Two Boys

Both of these images are from an 1889 S. Wechsler Brothers catalog Brooklyn, NY.

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Both of these images are from an 1889 S. Wechsler Brothers catalog Brooklyn, NY.

Boys

Both of these cute boy images are from a 1930 October edition of McCalls magazine.

Mother and Child

Both of these plates are from the book Chatterbox from 1884.  I have a collection of these books as they were published as a yearly annual.

C and Y

Both images are from Mother Goose and Other Tales 1904

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This week we have the amazingly talented artist Sue Berker as our guest designer.  We have been so lucky to have artist each week with such different styles and I just love how Sue has used this week's images.  I gave Sue two very different images and she took the challenge and used both in her cards.   I just love Sue's color combinations and her coloring details.   You can see more of her work on her beautiful blog Sharing What I Love.

Sue's bio in her own words.

"My name is Sue Berker.  I live in central Illinois in the USA.  I've been married to my husband for 10 and a half years and together we have 5 kids and 3 grandkids.  We are senior citizens, retired but still quite active with a number of things.  Since our family members live elsewhere, we do a bit of traveling so that we can spend time with them.

I began stamping about 10 years ago, became a Stampin'Up! demo for 4 years and then needed to help support the economy of the rest of the stamping vendors in this craft, so I quit being a demo.  I have done a little bit of scrapbooking but my real passion is stamping.  I lean towards a more clean look in my stamping.  I also like to create 3-D papercrafts.  I have had the pleasure and privilege of meeting several on my online friends in real life.  It's a great craft world - don't you agree?

I thank Cora for all of  the work she does to make these lovely, vintage images available to us and also for allowing me to participate as a Guest Designer on her blog."

Here are this week's images.

Goodbye to Summer

Goodbye to summer.  In honor of the end if summer here is a great beach image from the 1929 John Martin magazine.

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Today our guest designer is Leslie.  I found Leslie's blog a few months ago  and it is filled with stories and beautiful projects.  Her work is truly inspirational.  I love this birthday card she has created with this week's images.  Her technique is monochromatic.

Here is a description of Leslie's card in her own words. " I printed the image on Flourishes' Classic Ivory cardstock and colored with Copic markers in shades of gray.  Pale gray ink was sponged around the edges of the image panel.  I'd hoped to make this card completely monochromatic, and I did accomplish that with the coloring, but then I mixed in some tan with the designer paper, and couldn't help but add that little pop of color with the red string on the button.  Almost monochromatic.  The button, by the way, is nearly as vintage as the image.  A Cuttlebug embossed border adds a bit of trim across the front.  The black cardstock (from CTMH) has a white core which peeks through when the cardstock is sanded, as I did around the card edges and over the embossed trim."

Leslie's Bio:  "Card making is my favorite indoor pastime and I only wish I had more hours in a day to spend on it.  I'll admit that once I dipped my toe into the digital stamping water I followed with a headlong plunge and went a little nuts.  Oh, my, so many images to choose from!  Imagine all the clicking and saving when I happened upon Digital Two for Tuesday.  So... when Cora contacted me about this guest spot, well, she didn't have to ask twice.  I love what she does here!

I enjoy life on the southern Oregon coast with my husband, Rich, and two Golden Retrievers, Wally and LuLu.  In fact, my blog centers around the Goldens and the goings on in the garden -- my other passion.  There was a time I was all about design team work -- primarily for my favorite stamp company, Flourishes -- but I've settled into a more relaxed pace and now I wonder how I ever kept up.  I also spend four days a week intensely focused on my job in a medical lab.  I do most of my coloring on coffee breaks, and put the cards together when I've got time and creative energy at home.  Winter is coming and I'll be happily shifting my spare time attention to the stamp room.  I'm sure Cora will have some fabulous new/old Christmas images for us.  Thank you, Cora, and thank you all for visiting."

You can see more of Leslie's wonderful artwork on her blog Goldens and Garden.  After you surf around get out your supplies and take the challenge and create a project with these images.

both images are from John Martin's Child Magazine 1929

Flea Market Find

I went to the flea market this morning and found a cute book called The Children's 1927 Pitter Patter Book.  It is filled with line drawings of little children to post for you.

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These two boys are from the 1895 Delineator magazine.  I cleaned the yellowed and soiled images up and they came out fairly nice.  I am still trying to find the right editing program.  I did these with Pixelmator which seems to be ok if there is not much repair work.