My Dad passed away a year ago (and my Mum three years ago), so my sisters and I have been going through all the old family albums. There are photos of us from the 50s dressed in coats and hats like this so I decided to use this image for my retro fashion card. We even had a little black dog back then! So you can see why I had to buy this stamp!
I stamped the image and watercoloured it with my Gansai Tambi paints. I mixed some black with iridescent white paint for the ground. And then mixed the palest blue with a lot of the iridescent white to do a very light wash over the top area of the panel.
Then I added more blue to the iridescent white and painted it onto a scrap of watercolour paper. When dry, I die cut the small snowflakes and the sentiment from it.
I popped the panel up on fun foam on a blue/grey card base. In real life, it's much closer in colour to the snowflakes than it appears in the photo.
Date: Thursday, February 27, 2020 GMT Views: 817
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Registered: March 29, 2011 Location: Covington, WA Posts: 32470
Thu, Feb 27, 2020 @ 9:19 AM
Adorable image and card, Susan. Old pictures bring back so many memories. There are pictures of me in a similar coat and matching leggings. Thanks for playing in my challenge.
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Registered: August 21, 2007 Location: Wayland MA Posts: 105275
Thu, Feb 27, 2020 @ 10:46 AM
Such a cute retro image with the child and dog. Love it!
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Registered: February 27, 2007 Location: LaCrosse, Wisconsin Posts: 39808
Thu, Feb 27, 2020 @ 1:32 PM
That is such a perfect stamp for you...it's delightful and I would like it myself. I had some sweet little coats like that, wool or corduroy. I wore a long pony tail and had a hat that had a hole in the back for my 'tail.'
------------------------------ Jean Bean the Dancing Queen "You can play a shoestring if you're sincere." -John Coltrane