, carrying prizes to give away, but this week we will leave Heritage, because its party week! Yes, starting 1st April (DSP's birthday) we will have a week long party - watch for the calendar of fun events!
I look forward to seeing you all!

Karen Bowers

04-02-2005, 10:44 PM

This link (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=29909&cat=500&page=1) will show you my latest heritage page.

Starling

04-17-2005, 09:10 AM

I've got a couple of heritage pages to share. I've been doing my husband's parents from his wallet photos.

His Parents (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=32313&cat=500&page=1)

and

His Mother (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=32548&cat=500&page=1)

Both photos needed a lot of work after 45 years in a wallet. The photo of his mother didn't have much background left above the bush so I had to reconstruct it. They both had a lot of dust, scratches and dents. I also scanned them larger than the originals, which were pretty obviously wallet sized.

Starling

04-19-2005, 09:56 AM

I've uploaded a layout from the ad inspiration given at the last chat. It is HERE (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=32842&cat=500&page=1)

A while back I asked how to scrap an event where there are no photos to be had. It was suggested that I go online and find historical photos to use. I did that and I finally made the first Lower East Side page. The ad worked very well and it was interesting working from an ad.

Starling

05-22-2005, 05:24 PM

Well, now I know why I couldn't find this thread. No one has posted a link to it, or updated the heritage challenge for over a month.

Is there a specific challenge for this week? Or two week period? Or month?

I like challenges because well... they, well.... They challenge me. :)

I know I've continued to post heritage layouts, and that I'm not the only one doing that. But I haven't been able to locate this thread to post a link for the last one or two.

Am I the only one who missed having this thread available?

Meryl

05-22-2005, 09:34 PM

Thanks Starling, you are quite right, been too long! The challange this week is to create a layout "How they Met" this can be you, parents, grandparents......
Look forward to lots of pages!

sempson

05-23-2005, 02:08 AM

Here is my grandparents love story Meryl. I really liked this challenge.

When Romeo Met Juliet (page 1) (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=36944&cat=500&page=1)

When Romeo Met Juliet (page 2) (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=36943&cat=500&page=1)

Meryl

05-23-2005, 02:52 AM

This is just beautiful - the story the photos, even you note of thanks to the couple who introduced them. Great to do a double page so that you can journal the whole story! Well done!This is just beautiful - the story the photos, even you note of thanks to the couple who introduced them. Great to do a double page so that you can journal the whole story! Well done!
Thanks so much for posting the link in the forum too :)

Starling

05-29-2005, 02:38 PM

This (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=37754&cat=847&page=1) is the story of how Joe and I met. We met "cute" to say the least.

Meryl

05-31-2005, 12:56 AM

A reminder that this weeks challenge is "Where they Lived" Lauraloube has done a lovely page, "Isle of View" (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=37521&cat=847&page=1) and I also spotted showme's "The Glory of Easter" (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=37778&cat=847&page=1) several - like me! are still catching up on the "How they met" challenge, some lovely pages! I fully intend working on this weeks challenge today................ One suggestion from last week, if you do page in response to a challenge, it makes it easier to find if you name the challenge in the heading of your layout - just a thought :0)

I have added a heritagy kit to my shelf in the store, (based on my True Love (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=37624&cat=847&page=1) page) called Beads & Things (http://store.digitalscrapbookplace.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&manufacturers_id=15&products_id=1300) - you may like to take a look?

Look forward to seeing you all at the next chat 10.00p.m. EST,
till then take care of yourselves and happy scrapping :0)

Starling

05-31-2005, 08:59 PM

Here is my take on the Bronx (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=38085&cat=847&page=1) in the 1940's and 1950's when I lived there. We actually moved out in 1965, but it hadn't changed that much yet at that point. A few years later my neighborhood burned down. It looked like Dresden in 1945. Like there had been a war and the buildings had lost.

The apartment house in the photo isn't the one I lived in, but it is on the same street a couple of blocks away from where I lived.

All the photos came from the Web.

Starling

06-05-2005, 02:17 PM

Feathebed Lane is the street I grew up on. No one expects a street called Featherbed Lane in a city as big as New York, but the street almost certainly predates the City. The layout is here (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=38746&nocache=1).

sempson

06-12-2005, 04:08 PM

Here is my family tradition page. Enjoy! :) :p My Layout! (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=39670&cat=500&page=1)

sempson

06-20-2005, 01:19 AM

Here is my layout (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=40532&cat=500&page=1) for the Heritage recipe challenge. Enjoy! Meryl I hope you are feeling better! WE MISSED YOU! :p :) :p :) :p :)

alamodedesigns

06-29-2005, 03:10 PM

Here's the link to my layout. This was fun. This is a restored car, but still brought back lots of memories. There is a good chance my ancestors drove a car like this, the original version not the restored.

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=41704

Sallie K

06-30-2005, 11:28 AM

Could someone tell me what this week's theme is for the Heritage group? I couldn't attend the chat.
Thanks!
Sallie K

Meryl

06-30-2005, 12:03 PM

Could someone tell me what this week's theme is for the Heritage group? I couldn't attend the chat.
Thanks!
Sallie K

Sorry you couldn't be there Sallie, missed you - the theme is patriotic - 4th july - military - we cou;ldn't seem to get one word to cover but hope you kwim?

alamodedesigns

07-04-2005, 01:49 PM

Here's my link for the freedom/military link:

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=42441&cat=847&page=1

Elisabeth

07-11-2005, 05:02 AM

It sorta looks like we don't have to actually post a link for our layouts, right? I see a few doing so, but not all. Do we need to?
Gah - I have to work every other Thurs and cannot make this week's chat.
I'll miss being there.

Meryl

07-11-2005, 05:49 AM

No you certainly don't have to Elizabeth, some do, most don't........... mostly just go to the Heritage gallery to look. Sorry you can't mak this week, will miss you, anyway will send out the update.

Starling

07-11-2005, 07:39 AM

I'd like to say a little bit about posting links to the heritage layouts in the forums.

Why do it? Well, for one, I'm unlikely to see your layout if you don't. But when I see a link in a thread I'm active on, I generally will click on the link and I'll comment on the layout.

Even when I'm not doing a particular challenge, like the one about cars (no cars in my family until my generation, so no heritage pages either) it doesn't mean I don't want to see YOUR layout.

I don't think I'm alone. There are so many layouts in the gallery. If you want comments make it a bit easier on all of us and help us find yours.

Elisabeth

07-11-2005, 08:14 PM

Thanks; I got the update, and see that I have mixed up the Wed. chat with whatever I attended last Thursday. (scrapalong, maybe) I will pop in on Wed., assuming my child is abed.

dkapp12

07-15-2005, 11:14 AM

Thanks for your votes! Sorry I missed the chat - but I am still catching on to how things work at DSP.

I wanted to share a plopper that I made from my layout. I would love to see your old 50's pictures! Go here to find link for download.

Kodak Moment Plopper (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=43962&nocache=1)

Elisabeth

07-24-2005, 07:16 PM

My link for the first of this week's heirlooms:

doll (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=44997&cat=847&page=1)

Karen Bowers

08-30-2005, 06:28 PM

Meryl

08-30-2005, 09:52 PM

hey, all, as i've been working on restoring some heritage photos, sometimes i've gotten stuck on figuring out how to restore them. do you think that would make a good topic for one of our wednesday chats? digital photo restoration?

It certainly would Karen, would have to get round the everyone using different software issue though, but could give it a try? Do we have any experts?

Karen Bowers

08-31-2005, 01:32 AM

i'm not an expert, but i'm building some skills. burning and dodging are 2 of my newest tools, and i discovered the "heal" tool in PSE is great for torn photos. playing with brightness and contrast and sharpening have also become natural skills for me now.

even if each of us only has 1 trick to share, there should be plenty for us all to learn.

premier

08-31-2005, 01:59 AM

I would be interested in this. How do you get involved in it?

Elisabeth

08-31-2005, 02:53 AM

Premier, join us in chat Wednesdays at 10 pm Eastern. We will vote on a layout posted in the Heritage gallery for the last week's challenge, then decide on a new topic for the next week. We often have a side chat while we're at it, so Karen's suggestion is a valid one. Perhaps we could concentrate on one software per week, since it will be in snippets around the other conversation, eh? As opposed to getting them all in on one night.

Restoring photos: I use PSP8, and play a lot with clarify and contrast. I also am fond of scratch fix and clone tools. When working with sepia or greyscale photos, I have been known to ease the monochromatic tone to match the kit or background paper better. Your brain doesn't register the tint, just the fact that it's pleasing to the eye with the colors around it.

I have in no way come close to getting the fabbity effects Karen has with her photos. I'm waiting for Kareneffects 101!

premier

08-31-2005, 12:24 PM

Thanks for the info. So, I just click on the chat link and sign in with my same username?

WyoGal

09-25-2005, 12:40 AM

Here is my layout for the September 28th chat. The challenge for this week is to do a layout on Fashion. :D

Dad and His Friends (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=54245)

WyoGal

10-03-2005, 09:29 PM

Here is my layout for the October 5th Heritage Challenge My Home Town (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=55337&cat=500&page=1) .

LauraLou

10-15-2005, 02:08 PM

Meryl

10-15-2005, 02:47 PM

I didn't even know we HAD a forum until this week's October DSP newsletter (yes, it IS the 15th of the month). I really thought the crop and the email letter from Meryl was it. Now I wo9uld like to see this forum get active again.

Glad you did Laura! I started it when we started Heritage but it seemed to fall into disuse :( How about really making it active? Post here when you have uploaded a LO, so none get missed, ask questions, give help - I'd LOVe that :)
And Oh, it is great to be back in touch for 2 hours short of a week i could not get connected to the internet :(

jfricker

10-15-2005, 03:19 PM

Meryl, we are glad you are connected again too. Pam did a nice job filling in for you, but we felt bad you were having internet problems.
Glad to see some postings to this forum too.

Meryl

10-15-2005, 03:24 PM

Yes, I was so very grateful to Pam for stepping in and doing such a fine job - but glad to be back! Just please, all hold thumbs, cross fingers or whatever you do for luck that nothing else goes wrong........

LauraLou

10-15-2005, 03:50 PM

It was a lively discussion this week, but you were missed. There were some newbies and I hope they 1) Come back next week, 2) Find this forum (how about a reminder in the weekly newsletter?), and 3) post a layout this week.

LauraLou

10-17-2005, 05:07 PM

If I don't do the layout right away it never gets done.

http://tinyurl.com/bex8t

This one is the oldest document I have, my Great-Grandfather's application to his church to emmigrate to America. This is what another ancestral archiver told me, anyway. I could make out a few things like his birthdate and Swedish name before he anglisized it.

I have other precious (to me) documents I hope to scrap this week, too. I hope no one minds multiple postings. I see several of us make more than one submission a week. It punches up the gallery, I think.

anne357

10-18-2005, 09:03 PM

This is a layout (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=57691&cat=847&page=1) about my FIL from my DH's perspective. He died when my DH was five and what you see here (with the exception of some pictures, and a few faded memories) is all that he has to remember his father by.

Elisabeth

10-19-2005, 12:47 AM

Sadly I won't make the chat this week; gotta work, but here (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=57560&cat=500&page=1) is my layout. Have fun; I'll miss you!

Meryl

10-19-2005, 12:54 AM

Thanks Elisabeth for posting and for the link (and to others who have also posted) we will miss you this week too :(

jfricker

10-19-2005, 08:55 AM

I posted my layout for our Wednesday night chat at this link.
I also used this layout for my Tuesday morning chat.
I have a friend visiting for a week from Missouri, and I knew there would be no
time to work on two layouts, so I combined them, I hope that is okay.

The link is:
http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=57610&limit=last7&cat=847&page=1

sallyscrapper

10-19-2005, 10:46 PM

I never new this was here before...... Meryl can you post what we are to do each week here so if our newsletter gets lost or we can't make the chat....or if we forget :) we know what we are up too!!??

Meryl

10-19-2005, 10:48 PM

Meryl

10-19-2005, 11:05 PM

Thanks so much to all of you who came to this weeks chat - it was lovely to see you all :) Well done to Heathert for her beautiful "Long Distance Love Affair" (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=57816&cat=847&page=1) - you have won a voucher for a page kit Hetaher - and you now the drill :) please snd me an email (shzen@mweb.co.za) with your screen name, "real" name and email address to claim your prize.

The theme for this next week is "Jewellery" - I'm sure all of you have something tucked away which is page worthy? I look forward to seeing lots of sparkly gems in the gallery next week :)

HeatherL

10-20-2005, 08:01 AM

Thanks Meryl for directing us to this forum. I didn't really remember it was here. I love the weekly chats and the incentive to reawaken and preserve our past. Every week there is such a diversity of history represented which makes fascinating reading. Looking forward to next week's challenge.

LauraLou

10-20-2005, 02:33 PM

I really couldn't wait to do this layout. I also couldn't wait to use the new A Second Story to Tell kit and the additions.
http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=57919&cat=500&page=1
I am so grateful to Meryl for hosting this weekly chat. I have a TON of heritage pages completed, now. I want to make mini-albums for my children and my brother for Christmas. I will be hosting this weekend at 1:00 PM Sat and Sun during the DSP Crop-til-you-Drop. My topic will, of course, be heritage mini-album gifts. I am planning on some freebies, too.

Meryl

10-20-2005, 02:40 PM

What a wonderful page Laura - I have commented there :) I'm so thrilled that you enjoy the chat, folk like you just make it all so worthwhile, thank you for being so very loyal to it. Good luck with your chat, so sorry i cannot join you, we are away for the weekend (camping!)

sempson

10-23-2005, 09:46 PM

Is this where we are supposed to post!?

Here is my layout for the Jewelry Challenge.Click Here! (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=58471&cat=847)

I don't really have any special jewelry that has been handed down to me so I did the history of cameos. I have been wanting to use the Somewhere in Time PTP kit and there is a cameo on that kit so I thought I would just do that. My grandparents house burned down when my Mom was in the 7th grade and they lost everything including photos, journals, everything my grandpa brought back from WWII even their wedding rings. So anyway this is what I did. I am facinated by cameos!! I think they are beautiful!!

Meryl

10-23-2005, 09:51 PM

You have found the place, lovely page I have commented there :)

ellen

10-24-2005, 02:43 AM

I've uploaded my jewelry page for this week's heritage. Most of our heritage jewelry was stolen after a burglary at our home shortly after my mom's death. Her watch remained. This watch has a story to tell, but I used Meryl's "As Time Goes By". And I don't know the whole story as explained on the layout. Link:
http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=58524&cat=847&page=1
Thanks, Meryl, for all you're giving us with the chats, your lovely kits, and most of all, how to treasure our past.

WyoGal

10-25-2005, 10:27 AM

Here is my layout for this week's challenge.. My Grandma's Watch (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=58726&nocache=1).
I missed you guys last week! I have a Book Discussion Group that meets on one Wednesday night each month so had to miss but I am looking forward to this week's chat. I loved the jewelry idea. It made me get up in the top of my closet and drag down that heavy box with Grandma's watch in it. :eek: I am glad to scrap her watch. It is one of my few most prized posessions. See all of you Wednesday night!! :D

Meryl

10-26-2005, 09:55 PM

It was lovely to see such a large and lively group at Heritage Chat this morning - thanks so much for coming :0)

Our winner this week was Wyogal for here lovely page My Grandma's Watch (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=58726&cat=847&page=1) for this she wins a coupon for a page kit from DSP. Well done Linda!

Some of you have had a bit of a problem getting your prizes - the way I do it is to ask Angie to send the prize, copying you the message - PLEASE if you are a winner, save this email and if it does NOT arrive within a week, reply to me on this same message, otherwise it becomes very tricky to track back.

The topic for next week is "Porches" - steps, anything near the house, but outdoor I suppose I could say? Sounds interesting, some members have waited a long time for this on - look forward to seeing lots of lovely pages.

Please make use of our Heritage Forum thread - post you LO link there, keep it active, it is always a good place to give you news too, go to the link and subscribe to it so you get email updates (click the little down arrow beside thread tools) - if you have posted there, though, you will get an email if anyone replies.

I have a new kit in the store A Second Story to Tell, (http://store.digitalscrapbookplace.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=1723) you may like to look at it, I have been enjoying using it for pages from our last holiday, still quite a few to go! I am working on an embellishment set, Digital Date, .png's for you to date your pages - I have included on several of my newest pages, here's one (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=58990&cat=500&page=1) (bottom right corner). Basically they are mix and match - I'd love any ideas on what would be useful to you? I have the months as round words, year's straight across and some little tags. Feedback much appreciated :0)

Remember if you have daylight saving coming up, same time 10.00 EST, same place next week....... good for me :) an extra hour's sleep :)

sallyscrapper

10-26-2005, 11:24 PM

Porches great!!!! Meryl can't wait for your embellishment set to be available it will be so handy . How about some that are stamped in[like in wax or wood bevelled down] like you hit thestamp with a hammer. Maybe some little tags or plaques with the words -date or circa on and room for us to add the date. Abbreviated months is handy ie december is dec etc...Hope this gives you some ideas....

JustScraps

10-27-2005, 06:50 AM

lol I was in the scrapping mood.. (well, pretty much every mood is a scrapping mood) so I already did one LO for next Heritages' LO. Here is the link: http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=59004 But I have more porches so I might do another one or two.. :p

Meryl

10-27-2005, 06:54 AM

wow that was quick! lavely page I have commented there

LauraLou

10-27-2005, 09:41 PM

I came across this poem I saved a long time ago. I thought maybe we could do a challenge around the poem some week.
STRANGERS IN THE BOX

Come, look with me inside this drawer
In this box I've often seen,
The pictures black and white;
Faces proud, still, serene.

I wish I knew the people,
These strangers in the box.
Their names and all their memories
Are lost among my socks.

I wonder what their lives were like?
How did they spend their days?
What about their special times?
I'll never know their ways.

If only someone had taken the time,
To tell who, what, or where...
These faces of my heritage
Would come to life again.

Could this be the fate
Of the pictures we take today?
The faces and the memories,
Someday to be passed away.

Make time to save your pictures,
Seize the opportunity when it knocks;
Or someday you and yours could be
The Strangers in the Box!

Author Unknown

Meryl

10-27-2005, 09:47 PM

Laura this is a wonderful poem, thank you so very much! I'm sure it will make a great challange. The sadness of these unknown photos - I always feel on a mission to date, name and journal - I feel so sad for the stories to be lost - thanks so much!

WyoGal

10-27-2005, 09:49 PM

Laura! What a wonderful poem! I am so glad you thought to share it with us!

Meryl

10-27-2005, 09:56 PM

Thrilling to see the number of Porch LO's being posted to take a few minutes to take a look and comment on the great pages in our Heritage Gallery (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showgallery.php?cat=847)

jfricker

10-30-2005, 08:22 AM

I have posted my layout for this weeks Heritage Chat. The theme is Porches.
I posted one yesterday and decided I didn't like it, so I redid it. You might have to refresh your screen.

Today's link is at http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=59414&cat=847&page=1

ellen

10-30-2005, 06:01 PM

Here's the link to my porch layout for this week's Heritage Chat. The house is gone now. How I wish I had taken pictures when they had the white picket fence and the rhododendrons in blossom, leaves on the trees - the huge trunks holding the hammock. This was the only picture, probably taken at the time they purchased the place, when their son returned from WWII and took over the family farm.
http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=59471&nocache=1

anne357

11-01-2005, 12:01 AM

Here is my Our Back Porch (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=59598&cat=847&page=1) layout. It is from my DH's past when they lived in Chicago. He has since traveled back to the neighborhood, but not much is left that he remembers. :( It has changed so much.

WyoGal

11-01-2005, 11:59 AM

Here is my layout for this week. Lathems on Steps (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=59658)
I sure wish we knew more about Glen's grandparents. This is the only photo we have of them. Just points out how important it is to scrap our photos and journal the information now while we have it so that others down the line will know about their heritage.

sempson

11-01-2005, 07:14 PM

:rolleyes: OOps!...I posted in the gallery but I forgot to post here. Here is my PORCH HERITAGE (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=59499&cat=500&page=1) layout for this week. Sorry about that!! :p

sallyscrapper

11-01-2005, 10:51 PM

here is my effort for the porch challenge...............Cain Family (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=59732&cat=500&page=1)

jfricker

11-03-2005, 04:39 PM

Meryl, Can you give me some details about this next weeks heritage layout? What exactly are we to have for our theme?

Thanks

Meryl

11-03-2005, 10:08 PM

Sorry Joan, I just didn't get a chance to get it posted yesterday - glad you are keen to get started!

For this next week's challenge we are taking the theme "Thankfulness" - you may of course do Thanksgiving itself, or, if all you know about Thanksgiving is what you have seen on TV, like me :), then a page on thankfulness in a more general way, with a heritage theme e.g.. you may have a Grandmother, Grandfather to whom you owe a great deal?

For the following week, I wondered if you would not like to use Laura's lovely poem as inspiration? It is posted in this forum (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2748&page=7&pp=15) , just scroll down. You would not all have to use the actual poem on the page, but use it as inspiration - Why do I scrap my Heritage Photos? what does preserving my past mean to me? Just a thought......

Our winner this week was NoJiMom for her lovely Grandma's Front Steps (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=59012&cat=847&page=1) - enjoy your shopping, Nancy!

Look forward to seeing you next wee, and maybe some of you may like to join me at my Christmas Chat on Monday 10.00 p.m. EST - details are here on the calendar (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/forum/calendar.php?do=getinfo&e=539&day=2005-11-7&c=1)

anne357

11-04-2005, 10:25 AM

It looks like you Christmas chat has been moved to Wed night in place of the Heritage chat. What's up? Is it Monday or Wed? See calendar (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/forum/calendar.php?) . Thanks for clearing this up.

NoJiMom

11-12-2005, 12:49 AM

Here's my layout (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=61275&cat=847&limit=recent) on this coming week's challenge. :)

anne357

11-12-2005, 04:29 PM

Here is my Strangers in the Box (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=61372&cat=847) layout for this weeks challenge. It represents why I scrap. I don't want people fifty years from now going through my maroon box wondering who are the people in this picture, and why did were they important.

Meryl

11-13-2005, 08:57 PM

Sorry I know I am late in sending this - we have had house guests - lovely! - but you know how it is, meals etc. become all consuming time issue!

For this weeks LO's we are drawing inspiration from the lovely poem Laura posted "Strangers in the Box" posted by Laura Lou - I have copied it below. The poem can appear on your LO but it need not - JUST inspiration!

Our winner of last weeks heritage challenge was Aquamoon for her "Porch"
http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=60271&cat=847
Well done Aquamoon! Please will you email me shzen@mweb.co.za with your real name, screen name and email address so I can send out your voucher for a page kit?

I look forward to lots of lovely "Strangers in the Box" pages - I see a couple of great ones already.

See you Wednesday @ 10.00 EST (South Africa 5.00 a.m. Thursday)

STRANGERS IN THE BOX

Come, look with me inside this drawer
In this box I've often seen,
The pictures black and white;
Faces proud, still, serene.

I wish I knew the people,
These strangers in the box.
Their names and all their memories
Are lost among my socks.

I wonder what their lives were like?
How did they spend their days?
What about their special times?
I'll never know their ways.

If only someone had taken the time,
To tell who, what, or where...
These faces of my heritage
Would come to life again.

Could this be the fate
Of the pictures we take today?
The faces and the memories,
Someday to be passed away.

Make time to save your pictures,
Seize the opportunity when it knocks;
Or someday you and yours could be
The Strangers in the Box!

Author Unknown

sempson

11-15-2005, 02:42 PM

Here is my layout for this week! http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=61817&cat=847&limit=recent

ellen

11-15-2005, 03:00 PM

Many of the old photography tools I still have and displayed them in this layout. The albums are not acid free; the photo corners packages are still unopened, and the pictures have not yet been scrapped. The camera that my mom used and I used during my young years (with embarrassment because of the accordian bellows - unlike my friends' cameras) sits on a display shelf.
http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=61825&nocache=1

sallyscrapper

11-15-2005, 08:23 PM

Here is my effort for our challenge this week Strangers in the box (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=61883&cat=847)

webfrau

11-16-2005, 01:55 AM

I've just uploaded by very first LO to DSP - my take on the "strangers in the box" poem.
I see my role in scrapbooking as an archivist for future generations. I hope my son will appreciate the information that will be available to him about his own past as well as that of his forbears.
If I do say so myself I'm quite pleased with the result. I called it Window to the Past (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=61921&cat=847)

Meryl

11-16-2005, 02:07 AM

Well done on your first LO, and such an interesting and lovely one too :)

ellen

11-20-2005, 10:50 PM

Uploaded Christmas layout for this week's challenge:
http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=62575&cat=847

jfricker

11-23-2005, 07:41 AM

This is the link to my Heritage layout for tonight's chat.

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=62937&cat=847

HeatherL

11-24-2005, 11:27 AM

Here is my link to my layout for the Christmas Past theme. These cards were a Christmas tradition in our family for over 40 years.

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=63012

webfrau

11-24-2005, 09:58 PM

We had an internet outage yesterday so I was disappointed to miss the chat. Who won? What is the theme for this week?

ellen

11-30-2005, 02:17 PM

Our theme for the week is creating a holiday recipe page (I won last week, but it was a very close win among three of us...sorry you had the outage, Webfrau).
O.k., I've been working on this, and I must have redone this about five times. I want it to look like a page in a recipe book without overtaking the page with Christmas colors. Since I don't make this recipe until Christmas Eve, photos of the pudding will be added later. I also might change the size of this page after determining what kind of booklet this will go into - may be oblong rather than square. In other words, this is not done yet!

Link: http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=63779&cat=847

Meryl

11-30-2005, 03:00 PM

We had an internet outage yesterday so I was disappointed to miss the chat. Who won? What is the theme for this week?

Sorry I missed your message here but Ellen has answered below!

Meryl

11-30-2005, 03:06 PM

Just to remind you our chat will probably be interrupted as there is a guest chat with Renee Pearson

See details here:

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/forum/calendar.php?do=getinfo&e=556&day=2005-11-30

HeatherL

11-30-2005, 08:14 PM

Here is my heritage recipe layout for this week's challenge. I will put up a photo of these delicious cookies when I start making them in December.

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=63820&limit=last1

anne357

12-04-2005, 01:26 PM

Here is my cookie layout (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=64306&nocache=1). They are my great-grandma's sugar cookies.

MerylBartho

12-05-2005, 08:40 PM

I am thrilled to see cookie recipes going into the gallery :) I like a good girl did my cookies last week, so this week you will get Christmas Cake - it was a lot of work getting all the photos and info together, but I think worth it - I like the result, hope you do too :)

Page one (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=64436)

Page two (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=64435)

sallyscrapper

12-05-2005, 10:39 PM

As I don't have a cookie recipe that we do for xmas I decided to do a Plum Pudding (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=64514&cat=500&ppuser=291) layout instead.Using Meryl's GREAT Granny's Pudding Kit.....:)

LauraLou

12-07-2005, 09:53 AM

I don't do cookies, either, but the most sacred of holiday traditions seems to be a big crockpot of spiced cider, or Wassail (one of many different kinds of wassail). so here is my offering for the week.
http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=64476&cat=500&ppuser=891
ALSO...the Kim Komando cool site of the day is www.ephemeranow.com , a very cool site with tons of mid century pictures I can see using in heritage layouts from that period, everything from vehicles, furnature, to old ads. I can't see enough of this site.

ellen

12-07-2005, 06:03 PM

Here's my favorite sugar cookie recipe. Another page is done for my recipe book.

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=64716&cat=847

sallyscrapper

12-08-2005, 10:03 PM

Here is another recipe layout of one of our family favourites Christmas Cake (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=64891&cat=500&ppuser=291)

Meryl

12-08-2005, 10:54 PM

wedding seems to have overtaken my brain! I cannot remember what the topic for this next week is? anyone help please?

Elisabeth

12-09-2005, 02:03 AM

Collectables, your collection of something, anything. This ought to be good!

Meryl

12-14-2005, 03:30 PM

As lots of you know our daughter, Raewyn, is getting married this Friday (thats now just 2 sleeps!) Right now I am very tired and a bit stressed, please if I don't get to the chat will someone take charge for me? Choose a winner and winner to email me with name, screen name and email address, and set a topic for next week? I'd be so, so grateful :0)

Elisabeth

12-16-2005, 04:26 AM

So can anyone report back - do we have a theme for next week?

jfricker

12-16-2005, 06:29 AM

There were not many layouts posted, so it was decided to carry over the theme again for next week.

webfrau

12-16-2005, 12:22 PM

The collections theme has been continued as there weren't many LOs in the gallery.

Meryl

12-18-2005, 10:03 PM

Thank you to so many of you who have been so interested in Raewyn & Brendan's wedding, now that it is sucessfully over I will have more time to think heritage, thanks so much to all of you for your patience! The theme for this next week is a continuation of the "collections" theme - look forward to seeing lots of pages, but then again, I know Christmas is near, so please don't you, feel stressed!

In case you'd like to see some wedding pic, I have posted a wedding photo in the gallery here (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=66324&cat=500&ppuser=24) and in the description is a link to a private album where there are more.

See you all Wednesday 10.00 p.m. EST!

Meryl

12-21-2005, 11:02 PM

Thank you to all who came to this weeks chat and those who posted theire "Collections" The winner of the voucher for a page kit this week is jfrieker! Joan please email me, you know the routine!
The topic for the next contest is "Stories handed down through the Family" and you have 2 weeks in wich to do it. As a New year thank you, I will have a freebie availabe for all posters on the topic - the freebie will include the binder some admired this week - BUT you MUST post a LO to get it :)
A very, very happy Christmas to all of you, and all the very best for 2006! thank you for your loyalty to Heritage this past year.

webfrau

12-21-2005, 11:17 PM

Now there's an incentive we can't refuse!

anne357

01-02-2006, 07:13 PM

Here is my family story Jumping Ship (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=68571&cat=500&ppuser=14372) layout.

webfrau

01-03-2006, 02:19 AM

My family story LO is posted: Costumed Capers (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=68634&cat=847)

I asked my father to "tell me a story" and to tell me this story in his own words. To my surprise he did! I must try it again.

Margie

01-03-2006, 10:25 AM

just a quick note. meryl is still offline and is hoping to get back soon. no one in her area was rushing to work over the holidays! :)

WyoGal

01-03-2006, 10:40 AM

Here is a little story about a Christmas tradition.
Christmas Story (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=68606&cat=500&ppuser=4973)

sempson

01-04-2006, 02:49 PM

Here is my layout for the challenge! Hope you like it! :p

* A Story To Tell * (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=68749&cat=500&ppuser=6067 )

:) :p :D :eek: :o :)

ellen

01-04-2006, 06:27 PM

My family story:

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=68881&cat=847

sempson

01-09-2006, 08:30 AM

Here is my layout for the Humorous Story Challenge!

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=69592&cat=500&ppuser=6067

...and guess what! :eek: I got to do CHICKENS! :D :D :D

Meryl

01-09-2006, 11:08 AM

Sorry i seem to be so behind with everything right now, still catching up after all our family excitement :)

I was thrilled to have such a full chat room on Wednesday evening (Thursday morning:)) and such an enthusiastic crowd too :) We had a number of great LO's to choose from and the winner was Ballykissangel for her lovely page Not Dead Yet (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=67793&cat=847) Bally I need you to email me with your name, screen name and email address to send your prize of a page kit - Well done!
Our theme for this week is "Humour" so any pages which will bring laughs please :) I see we already have some good ones rolling in, keep them coming. See you Wed 10.00 p.m. EST.

WyoGal

01-15-2006, 05:37 PM

Meryl, I wanted to let you know that I won't be able to make it to the chat on Wednesday. We are having our once a month Book Discussion Group. I hope they change it to another night next year! :o
Here is my layout for the week.. http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=71094

sempson

01-15-2006, 05:49 PM

Here is my layout for this weeks challenge *School Days*.

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=71088&cat=500&ppuser=6067

LauraLou

01-16-2006, 11:02 AM

I am back on track with a layout. Many of you have seen me referr to my "best friend" of the lst 26 years. This is his story.

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=70324&cat=500&ppuser=891

I need to pay closer attention, I guess. I thought last week was a cute or humorous photo. My goodness! My family abounds with funny stories...just no photos to go with them.

ellen

01-18-2006, 12:30 AM

Link to my layout for school days:
http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=71523&cat=847

jfricker

01-18-2006, 09:25 AM

I have posted my layout for tonights chat:

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=71545

webfrau

01-18-2006, 11:16 PM

Sorry to drop out of the chat today. My chat wasn't responding and even though I restarted my PC I couldn't get back onto DSP at all. I don't know if was me or DSP having technical difficulties.

Please post what happened - who won? what is the theme for the coming week?

sallyscrapper

01-19-2006, 12:07 AM

I couldn't get into the chat today either :( apparently the site was down for a while....So hope fully next week I can make it!!.....:)

Meryl

01-19-2006, 04:41 AM

Sad about the chat this mprning (for me anyway!) during the voting the site went down, you'd have laughed, there I was talking away to myself, wondering why you were all being sooooo polite and not butting in :) Anyway, we will have to hold the voting till next week - I thought maybe so as not to complicate things we should perhaps stick to the "School Days" theme? sure most of you have lots of those :)
Next week we will choose 2 winnere a winner and a runner-up out of two weeks entries - OK with you all?
Thanks so much those of you who did make it!

sempson

01-19-2006, 01:35 PM

:p :D :eek: Meryl! That sounds wonderful. I was thinking also "WOW everyone sure is quiet tonight"...LOL! What was weird is I could type and it would show up on my screen....I was soooo bummed. I went and reloaded the sight...nothing...then I disconnected and tried again....nothin....then I turned off my computer thinking it was me....LOL! LOL! I am so glad it wasn't just me!! LOL! LOL! No problem coming up with more school inspired ones. I can do a couple of those! LOL! Thanks Meryl!!! :) :p :D :eek:

webfrau

01-19-2006, 02:31 PM

LOL! Sounds like we were all doing the same thing.
Sticking to the school days theme is really just a plot to make me do the second page to mine isn't it!!!:p

I've already changed my page, I wan't happy with it and it was bugging. I'm not sure I'm convinced yet but I must upload the changes. Meanwhile I'm late for work!

LauraLou

01-20-2006, 10:17 PM

I was downloading a bonus at the same time and I thought *I* had caused some trouble. I used two different computers before I decided it wasn't me.

No problem running this challenge over another week.

williang

01-22-2006, 04:09 PM

I haven't been a part of DSP for too long, but I'm hoping to jump in on this thread soon. I've got SO many heritage pics to work on! This is the first one that I've done... I welcome any feedback, cc, whatever! Thanks!

~Ang

We Are Family (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=72249&cat=500&ppuser=19110)

sempson

01-22-2006, 09:29 PM

Here is my LO for this weeks challenge!! LOL! :p

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=72309&cat=500&ppuser=6067

WyoGal

01-25-2006, 09:44 PM

Here is my layout or this week's theme.. School Photos.
http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=72846&cat=847

Meryl

01-26-2006, 01:42 AM

Thanks so much all of you who so enthusiasticall chatted in this weeks chat, lovely to have had so many :) As most of you know our chat was abruptly cut shot last week with the site going down, so this week we have 2 winners:

myjalark's We Remain (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=71116&cat=847)
and

jfrieker's Lorie's School Photos (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=71545&cat=847)

It was pointed out that We Remain was not a shool topic, after winners were announced, sorry I had not noticed, however a lovely page and worthy winner. Congrats to you both, I have emailed/pm'ed you both with the winner requirements.

The topic for next week is "Something Precious to me, with a story to tell" - this could be jewellery, a piece of furniture, anything that is special to YOU and who's story you'd like to preserve.

Post them here (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showgallery.php?cat=847).

Start thinking of the next challange "Elegant" just a heads up :)

See you all next week, and I hope we have a very full gallery!

williang

01-27-2006, 08:18 PM

Oh, I know of just the thing that I want to photograph and do a layout of! I had never thought of making a LO of some of my precious "tangible" memories...but I guess through time they may not always be tangible. What a great way to pass that memory on! Thanks for the inspiration!

~Ang

Meryl

01-27-2006, 09:56 PM

Great :) Look forward to seeing your page, let us know when its up!

williang

01-29-2006, 07:00 PM

Okay, here's my LO -- a pretty simple one, but I like it! :D

~Ang

My Daddy's Chair (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=73401&cat=500&ppuser=19110)

Meryl

01-30-2006, 01:20 AM

Ang this is a beautiful story :) thank you som much for sharing - I have commented on your lovely page :)

williang

01-30-2006, 07:57 PM

Thanks Meryl! As big a genealogy nut as I am, I'm suprised I haven't begun my heritage album sooner, but I'm trying to play catch up here with your thread, and hopefully will have more to show soon!

Thanks!

~Ang

WyoGal

01-31-2006, 10:20 AM

Meryl, here is my layout for this week's theme, Something Precious to Me. http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=73634&nocache=1
This was a fun challenge, thanks Meryl! :D

jfricker

02-01-2006, 05:38 PM

This is my layout for this week's theme, Something Precious to Me.

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=73936&cat=847
:)

Cupcake

02-01-2006, 05:42 PM

Here is my LO on one of the most precious things I possess. My mom's Cameo Broach http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=73950&cat=500&ppuser=8613

webfrau

02-01-2006, 07:14 PM

I've done two for this weeks theme.

Florence's Book (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=73479&cat=500&ppuser=29334)
Flossie Bear (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=73967&cat=500&ppuser=29334)

I had a third one in mind but when it all crashed I figured I was being told to go do some housework instead!! :eek:

omio

02-03-2006, 11:41 AM

At our last chat Sallie mentioned that she'd found some lovely lingerie brushes at Adobe....!

Wish I were more experienced at digi-scrapping but I'm just now taking my secnd DSU class. Hope you have this again in the future, though, Meryl, because I would love to learn how to use my 19th century photos.

My question for now, though, is about whether these brushes can be used for PSE. I went to the Adobe site, saw that the downloads were for PS, but can't find any info about PSE. Can anyone enlighten me? :o

alamodedesigns

02-03-2006, 12:28 PM

Hi, I missed the chat Wednesday night what is the new challenge for this week?

webfrau

02-03-2006, 12:31 PM

I had downloaded the lingerie brushes from adobe exchange too - they are lovely. I have PSE3 and they work fine. I've only just learned how to use brushes but it was quite easy to do.

A set of brushes ambushed me for this weeks "Elegant" LO that I've uploaded.
Elegant Florence (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=74254&cat=500&ppuser=29334)

omio

02-03-2006, 12:43 PM

webfrau, thank you for the answer. Guess the lesson to be learned is to try in PSE and see if it works -- ha!!

Your layout is absolutely lovely. I used the DaisyDreams with an old picture of my mother for my last lesson in DSU 160. I'm still new at all this, but I've already discovered that I ADORE Lauren's work.

Meryl

02-03-2006, 08:57 PM

Our winner this week is a lovely page Annie's Gift by Aquamoon (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=73909&cat=847) well done Aquamoon :)

The theme for the week is Elegant, a lovely wide topic, could be ladies, families, cars, houses.............. anything that says elegant to you - look forward to lots of entries.

Sorry I did get a bit delayed with this - I am so glad I can be in hiding right now :) I have been battling with a vague, but very sore mouth this week, turns out to have been an apparently large, cyst - great shock yesterday to be whisked into theatre to have it removed - now very swollen and bruised right jawline :)

anne357

02-06-2006, 12:30 PM

Hope you feel better soon!!!

Funtolearn

02-06-2006, 01:02 PM

Oh Meryl so sorry you have had this problem...Hope it goes away soon..
Take Care!

alamodedesigns

02-06-2006, 10:50 PM

Meryl, hope you are feeling much better now. Here is my layout for the Heritage Elegant Challenge. It isn't that old but I think my daughter is elegant and just don't have many old photographs in that catagory of my family.

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=75021&cat=500&ppuser=5725

Thanks for the challenge see you Wednesday night.

Barb

Meryl

02-06-2006, 11:23 PM

Thank you so much for your good wishes ....... wow, it has not been easy and I still have a dreadful bruise and lots of swelling butbit better each day!

omio

02-06-2006, 11:32 PM

How wonderful, though, that the problem was recognized and treated right away! Be kind to yourself for a few days. ;-}

WyoGal

02-07-2006, 11:19 AM

Meryl, I am so sad to hear that you have been under the weather! :eek: I am glad that you are feeling a bit better. Please take care of yourself!!

Here is my layout for this week's challenge... http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=75116&nocache=1

See everyone on Wednesday! :D

Elisabeth

02-11-2006, 12:44 AM

I missed last week's chat. What's the new theme?

Hope you're back on top quickly, Meryl!

JustScraps

02-11-2006, 01:11 PM

Weddings! One I love and have been waiting for! Cant wait til next crop!

WyoGal

02-13-2006, 03:05 PM

Meryl, here is my layout for this week's challenge, 'Weddings'. This is the Wednesday for our Book Club so I am so disappointed not to be able to attend this week. :( I am so glad that the Book Club is only once a month! :eek: See ya next week! :D
http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=76600&cat=847

ellen

02-13-2006, 09:08 PM

Here are a couple of layouts for "Weddings" - my mother-in-law in her blue dress and Grandma with her orange blossoms.

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=76636&cat=847
http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=76637&cat=847

scrappistaci

02-15-2006, 10:47 AM

Oh NO! I have dont my in the news layout for this weeks challenge. I thought weddings was next week! Did I get it mixed up? I still have time to do my Wedding LO... I was sure.. ok so what should I do?

:eek:

Meryl

02-15-2006, 02:34 PM

can't find the message I was SURE I'd posted after last weeks Heritage??? sorry, am I getting old? but sure I did?
Yes "weddings" for this week please see you soon

JustScraps

02-15-2006, 08:41 PM

this is my second (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=77078&cat=847) entry, this was my first (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=76653&cat=500&ppuser=11575). I had so much fun with these, wish I had time to do more.

williang

02-15-2006, 10:48 PM

Here's my wedding LO of my great aunt and uncle Darlene and Carl (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=77105&cat=847). Unfortunately, I don't have the date of their wedding to include, but I'm going to call and get it from her before I print it for my album.

I absolutely love the lyrics to the song I included. I wanted to use it in my wedding, but my cousin and I were getting married just a few months apart, and she had dibs on it! ;)

~Ang

sallyscrapper

02-15-2006, 11:05 PM

:)OK Cos Meryl got kicked into cyberspace and we still haven't located her:eek: .... we continued on the chat. We voted on the wedding Layouts and CUPCAKE won with her Wedding Story layout..;)

We decided that next weeks topic will be Headlines of the Times now this can be a headline from a paper or magazine,or if your grandparents were married at the same time an earthquake hit, or even if someone made it into the news by doing an extraordinary feat anything to do with headlines....

Meryl

02-16-2006, 01:42 AM

Thank you so much for carrying on without me so well, you girls are stars and I love you all :)
Yes, there I was in mid sentence with what I was telling you, and bham, out I was.....

I look forward to seeing lots of great headlines next week.

Congratulations Cupcake! I hope you get your email, with real neame, user name and email address to claim your prize of a page kit voucher.

Once again, thanks so much, especailly to Sally, for posting the news :)

ellen

02-22-2006, 01:30 PM

Here's my headlines layout for this week. I've been wanting to do a layout for my father-in-law's time in the USMC during WWII and include my mother-in-law's 40's Hawaiian swimsuit. We also have his "dogtag", but where is it when you're doing a layout?!
http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=78649&cat=847

Meryl

02-22-2006, 02:10 PM

I see a few Headlines in the gallery, I know many of you are "last minuters" so maybe the gallery will be full when I wake up in the morning LOL!

I just have to tell you about the brushes that I have been working tirelessly on - at last they are in the store I got my daughter to help me to draw them and i did the cleaning up and making into doodle brushes - I hope some of you use them (remember, even if you don't use Photoshop all DSP brushes have the .png files so anyone can use them)

Click here to see meryl's Doodley Brushes (http://store.digitalscrapbookplace.com/index.php?main_page=advanced_search_result&search_in_description=1&keyword=doodley):)

I especially like the little boy ones :)

sallyscrapper

02-22-2006, 06:58 PM

OK ...yes I'm a last minuter:o lol here is my layout for this week Headlines of the Day (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=78679&cat=847)

sempson

02-22-2006, 07:49 PM

I too am a last minute one this time. :p This layout was more of a challenge then I thought it would be. There are truly some amazing layouts this week. I am enjoying them immensley. Here is my layout! Thanks for looking! :D

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=78687&cat=847

scrappistaci

02-23-2006, 09:11 AM

I was boooted and couldn't get back on the site last night! Who was the LO winner? And what is next weeks challenge? Did everyone go down or was it just me?

sempson

02-23-2006, 01:30 PM

You weren't the only one Staci! LOL! Meee to! I tried and tried to get back on to DSP and finally gave up and went to bed. I would also like to know the winner and this weeks challenge. LOL! I am glad to see DSP is going strong today! LOL! :p :) :D

Margie

02-23-2006, 01:40 PM

we just snuck in a little server move. we tried not to make too much noise, sorry! :)

Meryl

02-23-2006, 01:49 PM

Yes, not a very successful chat I'm afraid...... I knew they were working on the site, but all seemed to be OK. They my one connection has been off most of the day - must be the too much rain. Anyway back I am......... drumroll..........
the winner of this weeks contest is Ellen for her "After Pearl harbour" (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=78649&cat=847) - well done Ellen, please send me an email (shzen@mweb.co.za) with your name, screenname and email address to claim your prize of a pagekit.

Next weeks challenge - carrying on with the headlines theme - I want you to research the year someone dear to you was born - could be yourself, not Sally though, she says she's not Heritage yet :) a parent, so like you headlined page but more specific. Have fun and lets have lots of lovely pages.

Aquamoon

02-23-2006, 03:04 PM

We don't seem to be having much luck with the heritage chat lately, hope things get back to normal. The new challenge sounds like fun and we should see lots of different years represented to learn about.

sempson

02-23-2006, 08:14 PM

Ohhhhh that sounds like LOTS of fun! I am so excited to see everyones layouts this week!!! :cool:

Sally...LOL! You crack me up! I guess I am not heritage material either....is 1974 heritage!!! LOL! LOL! :eek:

Congrats Ellen!!! Three cheers for Ellen!!! CHEER! CHEER! CHEER!!! WTG! Loved you layout!!

jfricker

02-25-2006, 04:30 PM

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=79273&cat=847

I have posted a layout for the Headlines theme. You can see it at the above link.
:)

sempson

02-25-2006, 06:11 PM

I hit research gold today and wanted to share with everyone. I was doing research for this weeks challenge and came across this sight.

http://www.answers.com/

Just put the year you want to research in the search. It breaks it down into major events by year and even by month. It will tell you who else was born that month and year and on and on. It is a major find!! It helped me tremendously. It seems pretty accurate thus far. So I am pretty sure it is a valid sight. Oh be sure and keep scrolling down. The stuff gets more interesting the further down you scroll! LOL!

Anyway, I hope that helps. I sure am looking forward to seeing everyone's layouts this week. GRREAT idea for a challenge Meryl!! Thank you so much!

:p :D :)

sempson

02-25-2006, 10:24 PM

Here is my layout for this weeks challenge! See you all wednesday!! :p :) :D

ellen

03-01-2006, 01:15 AM

Can you tell I never had a baby book? I'm making up for the years I felt slighted! So, here's my newspaper headlines layout for the year I was born:
http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=80077&cat=847

And thanks so much for the exciting and surprising win last week! I found Mery'ls "Buttered Sage" and put it to immediate use.

Meryl

03-03-2006, 10:17 AM

Not many pages uploaded this last week, but what we lacked in numbers we made up for in quality - outstanding pages :) Our winner tis week was Ballykissangel with her beautiful page Headlines 1946 The Year I Was Born (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=80102&cat=847) - well done Maureen! Bye the way, I see she has uploaded another stunning "yearthat was" page to the gallery - do take a look :)

The challenge for next week is easy "Winter" - so I expect lots of lovely pages :)

See you all on Wednesday / Thursday,

flrebareba

03-03-2006, 01:59 PM

This is my try at this I'm new but having fun

This is my Mom Grandmother and Uncle.

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=80555&cat=500&ppuser=39480

any CC is welcome I'm not out to win I just want to get her album done. HEHE

ellen

03-04-2006, 04:53 PM

I just love Meryl's "Collectors Tray for the Seaside". I don't think she will mind if I use it for my winter collection! Here's a layout of my DH when he was a youngster in southern Minnesota in 1945:
http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=80785&cat=847

ballykissangel

03-07-2006, 08:35 PM

Winter Challenge Entry - I'm ready for spring now!

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=81529&cat=847

Second try with the kit I couldn't find. Almost identical layout but I used Meryl's WinterWonderland Kit for this one.

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=81642&cat=847

sempson

03-08-2006, 10:52 PM

Here is my layout for the WINTER theme. Thanks for looking!!

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=81770&cat=847

mamateri

03-10-2006, 10:50 PM

Here is my Heritage Water layout. I'm a real Newbie at this so I hope you can give me some helpful critisim. Since I don't have a printer that prints 12" wide I do all my digital scrapping on 8.5 x 11 paper.

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=82133&cat=847

This isn't currently what I consider to be Heritage pictures but it is "future" heritage material.

Thanks for looking.

Teri

Meryl

03-10-2006, 11:49 PM

We had a great chat this week, thanks so much to all who came along and joined in so enthusiastically! There were lovely LO's for last weeks theme - Winter and our winner was bentrd, you can see her lovely page here (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=81650&cat=847) - well done Maureen, your prize of a voucher for a page kit should be with you shortly!

The topic for this next week is "Water" - simply anything to do with water - boating, sailing, ships, swimming - anything water related, so a wide topic. Thanks lauraloub and mamateri, your LO's have set the ball rolling!

See you all next week - same time, same place :)

ballykissangel

03-14-2006, 12:33 PM

I almost forgot to put post this. Having major problems with the computer this week and not sure which end is up. Here my water entry:

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=82907

This is practically vintage it's from the late 60's!

flrebareba

03-14-2006, 02:37 PM

This is another one for My mothers book.

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=82025&cat=500&ppuser=39480

MaureenH

03-14-2006, 04:05 PM

I've also uploaded a layout for this challenge. http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=82886&cat=1049

jfricker

03-14-2006, 04:57 PM

I have uploaded my layout for the Wednesday night Heritage chat.
Our theme for the week is water.

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=82723&cat=847

honeymoon

03-15-2006, 02:59 AM

Here's my first go at a Heritage layout challenge - Water theme.

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=83041&nocache=1

I would love to join these chats but unfortunately I'm not home at the right time. I'll keep watching this forum list.

Meryl

03-15-2006, 03:37 AM

I would love to join these chats but unfortunately I'm not home at the right time. I'll keep watching this forum list.

Thanks so much for posting especially since you cannot actually join the chats! Look forward to more pages from you :)

sallyscrapper

03-15-2006, 03:54 AM

OK I did two layouts for this weeks challenge and a day before we are due!!!! No last minuter this time;)
Down By the River (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=82989&cat=500&ppuser=291)
and
Hair Washing Day (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=82990&cat=500&ppuser=291)

Meryl

03-15-2006, 03:57 AM

Wow Sally well done - before due date and whilst busy with DET too, VERY impressive :) Off to take a look right now :)

ballykissangel

03-15-2006, 04:25 AM

I originally intended to use these old photos but time and I don't seem to be able to get together lately and the other LO went up first. These are very old family photos. And two cat naps on the keyboard later, I finally finished it!

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=83042&nocache=1

webfrau

03-15-2006, 05:01 AM

I started working on this LO today thinking I had tomorrow to finish it off. I completely forgot that I'm not actually home tomorrow until about 10 minutes before the chat starts! So I hurriedly threw it together before I had to go out and now I'm quickly uploading before bed. So here is my water challenge.
http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=83073&cat=847

And no the photos haven't been stretched, I really was that fat as a baby!! :)

carti

03-15-2006, 10:57 AM

I thought we were suppose to use Heritage Kit that password was given last night?

webfrau

03-15-2006, 01:08 PM

No carti, that's for the HERITAGE NOW thread http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/forum/showthread.php?p=109561#post109561

Our challenge here was just a water themed heritage LO - any kit you like.

designshoppe1

03-15-2006, 02:06 PM

Here is one water themed layout:

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=83158&cat=847

Here is another water themed layout:

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=83157&cat=847

Kits used are from the Heritage Now collection.

ellen

03-15-2006, 06:41 PM

Water theme layout:
http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=83281&cat=847

designshoppe1

03-16-2006, 04:18 AM

4am

I logged in early for the Heritage Chat and then had to get my kids to bed, but I fell asleep too! I woke up a half hour ago and said (silently so as not to wake anyone), "I hope I can still read the chat."

I was SO EXCITED to see that I won the voting for this week's favorite layout! Did I say I am SO EXCITED? Thanks so much. I'm REALLY EXCITED.

So sorry I slept through it all. I'll try to work on this week's challenge and meet you next week... if I can stay awake.

I'm looking at the Smilies, none of them look sleepy.

sallyscrapper

03-16-2006, 05:09 AM

LOL..........:D We tried you wake you really we did !!!:eek: even kicked your chair!!!!! well done in winning this week......:)

MaureenH

03-17-2006, 08:19 PM

Congratulations. I have a heck of a time staying up for late for the chats so I know how you feel, but very exciting when you do find out.

flrebareba

03-19-2006, 03:58 PM

what is the theme this week I missed the chat and cant find out what it is? noone has posted one yet..

mamateri

03-19-2006, 04:09 PM

The theme this week is a "Heritage Recipe". It can be a recipe or food that has been passed down in your family, etc.

Teri

Meryl

03-21-2006, 09:42 PM

Gosh this has NOT been a good week for me - huge problems with internet connection and been away so I'm so late with this........

First congrats to designshoppe1 for your lovely page Timeless Fun (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=83158) - please email me (meryl@digitalscrapbookplace.com) with your "real" name, screen name, and email address and I will get the voucher for a page kit sent off to you asap.

This weeks theme is recipes, heritage recipes - there are a few in the gallery hope lots more coming soon :)

See you all Wednesday 10.00 p.m. EST

ballykissangel

03-22-2006, 01:14 AM

I too am having internet problems. DSL was out all day and my email is not coming in...missing more than I am getting but after being positive that I had already uploaded this and was ok, I discovered (DUH) that I hadn't! So here's our family recipe:

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=84566&nocache=1

webfrau

03-22-2006, 01:37 AM

I'm hoping to have a double LO with two recipes done - I've completed one page but the other I can't find the photos that I want. I think they're at my mothers house rather than here. I will be there tomorrow so I'm hoping to scan them then bring them home and finish the LO just before chat starts and upload both pages. Not sure what my chances are!

Meryl

03-22-2006, 01:50 AM

Look forward to your double page - good luck with the search :) Great to see your page Ballykissangel :)

ellen

03-22-2006, 03:06 PM

I need to work on this layout a little more but wanted to get it up in case any of you have leftover mince still in your fridge from the holidays (yikes, hope you don't!). I'm still waiting for Meryl's binding (hint hint!) to add to my recipe pages. Looking forward to tonight's chat.
http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=84654&cat=847

jfricker

03-22-2006, 08:06 PM

I just posted this weeks layout for Meryl's Heritage Chat.
You can see it at::)

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=84681&cat=847

webfrau

03-23-2006, 12:40 AM

Well I rushed home with my newly scanned photos - not the ones I was lookin for but acceptable substitutes. Hurriedly finished the LO, rushed into the chat room then had that feeling that something was not right!!!
You've no idea how annoyed I was to realise that because daylight saving has ended here, we put our clocks back at the weekend and I missed the chat. I was an hour too late! This means that I won't be coming to Heritage chat again until either you change your clocks or it's next summer for us!
You'll have to be good about posting the next challenge for the week.

I uploaded my two recipes anyway:

Bonfire Night p1: Parkin (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=84737)
Bonfire Night p2: Treacle Toffee (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=84736&nocache=1)

Meryl

03-23-2006, 02:15 AM

So very sorry webfrau, this daylight saving does cause all sorts of grief LOL - for me it is dreadful because in mid winter I have to get up an hour earlier...... so it will be about 3.45a.m that I will have to set my alarm! Off to see your pages, thanks for posting :)

webfrau

03-23-2006, 02:29 AM

OMG Meryl - now that's what I call real dedication.

Meryl

03-23-2006, 03:14 AM

We had a lovely big and lively crowd at this weeks Chat, thank you so much those who came along and shared. Well done to Ballykissangel for winning a page kit voucher this week for her lovely page Grandpa Gustafson's Recipe for Swedish "Pancake" (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=84566&cat=847)

The topic for next weeks challenge is Music - anything to do with music - may be your family has talent and instruments but maybe not - then singing, lyrics - use your imagination and lets see your lovely pages in the Our Heritage Gallery (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showgallery.php?cat=847)

See you all next week!

honeymoon

03-23-2006, 05:04 AM

Just got too busy this week, but here's mine for the food challenge too.

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=84774&cat=847

jfricker

03-23-2006, 06:11 AM

We change our clocks next month, going ahead an hour. I think that will help you won't it? I sure hope so. Great layouts!!!!!!

LauraLou

03-25-2006, 09:52 AM

I know, I have been whining for "music" for several weeks so I had better have something. The first is a mysterious instrument DH's Dad had under his bed. I mentioned having played an "auto harp" and he thought this was one. Well it isn't. Through some detective work on the web I discovered it is a ZITHER. There is most of a book with it but it is in German. Also some German sheet music. All of the papers are in a big envelope postmarked "1937". It looks like you are playing a guitar with your left hand and a piano with your right little finger while strumming with the rest of your fingers.
http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=84838&cat=500&ppuser=891
The other layout is of Roman's grandfather's clarinet and the Sundays of music he remembers as a child visiting his grandparent's houses.
http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=84912&cat=500&ppuser=891
There may be more to come if we can get to the other instruments at his dad's apartment.

loonyhiker

03-26-2006, 09:03 PM

Here is the story about my accordion and me.

Music in My Life (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=85338&cat=847)

mamateri

03-26-2006, 09:24 PM

I'm not at all musically inclined but the words to a relatively new country song always makes me think of those who died to young. My youngest aunt, Helen, was killed in the worst school explosion in the history of the United States. She wasn't quite 17 so the words,

"It ain't fair; you died too young,
Like the story that had just begun,
But death tore the pages all away.
God knows how I miss you.
All the hell I've been through,
Just knowin' no-one could take your place.
An' sometimes I wonder
WHO'D YOU BE TODAY?"

seem to fit this picture and story so well.