I made a Julie Nutting doll card for this weeks Teapot Tuesday challenge, it got me thinking about this card and I couldn't find it in my gallery....it seems I forgot to upload it.
There is a funny story with this card. Many years ago I mailed a Teapot Tickle card to a TEApotter, trouble is I wrote the wrong address....I mailed it to Nancy Williams address.
Nancy kindly readdressed the card and sent it on its merry way. I recently uploaded a very similar card to this for a Teapot Tickle and Nancy and I reminisced about my error. I then made this card and mailed it to Nancy...it arrived about 10 weeks later!
The background is from "The Australian Woman's Weekly Fashion - The First 50 Years". It was a cover from 1956. The lady on the front was cut from a 1956 sewing pattern magazine. The paper is super fine and sadly I amputated one foot. I went through my box of spare body parts, but nothing was quite right.
I added the skirt, it is from a Julie Nutting doll stamp and the embossing folder technique. To give the skirt a bit of dimension, do a mountain fold where each seam is, scrub a distress ink stained dauber on the fold, then repeat at each seam.
Karen Dunbrook had a great challenge in January last year called Embossed Folder Stamping (TLC723). Simply smack a distress ink pad on the embossing folder, spritz with water, put cardstock in and rub the folder with your hands - no actually machine embossing.
Thank you for looking. Stay safe.
Date: Monday, July 13, 2020 GMT Views: 1357
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Stamps: Julie Nutting stamp (skirt only)
Paper: 1956 Magazine cover and Home Journal magazine cover
Registered: February 18, 2010 Location: Stuck in the middle! Posts: 4680
Thu, Jul 16, 2020 @ 3:14 PM
Greetings from Colorado USA...haven't been to the gallery in forever and a day...but somehow ended up here just now...so happy to see your lovely card and read your explanation of how it came to be! As always I adore your cards! Stay SAFE! Staying home because its safer at home! Plus not all are wearing their masks and I do NOT wish to catch COVID!
Sending HUGS!
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My best creation is my children. -Diane von Furstenberg
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Fri, Jul 17, 2020 @ 3:56 AM
You know I love her. She sits o my counter. She is going to go in my scrapbook somehow. You know, I didn't even notice she has only one leg. Until the last few years, I often stood with one leg kind of bent and against the other so you captured that - amazing. Or maybe she was kicking ti up in back because she was so happy! Or maybe she has a run in her hose and she tucked up her leg so that handsome man didn't see it. Back when I wore hose, I did lots of hiding of runs. Anyway, I so appreciate this card. I will always cherish it. Hugz and thanks again!!!!
------------------------------ Nancy Williams - Hope your day is Spirit-filled and ink-filled (in that order)!DRS Designs-DT, Punchkateerforever, Dirty Dozen Alumni
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Thu, Jul 23, 2020 @ 6:32 PM
Wowza, this is fabulous! I love your stories about your creative process! Maybe this lovely lady is a WWII spy? I am currently reading "A Woman of No Importance" about Virginia Hall, an American who was a spy for the British in France in WWII. She only had one leg; the other was wooden. Maybe your lady lost her wooden leg walking down the stairs, and is elegantly making up for it by looking so demure. Or maybe she is just kicking it back at the haughty-looking woman behind her..? :-) Hugs!
------------------------------ -----Liz "Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your hands, ..." ~~1 Thess. 4:11 (NIV)
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Mon, Jul 27, 2020 @ 8:15 AM
HOW GORGEOUS IS THIS!!!! I AM IN AWE, Susie!!! I have been feeling the itch to make a sewing card, & this just tickles my fancy for that! HOW GORGEOUS!!! I didn't even notice the missing foot, till I read your explanation... LOL Maybe, she has her foot tucked up under her skirt for an itch on the leg???? I'm SURE Nancy will LOOOVE THIS!!! ;)<3 ("Lucky Nancy" fits!) ;)<3
This made my favorite of the year! My sister and I love the fashion of this era! Such an amazing card. I know this was made last month but life is a whirlwind right now and I haven't seen nearly as many cards as I would have liked!