#THROWBACK THURSDAY

THURSDAY, 5 MARCH, 2015

Today I am sharing a themed kit layout from 2005 in carrying on with my #Throwback Thursday series. This layout documents the time my dad spent in the U.S. Air Force. I had received copies of some old black & white photos of my Dad from my Mom at the time and wanted to create a layout to commemorate them.

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I was not one to use themed kits in my scrapbooking back then although I know they were quite popular. (Not the case nowadays, now I love a good kit!) I guess I always felt like I wanted to create my own design or theme for the layout of my pages. Plus I also felt like a kit could be restrictive or even in some ways, intimidating.  

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In addition, I felt that anything that wasn't used in the initial project would be wasted. I know that it could potentially be used in other projects but if it was a theme that you didn't use very often, then what was left over would just go to waste. With being a budget scrapper it wasn't something that I easily reconciled with. 

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As mentioned in the start of my post this two page layout documents the time that my father spent in the United States Air Force in the early 50's. I wanted to find something that had a military theme to it. 

This kit was by Karen Foster and contained mostly stickers or sticker embellishments plus a couple sheets of themed paper. It pushed me a bit to work outside of my creative comfort zone.   

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As you can see here, in this close up, there is one of my favorite techniques at the time - paper tearing and also chalking!  I also used paper tearing on the title but no distressing. I used some patterned paper that would suit that time - Western Union telegram paper and sepia paper with pictures of military vehicles. Along with another patterned paper that looked like a snippet from a handwritten love letter. 

I love the Egyptian style borders on the old black and white photographs! It gave the photos such a different feel than modern day photos.

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The left page

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The right page

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The full layout 

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