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 | | Jen is our hostess this week over in the Teapot Tuesday forum - our cards are going to a WWII vet to help him celebrate his birthday, and her theme is MMTPT558 Red, White and Blue.
Well, aside from the patriotic connotations that makes me think airmail, so that gave me my in to the card. I stamped the background, inking it in blue and red. Edged with a gold pen.
Stamped the plane, added a little colour, used a brad in the nose cap and an SN clear glitter pen on the prop, which I think you can't see. Matted on gold, as also the sentiment.
Jen's bonus cookies were to include something related to our grandfather. My paternal, Irish one, died I guess around 1950, I never met him. My maternal, Scottish one, lived in Canada and he did visit Ireland once but I'm too young to have any memories apart from photos I've seen of his visit. But I do know that he fought in both wars - he ran away and joined the Royal Flying Corps underage in WWI. I have the most poignant, sad poem written by my mother about how changed he was when he came back from the second war. She saw him as "old and faded, like an inside out shirt" - no longer an adventurer but taking to bridge, golf and safe investments, and he felt she had grown up without him and was no longer the child he loved and remembered and was now a stranger. Anyway, the plane is in his memory. I guess I could have used my cute husky stamp because part of the poem tells how, after the first war, he went exploring up in the Arctic and his lead dog was called Cerberus. |
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Date: Tuesday, April 2, 2019 GMT
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Keywords: MMTPT558 Post Script Sky is the Limit masculine
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Stamps: Post Script, Sky is the Limit
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Paper: white card, gold
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Paper Size: A2
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Ink: Versafine Black, DOX: blueprint sketch, barn door, distress: hickory smoke
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Accessories: brad, SN clear glitter pen, Polychromos pencils
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