Sad stories 1-3

Don't get me wrong - I love the light and happy and romantic pieces as much as the next man, ahem, woman. But sometimes there is a need for some darkness. I found the challenge Smudgy Antics, and just knew this was a place to try and explore some of the less-happy, less-light pieces that sometimes must be made.
I am also participating in Stamps and Stencils May challenge with this. There we are asked to make "three of a kind". Backgrounds are stamped with a swirl.

I have had these children on my desk for a while. They are pensive, they don't show much emotion, I feel they cannot be living amongst butterflies and kittens and roses.

Instead, meet them in Sad Stories.

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I was left alone in the world:

Poor must be meek:

Antti became an orphan early in life:

All set against the backdrop of Turku, a sea-faring town, one could imagine Antti setting out to sea to make a living, the poor sibling boys living with a tyrannic aunt or shuffled from house to house until they are old enough to start working. And the girl, on the verge of adolescence, no doubt has to find herself a household to work for. Probably normal fates back then, a hundred, 120 years ago, but unthinkable for us.


Surullisia tarinoita kolmen kortin sarjana. Antti joutui varhain orvoksi, veljekset (Köyhän pitää olla nöyrä) ja nuori tyttö, lapsi vielä (Olin yksin). Joskus on hyvä käsitellä aiheita, joissa ei kuki ruusut, eivät kehrää pehmoiset kissanpennut eikä aurinko aina paista. Taustat ovat Turusta, niin valokuvatkin.
Kommenttisi ilahduttaa! Mitä ajattelet vakavista atc-korteista? Vai miellätkö atc't enemmän herttaisiksi ja romanttisiksi vintage-korteiksi?