Kraft+ DT July - Memories

Hello again Scrappy Friends, welcome, today I'm sharing a post for 

Kraft+

So, for this challenge you must use roses on your creation...but in three different ways!
eg.: stamp of a rose, a stencil of a rose and a photo of a rose
or you may choose to use
a rose flair, washi tape with a rose pattern and a rose flower embellishment.
using any medium you like and any combination you like or any embellishment you like.. but there must be roses used Three DIFFERENT WAYS on your creation .
**Please let us know the three different ways you used roses when you upload your entry. 

I've used Fussy cut roses, a background of roses, a rose stencil and rose chipboard.

The pretty papers are from Kaisercraft, the High Tea collection. 

The background paper is "Tea leaves"

The fussy cut roses are from "Devonshire"

The stencil is by Tim Holtz THS075. 

I used acrylic paints on the gorgeous rose frame from Scrapmatts. 

I've tried a different medium through the stencil - It's from Liquitex, flexible modeling paste. It's so smooth and creamy and glides on beautifully.

The journalling is on the back of the page and it reads:-

This photo is of my Maternal Grandmother, Catherine Harriet.  I only knew her as an older woman and then not intimately, as she died of Breast Cancer, when I was eight years old.

She was born in 1884 and was a Dressmaker by trade.  She married a farmer, William Ryan, at Undayla, near Auburn, South Australia, in 1912. 

They had nine children. The oldest living child, was my Mother. Sadly their first born child James, died at 3 years of age from diarrhoea after eating green grapes. 

With all those mouths to feed it was a frugal existence; they ate what they grew, or traded with the neighbours if they had an excess of something seasonal.  

I can't imagine how exhausted she must have felt preparing meals, washing and ironing by hand, sewing and mending clothes, supervising homework, feeding babies, changing nappies, growing vegetables, milking the cow, feeding the chooks; all without running water, 

electricity or any appliances.  

My Mother told me they had rammed earth floors with rag rugs scattered about to keep out the cold and slept three children top to toe in a single bed.  If you were last one in, you got the squishy spot in the middle next to the other two kid's toes.  Along with many others of that era, Grandmother were made do with very little.

I often think of her, if I'm tempted to get grumpy when the power goes off, 

or our electricity or water bills are too high. 

Catherine would be amazed at the totally different world that her descendants live in.

Photo taken Circa 1902

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