Sorry for not posting any Three for Thursday yesterday. I have been busy working on this project for my grandmother, who we call Nonna Nina. She has Alzheimer’s and is moving to assisted living this weekend. My mom found some old photos at her house and asked me to make something for the 8×10″ shadow box that hangs outside her new place, so I got to work.

This is first scrapbook-like thing I have ever worked on, and it took a tremendous amount of time. Choosing the photos alone was difficult because I didn’t want to cut them up too much, but I also wanted to display a good balance of the people in Nonna’s life. And thus, I have a new respect for scrapbookers. I swear I could have made all my Christmas cards in the time it took me to do this…but it was so worth it. I love how this came out.

All the stamping for this project was done using Papertrey Ink’s Love Lives Here set, along with the coordinating die cuts. The houses were stamped using Pebble and Blush ink from A Muse Studio. I think glittered some Raspberry Fizz cardstock and attached it to the back of each house so the hearts would show through the little windows. I cut some extra hearts for the top of the page as well; I love how the glitter tones down the boldness of the Raspberry Fizz cardstock. I also diecut some clouds using PTI’s cloud dies; I used their Vintage Cream cardstock and dry embossed them with the Linen impression plate.

In case your wondering, I chose these three photos because the top photo is a picture of Nonna with my grandfather, Nonno. The photo on the bottom right is a shot of her with my mom and her two brothers. The photo on the bottom left is a photo of Nonna (back row, in the middle) with her mom and sisters and a niece - and that’s me in my great-grandmother’s, Nonna Santa’s, lap.