Cards with dolls in Costumes

I had my inspiration from our local and famous Cartonist - LAT. I hope when LAT comes across my blog, he won't feel offended by this. I love his village scenes and certainly hope to produce more cards depicting local scenes. This lady standing at the balcony is definitely my favourite.

This card took me quite a while and if you ask me who am I giving this card to, I would give you a crazy reply - I AM NOT GIVING IT TO ANYONE. I would rather draw another. Ha Ha Ha So definitely I have quite a huge collection and this crazy me always take them out to see. Everytime when I do that, I imagine myself there. Ha Ha Ha I hope you will have a wonderful time looking through these cards here. I will post more later.

Hah........another of my favourite. Yes, this little Malay girl is sitting at the stairs waiting for her father to come home. I actually have a pair of slippers attached to the card but they fell off. Perhaps I will attach them to show you later.

Study this picture carefully. It is a typical Malay village house. Where the girl sits is a iron pot with milk can hanging on a stick. Before entering the house, the Malays usually wash their feet first. It is good manners because our feet are usually dirty when they are out the whole day. Look at the inside, there is nothing much but I would just like to share with my readers that; A Malay house maybe a poor house but it is always clean, neat and well taken care. The Malays are basically very house proud.

This type of wooden house is simply a joy to leave in. I have lived in one before and the cool breeze from the many, many coconut trees planted all around can truly lure one to sleep. I hope you will have a chance to visit such settlements. It depicts a carefree life, a life not bond with senseless rules and regulations. Here everyone is out in the open and if the owner wishes to visit his neighbour he can simply walk over without needing to lock his house. Yes, people are simple and honest.

A Malay lady going to town dressed decently.

If you notice the background of this card is a picture taken from a magazine. This is one way to show case the paper doll and this gives a homey look. Sometimes to actually draw, cut and paste such background can really take long tedious hours to complete.

This card is also a good method for recycle process.