Hi everyone and welcome back to the Couture Creations blog today
its Adriana here again and I am sharing a layout created with the 
New Release
"LEST WE FORGET" Collection of papers 
with coordinating stamps and dies.

The photograph is a very special one of my Maternal Grandfather, 

he was positioned in Northern Africa 

fighting for the Italian army in World War 2 around 1941- 1942. This photograph is a very treasured one from my family history.  The Italian army in the war positioned calvary soldiers in Tunisia, Africa.  My grandfather had to go but he didn't want to, he had no choice.  If you look closer to towards the pocket of his military jacket coat, there is a photograph in his pocket, it is of his family taken just after my mother was born. It was to little momento for him of his wife (my Grandmother and at that stage his three young children). So this photography was taken in Tunisia while on duty, someone developed these photos and he wrote to his wife during his time away from his family.  He returned back from his military duties and later years had another 4 children. 

These papers are just perfect for this photograph and I plan to create some more with them for my family history pages - I just love the poppy flowers , great for fuzzy cutting. :)

I layered the flowers on top of each other to give a 3D effect ..  

The page in full - 1941 - We will Remember 



Firstly,  taking the reverse side paper of
CO727706 Sheet 7 Lest We Forget paper 12 x 12 
and trimming it to 23cm x 23cm, adhering it some black card stock 12 x 12.

Stamping the Lest We Forget Growing Together mini stamp CO727695
around  the edges and colouring in the poppy flowers with ink colour and wet Brush.







Matting my photograph with several different card stock and papers (3 in total)

Adding a strip of poppies from the CO727676  Sheet 2 
Lest We Forget paper  12x 12 to the top of page, as shown.




Fussy cutting several of the flowers from 
CO727706 Lest We Forget paper sheet 7 and also
  some stamped images from the mini stamp 
CO727692 Lest We Forget Poppy Leaves,

and cutting some of the following
Lest We Forget Mini die - Standing Poppies CO727682
Lest We Forget Mini die - We Will Remember CO727688
Lest We Forget mini die - The Cross CO727687

Also from the STEAMPUNK DREAMS Collection 
CO727712 Distressed Tag die 

Chipboard numbers CO726242 




Creating a cluster of the flowers and leaves and arranging them at the bottom left hand side of the page. 






Arranging all the pieces as shown in the photographs













Thanks for stopping by
stay safe and stay healthy

Until next time - Happy Crafting :)