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wvasweetness
10-07-2009, 11:10 PM
My mission over the past year has been to scan in as many family photos as possible - photos from both sides of my family AND my DH's. I've spent lots of time with grandparents, great-grandparents, aunts and uncles, cousins, etc. collecting photos to scan and sitting with people to document who is in each photo, when and where it was taken, etc.

I finally finished my 12-month long project this past weekend and I now have hundreds (thousands!) of photos scanned and documented. I got them all backed up and have started sorting them according to pics I want to keep vs. pics I want to scrap. I have pics ranging from my childhood to pics of my great-great-granparents.

I'd really like to get started - I figure if I scrap about 2 pages per week from these old photos, I will have 100 pages finished by this time next year. But today while I was sorting through pics, I realized that I've never scrapped an old photo. Heck, the "oldest" pic I've ever scrapped was from 2006! LOL! While I've pumped out a lot of LOs since then, they've all been new/current pics.

To be honest, I don't really like LOs that look "antique." So now I'm kind of lost on even getting started on scrapping these pics. I don't think I'll have a problem scrapping my childhood pics, but the older pics are what I'm stumped on.

I've been going through galleries and bookmarking inspiration pages, but am looking for any other tips/advice. Kit suggestions, any LOs that might serve as inspiration, photo treatment suggestions, etc...

Spanx girls! :p

BrattyMeg
10-07-2009, 11:21 PM
Look at Paula's gallery..she does amazing LOs with older photos using current kits

4noisyboys
10-08-2009, 12:54 AM
I'm not a huge fan of heritage looking layouts, but it is hard when you are using photos that might be 60 years plus years old.

Here are a few that I've done. Some I love, and some are older and I might do something different with them if I were to rescrap them. I put together a book for my parents (and gave copies to my siblings) and they had old photos and then I asked my parents questions and added them to the pages.

Just remember....I scrapped some of these several years ago!! LOL!!

https://www.sweetshoppecommunity.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=91116&ppuser=2548
https://www.sweetshoppecommunity.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=87550&ppuser=2548
https://www.sweetshoppecommunity.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=86275&ppuser=2548
http://www.digishoptalk.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=173646&cat=all&ppuser=2907
http://www.digishoptalk.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=162302&cat=all&ppuser=2907
http://www.digishoptalk.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=232656&cat=all&ppuser=2907
http://www.digishoptalk.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=232655&cat=all&ppuser=2907
http://www.digishoptalk.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=208795&cat=all&ppuser=2907

Stacey42
10-08-2009, 07:42 AM
I've got several in my gallery. I have photos from 1898 through 1998 scanned with a bulk of them in 1928-48. Some of them are even hand tinted. I use a lot of the tattered & worn frames for them because the frames they were in didn't scan well or they were frameless. I like kits with a faded look in earth tones for my older photos

https://www.sweetshoppecommunity.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=101680&ppuser=133
https://www.sweetshoppecommunity.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=100988&ppuser=133
https://www.sweetshoppecommunity.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=100296&ppuser=133
https://www.sweetshoppecommunity.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=100982&ppuser=133
https://www.sweetshoppecommunity.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=14439&ppuser=133
https://www.sweetshoppecommunity.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=100296&ppuser=133