This is for Brenda's VSN challenge seen here. When I was very little all my clothes were made by my gma and my gma nana ( my gma's mom) anyways. My mom always told me when she dies I would get her gma's sewing machine... My mom sent it home to me with her brother last fall for the heck of it. ( I am not using it but, I can see it right now while I am making this card. this is a bittersweet type good memory as my gma is currently living in a nursing home because of the Alzheimer's. tfl. left it blank, not sure when I may mail it out yet. the machine was stamped twice and the center is popped up with some chalk ink rubbed on the popped up part.
Date: Saturday, March 7, 2015 GMT Views: 716
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Registered: August 18, 2008 Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK Posts: 31972
Sat, Mar 07, 2015 @ 2:45 PM
Fabulous card, Stacy, I love the image and it looks dimensional like you've popped part of it up - great distressing. I'm sorry about your grandma, but glad you've got such good memories.
Registered: February 9, 2010 Location: Mentone, California Posts: 7361
Sun, Mar 08, 2015 @ 3:26 AM
This has a wonderful vintage feel the way you have backed it with lace and accessorized with a gingham ribbon. That sewing machine image is incredible. You have used it beautifully.
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Registered: July 27, 2007 Location: Dublin, Ireland Posts: 132001
Mon, Mar 09, 2015 @ 12:54 PM
Alzheimers and dementia in general just stinks. I've just finished a conversation with my dad who told me he'd been repairing a camera so that it would fly round the room. At least your lovely sewing machine reminds me of his better days; my first sewing machine was very much like this, but he painted it in blue and white enamel paints with little flowers, to make it more suitable for a 7 year-old. And the first thing I did was run the needle half-way through my finger . Thank goodness it WAS a hand machine like this, even a treadle one might have been going faster. The lace DP is lovely with it for an added nostalgic feel.
Registered: November 25, 2007 Location: Rudolph, WI Posts: 14498
Mon, Mar 09, 2015 @ 5:36 PM
Lovely card and great memories of your gma's! I learned to sew on a treadle machine and had promised it when I got married. When Mom got an electric one, she gave it to her sister who really needed it with the understanding I got it back at some time. then their house burned down and it was gone. But.....eventually I got one that was being given away on a radio station. I really treasure that for all the good memories of learning to sew with my mom.
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