How We Learned About the World

Hi everyone. Happy middle of the week!

I'm back today with another vintage page for Wendy's challenge at Art Journal Journey.

When I was a kid, I didn't travel much. My family took vacations in neighboring states, and my grandmother took me to Washington DC when I was 14. We didn't have the money to do big trips since at that point, airfares were expensive, and my Dad, who had been in Asia during the second world war, liked to talk about travel more than he liked to actually go places.

I don't think we were really unique however. I didn't know many people who went to far away places other than maybe to Florida, and I had one friend who's sister live in Los Angeles so one summer I took care of her cat while the family drove across country. (I must admit, I would rather have taken a cross country trip than babysit Fu-Fu her cat. Smile.)

How did we learn about the world? We read National Geographic.

I somehow managed to procure this old copy of a National Geographic magazine, and I thought the cover would make a great centerpiece for my vintage journal page.

The watercolor paper I used as my background is rough textured. I picked up this pad for $2, and I must say, I'm not crazy about it. I guess it is a little too rough for me, but I must say, it does add some nice texture to the page. I added some scraps of a  yellow woven paper as it seemed to work well with the texture of the paper and gave it a little more interest .

I stamped and colored a suitcase image I had. After fussy cutting it, I put this gentleman sitting on them. This man ( I think of him as Jerry), looked to me like he was adventurous and ready to go off and write another article for National Geographic. If there's not an available seat at the station, airport or port of call, he'll wait for his transportation  by sitting on his luggage. And if these suitcases look a tad bit small, it's because he travels light. Getting the story is more important than anything to Jerry.

I thought this page still needed something, so I die cut this globe image. It was made with 3 pieces, and I added the small wooden vintage plane I had in my stash. It's important to get to those out of the way areas where Jerry might have to travel by small plane, or otherwise Jerry may have trek overland by foot or maybe even on a camel, yak, mule or elephant. 

Because I didn't want to cover up all the details of the  old magazine cover, I really spread out the letters on my page. The star is there just because I thought it looked good, and it could also represent so many other things about Jerry and about the world.

There you have it. Hope your week is going well!

And as always, thanks for visiting.