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| In the fall, I am usually dusting off my own passport and getting ready to go on a trip. This year, my trip sadly got canceled so I may have to send some others off to travel instead of going myself... The travel journal was all prepped and ready... |
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| I love to travel and I've always loved passports....little books filled with exotic rubber stamps? How could I not like them? So, I started picking them up any time I got a chance....and one thing lead to another....and.... I started creating fantasy passports for imaginary people going on imaginary trips... just my type... |
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| When I found these small, vintage photos at the Vintage Paper Fair I knew these ladies were going to have to go on a trip. |
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| I change the photos of the travelers. After all, who ever likes their passport photo? We need new and glamorous photos for our fantasy trips. |
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| I collect small photos (especially when I travel in other countries) to add -- and I add in rubber stamps and postage stamps and really, anything that seems to suit the trip... |
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| Sometimes I give the pages a watercolor wash....or collage on them... |
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| A trip to Morocco inspired this page....I didn't see any camels but I saw donkeys. |
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| A France inspired page... |
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| Those two ladies look like they would enjoy an English Tea - so I sent them to the UK. (real immigration stamps) |
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| I always leave any existing stamps and visas showing and work with them. This is a real visa for a trip to Japan so the two pages are Japanese. |
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| Japan Passport picked up at the VPF I found a Swedish one too.... You want to see them? Let me know in the comments. |
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| This Japanese passport had A LOT of wonderful stamps from entering and departing Japan.... I think I will just leave them as-is. So cool. One thing that really bugs me is that many times I just breeze thru immigration and my passport doesn't even get stamped at all. I really hate that. If I am talking to a person I ask to get it stamped, but I took a train thru a few countries in Eastern Europe and it was oddly like there were no borders, No stamps in my passport at all.... |
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| A Russian Passport Don't you love that handwriting? I am going to have fun with this one. Since I've been to Russia I have some wonderful bits of old ephemera from flea markets there to add.... |
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| I find that passports are difficult to find. They are very expensive on eBay. I have gotten lucky a few times at the Vintage Paper Fair. But -- that Japanese store - Muji - has little, inexpensive notebooks (pictured) that come in red or blue and are the exact size as many passports, rounded corners and all. So now I think I will be making a few of my own own passports -- I wonder if I will have to invent a new country? Himmmm......I could give a workshop in my studio on making these......that would be a lot of fun. Would you come? I am kinda sad because of my trip....but the best remedy for that is making a lot of art in my studio so that's where I am headed off to now... Ciao bella. SEND GOOD MAIL -- GET GOOD MAIL |
