I made this background using the acetate inking technique with a clear report folder. It was a background making class and I'm not sure what inks these are.
When I was about to turn 10 my family moved from San Antonio, Texas to Augusta, Georgia. It's a 22 hour drive. My grandmother knew that a trip like that would seem interminable to 3 kids under 10, so she fixed us some grab bags with little toys in them for the trip. She wrote clues on them telling us when we could open each of them. That trip was our first time to cross the Mississippi river and I remember that crossing was one of the clues to open a grab bag. On those long trips (for there were many back to visit grandparents) my mother taught us to spell Mississippi saying, "M-I-Crooked Letter-Crooked Letter-I-Crooked Letter-Crooked Letter-I-Humpback-Humpback-I."
My grandmother has been gone a long time now, but her memory lives on. She was my first art instructor and probably the reason I make cards today.
For my niece and nephew (her greatgrandchildren) who fly to Augusta from Hawaii every summer, I make little grab bags for their long flight home.
Date: Friday, June 15, 2018 GMT Views: 680
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Splitcoast Dirty Dozen Alumni My Pinkie is Inkie in Boxertown
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Fri, Jun 15, 2018 @ 9:19 PM
A beautiful card and what a fun memory of your trip across the Missisip! I remember learning to spell it the same way with the humpback I's. That is so sweet that you make grab bags for the niece and nephew's trip back to Hawaii.