Give Me Your Poor

I have two cards to share with you today.  

This first one features the lovely Statue of Liberty,  And I stamped God Bless the USA  with Versafine black pigment ink.  I covered it with detail clear embossing powder and heat set.  I used a yellow dye based marker to color the letters.  I used a dye based marker because Versafine ink (even when heat embossed with clear powder)  is NOT a Copic friendly ink and WILL smear.    I added some fine sparkly elements on the torch and the bottom of the statue area.  I wanted to try and color Lady Liberty to look like she does in "real life."  That required a number of  markers and colored pencils as well.  I used several Copic markers followed by  regular Prisma color pencils -- not the blending ones.  

The Statue of Liberty is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor in New York City, in the United States. The copper statue, a gift from the people of France to the people of the United States, was designed by French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and its metal framework was built by Gustave Eiffel. The statue was dedicated on October 28, 1886.

The statue is a figure of Libertas, a robed Roman liberty goddess. She holds a torch above her head with her right hand, and in her left hand carries a tabula ansata inscribed JULY IV MDCCLXXVI (July 4, 1776 in Roman numerals), the date of the U.S. Declaration of Independence. A broken shackle and chain lie at her feet as she walks forward, commemorating the recent national abolition of slavery.^[8] After its dedication, the statue became an icon of freedom and of the United States, seen as a symbol of welcome to immigrants arriving by sea.

The torch-bearing arm was displayed at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876, and in Madison Square Park in Manhattan from 1876 to 1882. Fundraising proved difficult, especially for the Americans, and by 1885 work on the pedestal was threatened by lack of funds. Publisher Joseph Pulitzer, of the New York World, started a drive for donations to finish the project and attracted more than 120,000 contributors, most of whom gave less than a dollar (equivalent to $30 in 2021). The statue was built in France, shipped overseas in crates, and assembled on the completed pedestal on what was then called Bedloe's Island. The statue's completion was marked by New York's first ticker-tape parade and a dedication ceremony presided over by President Grover Cleveland.

The above information and more is available here.  

This second card is basically the same except I have no sparkly elements on this card.    I used both the Statue of Liberty and God Bless the USA.  Then the verse at the bottom (which is only a part of the poem on the base of the statue) is COMPUTER  GENERATED and is not a TJ stamp.  

You can read about the poem here.  In the base of the Statue of Liberty, the visitor can read some verses written in English of course. This is the poem "The New Colossus" by Emma Lazarus. This plaque was added in 1903 on the base, she was not there at the inauguration. 

The Technique Junkies June release stamps are wonderful -- in my opinion!  There is also a "Gotta Have It All" grouping and a discounted price.  It is a really good deal!!!

And if you don't want them all,  you can  save 15% on any you want through June 8! And you can save 10% on anything not already on sale.  

Have a wonderful June day!!   And get inky!!