Your creations always tell great stories of simple people - I love to read and to search for details - it's like a history lesson, but so much more interesting than back at school!
Natalie, this is picture perfect. Your father's story was wonderfully told and you've preserved it and your photo with the craftsmanship of a true artist. AWESOME lo.
Great choice of papers and embellishments to portray your father's story! My dad was in Algeria before being stationed in Italy near Mt Vesuvius(he loaded and developed camera film from the spy planes). He won't say anything about Algeria except hot and too horrible to talk about!
You handled those CSI colors wonderfully~ Your technique representation of heat in the background looks Fabulous, and I loved the background story and your memories of your Dad~ That photo and the Vintage large typewriter really play so well with the whole layout!
Wow, such a wonderful layout and fabulous photo of a very brave and proud team!! Those papers and typewriter embellies couldn't be more perfect!! Love the touchs of green and the corrugated cardboard along with the cogs and gears!! I always love to read your wonderful stories!! My FIL was in an Australian Signals corp and he bought home many photo's from the Middle East and told many stories as well. Beautifully done Natalie...absolutely love it!!
What a wonderful story to share and capture for your future generations. What a special moment in time, yet plagued with hardship. I think I feel the heat from the desert, so you must have gotten it right!!!!
wow what a fantastic photo and story. The page is amazingly and wonderfully done! Lovely design,masking ,the typewriters are perfect and so are the pprs. I notice the latch too! The colors are terrific.
Gorgeous LO Natalie! So glad you're able to SB after the storm :) please tell us about the little latch. Was it your father's? I think it is wonderful to add little mementos to our work. This LO is rich with dimension and texture, and I adore it! Fave
WOW!!!!!!!! Natalie, you are one talented lady both in scrapping & in writing! Your stories are always so very intersting & I really do enjoy reading them! Fabulous old photo & I absolutely love how you scrapped it!
Such a wonderful lo and story! Perfect pps for the story! I think you captured the heat and the feel of this so perfectly! Love it! And I don't blame your Dad for not eating dates! Just the image you painted makes me not want to eat them!
Another wonderful heritage LO, Natalie - love the background pp and the typewriters, so perfect for the signal corp - the corrugated cardboard and gears make this such a manly page - the story behind this page is wonderful and now you have preserved it so it continues ~
What a story! How wonderful you have so many details and a great photo to along with it...You scrapped it brilliantly. Perfect pps and embellishments...I feel the heat.....and the flies...ick. fave!
This is gorgeous, I love the story and all of the family history you are doing. This is perfectly scrapped using he prima type paper to represent the deciphering machines and teletype.
This is my submission for last week's CSI #43. The color requirements were: Black, white, yellow, pale green and medium green. My evidence includes framing, transparencies, and rub ons. My testimony is: I have used an old photo, and tied the past to the present in my journaling in which I documented a special event.
My journaling reads: " The group in the photograph was the 5th Signal Center Team. The photo was taken in May 1944, in Oran, Algeria, where the team was bivouacked prior to deployment to France as part of the Allied invasion of Europe from the south in WW2. The team was assembled and trained as a group at Camp Crowder, MO. All of the men were fluent in French, a necessity, as their job would be liaison between the Free French Army and the US 7th Army. They were skilled in the use of C-E equipment, enciphering and deciphering machines, radio teletype and teletype writers. So here we see the team gathered together in the hot Algerian desert. That is my Dad, standing 3rd from the left, smiling broadly. They were all in a strange place, a harsh climate and a foreign culture - but they all have the carefree and upbeat look of young men about to embark on an adventure. They would later be tested in the European theatre, and their past sacrifices ensured my future well being. But for now, this is their Algerian adventure! Dad would occasionally relate his Algerian experience, very simply and with little embellishment, and only when pressed!!! The huge tent camp was HOT and dusty. The men wore fatigues and continued to drill in the heat. They would sometimes get passes to go into the city, which he remembered as being dirty, with flies everywhere, and many beggars. As a child of the great depression era, Dad was used to deprivation, but the city was a real shock for him. The men also had the opportunity to visit the headquarters of the French Foreign Legion. As a child I was always amazed and fascinated that my Dad refused to eat dates. When questioned his reply was always "that's all I saw when I was in Algeria - dates in the marketplace covered with hundreds of flies, wouldn't eat a date if you paid me a million bucks!!" To which I would express suitable repugnance and sympathy, but continue on eating my date/nut bar!" Creating a feeling of "heat" was an important part in the making of the background paper. I used semi-gloss gel medium with 2 different masks, then misted with various shades of green and yellow. I hoped to get the shimmery effect of heat waves in a desert and the hot Algerian sun.
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