Hi, this is Joy with today's Heritage layout which details my great-grandmother's journey to America. I have always wanted to make this layout as family history is so important.
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The paper used is from SEI, the Juliette line, that we are featuring this week. I cut the Journey word art at 2" and the silhouettes on either side are also cut at 2". I flipped the right hand side one to make it more symmetrical.
I cut the ship using Fit to Page and it worked out perfectly for the bottom section of the page.
The journaling tells the story of my great-grandmother's long trip to America. When she was a young girl, her mother sent her out to get a hot dog, a special treat that she rarely had. When she got back home, everyone was gone and there was a note. The rest of the family (mother, father and siblings) had left for America. They had left her behind! She was around 10 years old. She was to go live with relatives, who ended up being very cruel to her, inflicting scars in her hairline that my grandmother noticed years later. Eventually, at the age of 21, she was able to come to America and be reunited with her family. I can't even imagine this scenario and my heart breaks when I think of it. She did have a happy marriage and was a wonderful woman, despite this difficult and heartbreaking childhood.
Onto happier subjects...
Today, join us on a blog hop where we will be giving away all kinds of fun prizes in celebration of the CHA (Craft and Hobby Association) Convention that we are flying to today! Start at Obsessed with Scrapbooking, then journey onto Courtney Lane Designs and onto Creative Critters Cricut Club. We have an exciting reveal planned for you so if you don't immediately see the Blog Hop post, check back! It will be worth your while!
477 comments:
«Oldest ‹Older 1 – 200 of 477 Newer› Newest»Oh my gosh!! I am number one!! Love the layout. Our heritage is so important. TFS
Interesting layout. Nice look for a heritage page. This cartridge is new to me. I need to take a closer look.
What a sad story with a happy ending. Love the layout. Now I know I need this cart! Thanks.
This is a beautiful layout. Our history is important.
Oh my gosh. I cannot imagine how you leave your child behind! Oh my! Good for you documenting it!
Very interesting story. Nice job on the layout
What a lovely LO :)).
Wow! What an interesting story & thanks for sharing it with us. I'm glad you showed us how to use fit to page - I'm still experimenting with all the E functions.
Great LO!
Oh! I want that heritage cart....I love the images!!!!!!
Oh my goodness what a story! How could they have left her!!!
What a great heritage page. Wonderfully done!
What a touching story! It is nice to hear that your grandmother had a fulfilling adulthood after such a sad youth. Thanks for sharing your story and layout. Enjoy your trip!
I LOVE that font! I REALLY, REALLY want that cartridge. It will definitely be my next purchase!
What a heartbreaking story! But what amazing to put it in a layout like that, so your family heritage is beeing kept for many future family relatives! Thank you so much for sharing.
Before this LO I never thought I wanted this cart; now I need it.
Thank you for sharing your Grandma's story.
Beautiful layout documenting your family history... Definitely will have to get this cartridge!
Groetjes Ellen
The papers selected have a beautiful hue to them. Love the heritage layout.
Thank you for sharing the story of your Grandmother. These are definitely things to document of one's life.
The paper works beautifully with the layout. I can't imagine what that must have been like for your great-grandmother.
Nice layout! Family history is so important.
I'm really loving the SEI paper this week. Have fun at CHA.
A beautiful layout. So sad about your great-grandmother but so wonderful that she overcame it.
Nice layout. Thanks for sharing!
Love the layout and thank you for sharing.
Joann
joannmarch
Very nice page and what a heartbreaking story with you great-grandmother. Good that it ended well. Where did your great- grandmother come from?
Have not seen this cart before. Great page - so important to preserve the pst.
What a wonderful tribute to your great-grandmother. Isn't it amazing what older generations went through to get us to where we are today? The ship from "Heritage" is great on this page. I think the color you chose for it works very well and doesn't let the size overwelm the picture. Thank you so much for the inspiration.
jennydecuir@hotmail.com
This will probably be my favorite cartridge. I love working on my family tree. I can see so many future projects with it. It would be great to win it.
What a sad story; so glad for a happy ending & a great layout to document it! TFS.
Great LO, love heritage albums and have never had the opportunity to work on or do one. Thanks for sharing the LO and the memory.
I look forward to exploring this cartridge. The layout is wonderful.
I love this page, i still have all my grandparents photos to scrap , how cool would this cart be to have to do this.
PennyG cricut mb
Very nice layout. It is important to preserve the history of the family. This will sound funny but thank you for explaining what CHA stands for...I have heard the term many times before and know it is a big deal but I never knew what it stood for. Enjoy your time at the show. Can't wait to see all the new things coming our way!!
Love your tribute layout and story of your grandmother. Enjoy CHA this year! Thanks for sharing.
Great layout.
Oh Joy, your Great-Grandmother's story made me tear up. What a lovely layout to honor a Woman who although faced with such adversity and sadness early on, went on to have a wonderful life. Thank you so much for sharing your story.
Hugs
Lisa
What a hard, sad beginning to life your grandmother had. I am glad she was eventually able to come to America and had a good marriage. The layout is beautiful!
Love the layout. I've heard this story repeated several times. I can't imagine leaving a child behind.
I forgot to add, this is definitely the cart I need to have, as I have so many photos that my Mother left me when she passed. But, even if I don't buy the cart soon, I still need to get going on this project, as my Mom was our families genealogist, and the stories, not as compelling as your Great Grands, but still, deserve a place in my scrapbooks, thank you for the inspiration to start planning this album, and get the photos out of the box and in an album for my family to enjoy.
Lisa
I love the inking on the layout!! Really gives that aged look that you are looking for in a heritage layout! Super Job!
I need to get this cart... I've been working on scrapping all my mother's old photographs (I gave her the partially finished scrapbook for Christmas so that she could journal in things I didn't know).... she was so thrilled to see our family history in photographs! It is something I hope my grandsons will treasure when they are older too! I love your layout...great inspiration for upcoming pages!
That is such a great idea, I have always wanted to that for my grand parents photos. Nice layout. Thank you for sharing that with us!
That is beautiful, such a nice way to preserve family keepsakes for future generations to see and easily understand.
This page is so awesome. I love the idea! I want to see more from this cartridge. It looks like it is a great one!!
The layout is wonderful and your story was heartreaking to me. Who would take their other children and leave behind a 10 yr old? It is very sad!
The layout is wonderful and your story was heartreaking to me. Who would take their other children and leave behind a 10 yr old? It is very sad!
I love this layout. What an interesting bit of history to document for future generations.
That is so awesome. Absolutely Love it!
The page is wonderful, but the story it tells is amazing. I can't even begin to imagine how your Great grandmother must have felt.
Wow! What a story and what a fantastic way to present it! Love the layout.
Have a super duper time at CHA!!
wonderful page !!!thanks for the great idea. millierose651@aol.com
It's so great to document your heritage so that your children and your children's children could know where they came from. Love it.
WOW...your layout is just gorgeous. How awesome to be the keeper of your heritage.
Trish
Love how seeing these vintage layouts pull at your heart strings. Beautiful.
So happy that everything worked out for your family:) Would love to do a heritage scrapbook for my grandma! She would love it!
What a beautiful layout. It's nice to seem something done that is actually vintage instead of faked.
I am working on a heritage book now--and the stories of those before us are so important for those to know after us. I like the fit to page boat--and I am super excited to see what you three have planned on this bolg hop--travel safe!
Great layout!
I love this cratridge. It has a lot of interesting shapes. I hope I win this one, I have some great ideas and would use this one often! SKirkham@triad.rr.com
Keeping pieces of history for your family is a very important task. Melanie, you did this with such style and I love the layout. This cartridge is a must. So is this paper! Thanks for sharing.
Have funny at CHA! Can't wait to see what goes on there, and to start the blog hop.
Sue
I love it. I think that the old photos are my favorite to scrapbook.
Love this layout and this cart! I have so many old pics from my grandmother that need to be in a scrapbook.
Thanks for sharing your story! It has a beautiful ending!
cynthia@devoll.net
Nice LO, I love learning all the great old family stories, thank you for sharing yours with us.
Have fun this weekend.....
Touching story and glad your grandmother had a happy ending. The layout is perfect. Thanks for sharing.
Lisa
I really like this layout. You are very lucky to have photo's like this. We lost all of our photos in a fire so I'll never be able to capture those memories in a scrapbook. Wonderful work.
Pam
Very cool! Thanks!
I'm so glad you are capturing the heritage of your family. The silver color for the ship is perfect. This paper with the Heritage Cartridge is perfect. I've enjoyed your work this week.
Wow how sad for your grandmother. I can't imagine what this would do to a 10 year old, any child any age. I am so glad it turned out good for her but so sorry about the pain and suffering this child had to endure. I would love the heritage cartridge or anything new as far as paper crafting is concerned. WOW
Wonderful layout. I love heritage pages.
Love the layout and thank you for the opportunity to win this wonderful cartridge.
doe.wood@cox.net
What a sad story; great layout, thanks for sharing.
Your layout is priceless. The
heritage cartridge is wonderful,
great for making all types of
vintage, heirloom projects.
Thanks for sharing your story,
so glad your great grandma had
a wonderful life after all she went
through.
-Maryellen
what a story! takes alot of strength to overcome hurt of that magnitude. What a amazing woman she must have been... thank you for sharing you great layout and touching story
I love the simplicity of the layout that lets the story be the spotlight-did they ever tell her why they left her behind?? What an amazing woman she must have been!
Wonderful layout and thanks for sharing!
tjones_2000@yahoo.com
WOW!! I can not imagine how she must have felt returning and finding all of the family gone!!! She had to be a wonderful women to be able to re-connect with family after all that..Thanks for sharing your story with us and what an honor you have made to her.. Now generations to come will know this story!! Awesome!! I love the layout.really neat and goes so well with the tribute!! Well done!
{;o) Love my Gypsy and that beautiful family story!! Sadness to happiness!! What an American Dream!!
Love hertitage layouts. The photos are always so unbelievable. Thanks for sharing your layout and story. Love the paper collection
I have been wanting to scrapbook family history too so I need the Heritage cart!
Such a sad childhood, but a great-looking layout to document the story. Love the icons you used from the cartridge...Heritage has been next on my list of purchases since I saw it.
Renee
What a beautiful way to honor your great-grandmother. Well done!
OMG, how awful, it sounds like it could be a movie, at least with a happy ending for her. TFS and love the cartridge and the story.
Theresa Kelly
mccadesmom@gmail.com
Oh wonderful.. I enjoy genealogy myself.. so this would be great to have.. thnx for sharing some history with us about your great-grandmother..
This is a beautiful page; well done as usual!
Wow, what a story and the LO is simple enough to not take away from that.
love love love this layout. i would love to see more of these kinds of layouts you have done. i am so excited i am waiting on my heritage cart to come in the mail.
michele
tishy34@hotmail.com
A precious & heart wrenching layout. Everyone in your family will want it
My Goodness!
What a story. Can you imagine the
bewilderment she felt!
Anyway. What a great page. I love
scrapbooking!
I read every day and make a comment. Someday I will WIN!!! I do not have this cartridge but love and use all I have. What did we do without the Cricut. I think every school in America should have at least one per school!
What a sad story, but so glad it ended well. I love to read the history of people. What a wonderful layout.
Jean
What a great page. I am also making a "Hero" page of my grandparents because of their battles with cancer and they have always been such wonderful role models to me! Thanks for sharing her story-God Bless Her.
Simple but yet cute and unique. love it! <3
What a great idea! I love the layout!
Very nice layout.
Love to have the heritage cartridge. It would work well with some genealogy work I would like to do. thanks
I really love the LO - I so want to start scrapping some about my heritage even though so much is missing in terms of pictures and stories (my sister and I are doing lots of on-line geneology research) - this cart would be so helpful! AND, how brave was your grandmother!!!!!
Jackie
That is so sad! Did she ever find out why they left her behind? It is a beautiful layout. Lynn
lynnrenee2@yahoo.com
Great layout. I know your family will treaure it.
Very neat layout! I love family history and wish I could learn more about mine!
Amy V
I really need the heritage cartridge I am so into family history. Thanks for sharing your family with us.
what a story! Love the page.....
Angie C.
angiec_73@yahoo.com
Love the layout and the story!
This is a very nice layout. I got teary reading your journaling, how sad. I am glad that she had a happy outcome. What a great treasure you have made for your family! Thank you for sharing this with me :)
Cindy
costapuck@yahoo.com
Yes our history is important. Thanks for sharing your story with us. Hey have a wonderful and fun time at CHA. I so want this cartridge since it came out. I really do!! Thanks Joy, Cindy
Your great-grandmother must have been one curageous little girl, I can't even imagine. The layout is fabulous and since I have been researching my own families heritage I do believe this cart is going to be a must have. Thanks Joy
CindyM
WOW ... what a lovely memory page Joy. It's a heart breaking story, but you captured it beautifully. How wonderful to have this pic and make this great page to share the story for your family and the generations yet to come. Knowing our heritage is a blessing, and a part of who we are today.
Hugz,
♥Carol♥
Love the layout, thanks for sharing.
This would be great for my family tree project, it looks fantastic.
WOW what a story to tell!! Glad her life turned around for her!
What a wonderful way to honor your great grandmother. I love this layout.
I am working on one of those albums also and wish I had stories to go with the photos. All my grandparents were gone before I was born. That was an unbelievable thing to happen to your grandmother!! So interesting and heartbreaking. Love the LO
Great heritage layout.
Beautiful! History is very important.
that is some story about your Great Grandmother,I cannot even imagine leaving one of my children behind.
(chocked up!)
very nice layout of her, happy for her adult life.
Carol<><
This story brought tears to my eyes for such sadness but a smile to my face for such a happy ending. Thanks for sharing a part of your life with us in such a beautiful layout. I love how you made it look so antiquish... is that a word? lol
Thanks
Darlene-Joy
Wow, I can't imagine them leaving her behind! The layout is great.
Brandy Baucom
Wow, what an amazing post and story of your great grandmother. All 4 of mygrandparents came over from Germany through Ellis Island and this would be a great layout to share their story in my scrapbook.
Terrific Joy, you are doing what I need to do, and you did a awesome job. I am just waiting for M's to get this cart. Have fun at CHA
Donna
Wow.. Thanks for sharing that story. Love the layout. I would love to get the Heritage cartride. Enjoy CHA ! Bring your umbrella..
This story was so sad. I love the layout. I just got this cartridge and can't wait to work on my heritage scrapbooks. I already finished one and want to go back to redo some pages.
Very classy layout. And what a story!
Love your layout, great job!!
Tina
what a wonderful way to keep your heritage alive. Sad story but I am glad that your great grandmother found her way to america and love.
Very clever
What a heart breaking story. That ship turned out fabulous. Now I think I need to buy this cartridge :)
angelschafer@gmail.com
That is a great layout. I want to do some about my grandparents now.
tbeard
tdbeardslee@gmail.com
What a beautiful LO. She must have been a very strong lady. I too feel it's very important to remember the stories of your heritage. Thanks for sharing.
Very nice layout and story!
What a wonderful l/o. I love how you journaled the "not so wonderful" part of life.
oh how very nostalgic, I love it. Thanks for sharing.
StefanieH
chrisandstef@sympatico.ca
wow, what a story to share. love the big ship & the title. great page.
What a great story to have recorded. Our history is so important.
Thanks for sharing,
Donna
It is so interesting to learn about our heritage. Thanks for sharing her story. Great layout.
That is such a sad story, but so interesting to pass on.
debsusee@yahoo.com
What a great page. Sad story though can't believe they did that. Thank you for sharing! skzkelly
Very interesting story. i like that you are keeping history alive in a scrapbook
missy K.
What a special layout.
trafalconer@yahoo.com
How wonderful it is that you know such a story of your family's heritage. This is a wonderful tribute to your great grandmother. Thanks for sharing your wonderful layout and the story that is behind it.
CHA sounds so fun. I love the heritage cart. Great layout. The ones that tug at your heartstrings are the best
Great layout! Great cart to scrap family history. Thanks for sharing.
sueot33@yahoo.com
Great layout, love hearing,seeing and talking about history of any kind!TFS! Love it!
sgute61@yahoo.com
That story is incredible.
So glad for the happy ending, the layout is perfect with the journaling.
very touching story! i wonder what would drive a family to leave one member behind. Such a sad thing, but glad it worked out in the end!
LOVE the big ship and the title!
Beautiful LO,it is so important to document our history too.
-Gabi from Savannah, TX
this is fantastic! LOVE!!!! this LO and the story gave me CHILLS!!!!
Nice page!
Jackie's Mom
lakejustit@earthlink.net
wow, this is so great. What a story!
Wish I could be at CHA again, sure hope to get to go in Chicago. Have a blast! I don't think one could have anything other than that there!
Stephanie Meadows
I just ordered the Heritage cart. Can't wait to get it!
Great Layout I love the idea of showing your heritage.
A Person
da4persons@hotmail.com
Love the layout.
Bridget
Love the LO Joy such a great story although sad!
Beautiful layout and amazing story!!! Love the silhouettes at the top and the inking looks great with your picture.
Brandi
brandiadams77@gmail.com
I love your layout!! That would be the perfect cartridge for my heritage. I have so many family members that came from third world countries with stories exactly like yours!
I homeschool my children and we are studying about our family heritage and where they came from. This cartridge would be perfect for our school project!!
Nice layout to offset such a heartbreaking story.
This is great for heritage pages.
Where we come from and what we go through make us what who we are....Love the layout.
What a story, and so important to share with our posterity. Very nice job Joy. Thank you for sharing that information from your own family history. It's inspiring!
Great job. History for the future generation.
Love the layout.
What a story, my husband grandmother had tickets to board the Titanic and for some reason they missed the boat. Wow. Love the layout. shirley at grmagrpa@live.com
I love anything to do with family history. The page came out great.
faith
rishannon2@cox.net
I have been wanting to start my heritage album for years. Seeing your layout and reading that heartwrenching story makes me want to start today!!! Thanks for the inspiration Joy!
A sad story but with a happy outcome. It is wonderful that you captured this bit of family history in your scrapbook. Can't wait for the blog hop.
Your LO and story were touching. We are all blessed by the sacrifice others made so we were able to be here. TFS
what a great idea to do a heritage page... love it!
I want to know why they left her behind?
What a heartbreaking story. I don't know who was more cruel; Her parents for tricking and leaving her or the Aunt and Uncle who were abusive.
What a touching story Joy. this layout is perfect to tell her story. xxD
What a story, thanks for sharing. This cart is a must have as I've been working on our families heritage album. Thank you for the inspiration.
What a touching layout. I can't imagine it. So great you have your history and your documenting it. Have a great time at CHA
tina gale
Love the layout.
Helen from Flower Mound
I wanted to get started on a heritage album maybe if I win this it will help be get started.
Lori H.
Wow! Thanks for sharing your great-grandmother's story. Very nice layout. I need to check out that cart!
Jenna
ladybug0406@gmail.comq
Great Heritage page. Ilove to distress all my pages. Twila
This is a great lo but such a sad story, glad it had a happy ending. TFS
Good for you for documenting your Great-grandmother's story. Our family history - even the sad parts - is so important. It's who we are! And what a beautiful way to do it. Love the layout - plan to "copy" it! Thanks! Shane
Very pretty layout. What an inspiring story. TFS!
Just love the large ship, it would be perfect for my cruise pictures. Thanks for the inspiration
thanks for the links to the other blogs. I'm gonna check them out.
nice look, i like it
Nice layout. Enjoy CHA. Thanks for the give aways.
Love your heritage layout! Nice idea.
judy.menard@yahoo.com
what a perfect layout for your subject! Very nice
Can hardly wait to get doing our family history- this is so inspiring.
What a sad story! Love your layout. Now I'm going to do the blog hop.
Joy, What a story, poor woman. I'm glad it has a happy ending.... Love your layout. I have to have this cart. Shari (cricutrookie)
I hope to get this cart soon as I agree about the importace of family history.
Thanks for sharing your story and I can't imagine how it would have been to leave one of your children behind when moving!
You did a great job on your historical LO. It is important for us to preserve our history. Have a great week at CHA.
Kathryn
This is so nice.
Nice layout! TFS!
I love this page, I have researched my family, and just may have to do my pages over, love this cartridge JSharer417
What a wonderful layout! I haven't seen the Heritage cartridge yet, so it's nice to see different things it can do.
I am always so envious of those that have photos of their grandparents. Mine are so very limited. This is the reason that I try so hard to take lots of photos for children. Love this layout... I'm just really jealous!
Wonderful layout and history for your family- My son had to do a report last year 3rdgrade on where their ancestors came from and it was great for the kids to see and also parents to enjoy at a "worldfest" evening. My parents have lots of old photos that I will get and be able to do a heritage album. Hopefully during the cold weather they are writing down who is who in the pics (all in old pic albums - thankfully. OK TMI - Have fun at CHA and thanks for the blog hop! Hawksteammom@gmail.com
I love this layout,i haven't tried
scrapbooking yet,but now I think I
will try.
Linda W
ljunewall@hotmail.com
I love the silhouettes! They are gorgeous. That's why I was so excited about ACY and now Heritage. I have to get this cart!! Lovely LO!!
Great layout and what a way to capture the story. I haven't looked to closely at this cartridge, but now I have to rethink that!
Very cute layout.....I love it!!!I need this cartridge for sure!
penbrandy@msn.com
What a lovely tribute to your grandmother,its a lovely page. I'm waiting for my cart to come, maybe today. Dee at ed0946@ptd.net
This is why we all scrapbook...our history and passing it down to future generations. What a wonderful way to celebrate her life! Thank you for the inspiration!
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