Saturday 21 July 2012

Childhood memories

The theme for this month's postcard swap on UK Stampers is "childhood".

If anybody picked a random day in my childhood and took a peek, they'd probably see a little girl with slightly red hair, pale skin and her nose in a book. I'd be surprised if there were many days that didn't involve reading somewhere along the line.

So I picked one of my favourite Crafty Secrets stamps and, inspired by a memory of a make-over by Sophie LaFontaine, I turned the little boy into a little girl!

I started with a page from a story book stuck to some card and lightly covered with gesso. There's a local business that sells packs of paper ephemera, mostly pages resuced from books that are not fit to be sold on in their entirety - this is a page from one of those packs.

The wording and swirls are stamped directly onto the page, the little reader was stamped, coloured, cut out and stuck on. I used watercolour crayons to add some background colour in the doodled circle - I thought the colour could represent the colourful world of the imagination bringing the words to life.

Stamps:
Story of Me (Clear Art Stamps by Crafty Secrets)
Big Inspiration and Storybook (both CHF, retired)
Paper: Book page and smooth white
Ink: Brilliance by Tsukineko (Graphite Black)
Other:
Copic markers
Gesso
Neocolour II watersoluble pastels
Corner Chomper

Thanks for stopping by!

7 comments:

Christine said...

That's a lovely postcard! I hope it comes my way....

Kath said...

It's lovely, Joanne. That would suit my childhood too. I had to wait until I was 7 to join the library! :)

Dawn said...

What a lovely card Joanne, defo with you on the reading theme, lol my house is stuffed to the rafters with books! What company sells the ephemera packs? Sounds very intriguing.
Hugs x

Effie said...

That's a lovely postcard....

Anonymous said...

Clever transvestite touch. :-) Clever whole thing. Love it. I've had my Gesso for years but never used it. Seeing what you did with it gave me just the inspiration I needed.

Thanks,
Bahb

Karen said...

Awe, that could be me too :) This is lovely Joanne x

Sophie LaFontaine said...

I JUST saw this!!!! Now I have a huge warm fuzzy!!!!!!!!!