unbroken chain

welcome everyone to this week's fabulous authentique and may arts blog hop. 

we are all providing inspiring mother's day themed projects this week. 

i decided to celebrate the women in my family - my unbroken chain of mothers and daughters beginning with my great grandmother

johanna larson 

her daughter was marion cronander, 

who was the mother of marilyn laskey,

whose daughter is janeen vitalie

who is the mother of sicily shember  

whose daughter someday will be a mother...

happy mother's day! i hope you have been inspired to create your own unbroken chain 

whether mothers and daughters ~ fathers and sons

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materials used

"gathering" collection from authentique

ribbons and trims from may arts

bits of this and that

love

Unbroken Chain

I wanted to make something really special for my mom for Mother's Day. My mom is totally into genealogy and has pictures of our family dating back to my great-great-great-grandparents. Since this was a Mother's Day gift, I decided to focus on the chain of mothers and daughters in our family.

This piece is built from chipboard panels covered in cardstock that was distressed and inked. Accents include micro beads, scraps of lace and buttons. I used a fern leaf and gold paint to make the gold prints, and then added the leaf itself to the cover. Repeated on each panel is "mother" and "daughter" because each woman in the piece has been both, except for my daughter at the very end. But of course she will be a mother one day too.