Saturday, April 30, 2016

Labor Day / työn päivän sankareita

Tomorrow is Labor Day here in Europe. A day of rest from drudgery and toil for these lads, sons of workers who had to work in factories from young on. Let's remember the idea behind Labor Day - and then go outside and enjoy the sun!
We were dead poor.
I like the fresh air better:
I started working on the ships.
We wish for a miracle:
We are the Proletariat.
I am entering these into:
Simon says Monday: Show us your metal
Steampunk challenge: Anything goes
MMMonthly: #23 Dimension
Stampotique: SDC242 Masculine

The backgrounds are full of nice products: watercolor, book pages, washi tape, stamping, stencils, gesso, acrylics. They are rather busy, but still adequate as a backdrop. I added fun metal pieces and some 'enamel' number plates I made myself.
Thanks for looking!
If you are interested in seeing some real life footage from Victorian era workers, take a look at this video on youtube.

14 comments:

  1. great job with your ATC's Alice...love your take on the Simon says Stamp Monday Challenge...thanks for joining us...hugs kath xxx

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  2. Beautiful Alice.
    Thanks for joining in with us at Stampotique this week :)

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  3. Beautiful ! thank you for your participation at Sandee & Amelie steampunk challenges !

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  4. These are absolutely beautiful and full of meaning, Alice! Thank you so much for sharing your wonderful ATCs with us at SanDee&amelie's Steampunk Challenges!

    Claudia x

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  5. They are fabulous ATC's. Thanks for joining me over at Stampotique !
    Corrie x

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  6. Wow. What a wonderful, masculine collection of ATCs with great details that reveal a story.

    Thanks for playing along with us at Stampotique Designers Challenges.

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  7. These are fab Alice, wonderful backgrounds and images. Thank you so much for joining in with us at Stampotique and have a great week. Sue xx

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  8. Fantastic ATCs and perfect for the masculine challenge. Thank you for playing with us in this weeks challenges at Stampotique Designers Challenge.

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  9. These are all great, I love these. Thanks for joining us this week at Stampotique.

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  10. You truly are the MASTER of ATC's! I am so impressed with how you're able to create a scene and tell a whole entire story on such a small surface space! I especially loved the concept and inspiration for this set of cards and it definitely made me grateful to have a good job in this day and age where the biggest hurdle is making sure my M&M's come out of the vending machine correctly! Thanks so much for sharing your talents with us for this week's Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge!

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  11. great ATC's
    thank's for joining in with Stampotique.
    Carol x

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  12. These ATC's are amazing! So vintage looking and the pictures are fabulous. Thank you so much for joining us at Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge. Hugs, Sandra

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  13. Great set of ATCs
    Thank you for joining us at the SDC blog this week
    Jackie

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