digital collage 'remember me'

Made in response to a call for art by Tangie of Art Journal Caravan. Everyone's submissions will be assembled into a digital book available for purchase at some point. It's at 300dpi so you can click (or maybe double click) on it for a huge view.

Started with two background papers blended with a grungy overlay. Added some stamps, blended in.

Used many images of my mom, Virginia, and her mother, Theresa. (mother theresa - ha!) She's the center image and the two going down to the left from there. She was dead at age 36 from breast cancer.

Used digital washi tape on most of them, staples on one and a paper clip on another. Added a butterfly image.

Added a cluster of flowers at lower left and some layered old papers at lower right.

I'm really happy with this. Love the color, the grunge, all the vintage images, the stamps in the background.

freebie vintage photos

This first one shows John and Josephine
and their three sons Clint, Franklin
and Harlan. No date.

This is a batch of photos from my husband's side of the family. Do as you will with them, including making projects to sell, but please do not sell them as themselves.

I'm going to caption each photo instead of trying to make this text line up right.

Here's Harlan as a baby in 1873.
This is a tintype. His expression slays me.

Harlan as a young man. No date.

Franklin and his bride Emma. 1896-ish

Frank and Emma again, motoring. No date.

Emma and their kids Lyle and Floyd. No date.

This couple seem to have been family friends.
What a pair, huh?

Josephine and her sons - Clint, Franklin, Harlan. No date.

4A4W lesson 3 - weight

The background for this one is a page from an old copy of Treasure Island. It's brown and brittle and perfect for collaging, and I paid a quarter for it at the thrift shop out at the edge of town. They have an entire wall of books - all $0.25 each. I staggered out to the car with an entire box of them a few months ago and they'll keep me going for ages - all for around $9.

I put a piece of torn paper across the top to get my green fix in. Another book strip down the right side to fill in where the first page wasn't quite long enough. The wrinkly bit on top is the tightly twisted paper handle from a gift bag. I had to work at untwisting it, but there were 3 different types of paper in there, different shades of tan, and I love them as accents. You really can't throw ANYTHING away once you start collaging...

Another mom image, this time on an old car. I tried positioning it here and there, but the cut-off right edge and bottom just looked weird, so I put it in the corner and worked from there. It was taken around 1925-26, I'd guess. She looks about 3 there, no?

The address book page is the real McCoy, from Theresa's little leather booklet. I just grabbed a page randomly, turned out to be the Rs. The fine fountain pen script is so appealing, all the more so because my own handwriting is so poor. It was just lost on the book page, color-wise, so I matted it, per Mary's technique, on part of a wine label we collected in Napa years ago. Just the right green to give it some weight.

The green car is obviously a new piece, and too white around the edges, so I colored it first by wiping some blending chalk over it.

This spread will get beefed up with some journaling. Meanwhile, it has a vintagey feel to me.

Gini

My mom's name was Virginia. She died on today's date in 1986, from cancer at the age of 63.

She ended life as Gini, but along the way she way Ginny for a while, as signed on this old photo holder.

This is the earliest photo I have of her, sitting in this ornate chair. I don't know whose chair, whose house, what occasion, just that it's her. That's true of many of the photos I have and makes me wish I had asked when I'd had the opportunity. Actually, it looks like a photographer's studio shot.









She hung out on the porch of this house cause I have this shot, plus two others of her with women I don't know.














She knew how to roller skate. She looks like a ragamuffin in this one with her jacket falling off one shoulder and her baggy old stockings. What a hassle those must have been.

And that goofy haircut. She had two older sisters and neither of them had such a severe hairstyle at that age.

This is her with her grandma whose name I'm not sure of. I don't even know if this is her dad's mom or her mom's mom.

I love the old lady's dress and apron. Looks like a high school or factory in the background. This was probably in Dayton OH.









She liked animals. She always had a cat or three lounging around the house. No idea where this pig picture was taken but it always make me smile. Nice bandanna hair knot thing she has going.





This is my favorite picture of her.

Her hair was never that long after I was born. She always wore it short and efficient, but she never went out of the house without that red lipstick. God forbid.







That's all, gotta go!