Vintage Scrapping

Thank you cards for child's birthday (boy)

Last post for tonight! 

 

These are the thank you cards I made for my son's birthday this year.  I always try to make them look appropriate for his age and gender.   These were not very hard to make once you got going!!

 

 

So the gist of these was - take burgandy cardstock for main part of card, cut and score to size.  Then cut a piece of plain white cardstock to fit the front with 1/4" shorter all the way around.  I have a stamp that creates the lines, so using my stampamajig I placed it where I wanted the lines and stamped them in alternate colors.  I did put a rectangle piece of paper where the Thanks word is as a mask.  Once all lines were stamped, I used stampin up's heat and stick powder, heated it up with embossing gun and then coated it with stampin up's dazzling diamonds.   Once that was done, I stamped the word Thanks on top of the dazzling diamonds and glued it down to top of card.  TADA!  That's it!!!

Thanks for looking and please feel free to leave comments!

Melissa

A black and gold Deluxe Double Mum!

 This will be a quick post - just wanted to post a pic of a Deluxe Double mum I made.  This is for The Colony High School black and gold - first one I have done in these colors!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Didn't the tutu for the bear turn out cute!!!

 

 

 

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Memory Notebook Present

So sorry it has taken me so long to post some of these things!   So this was a Christmas present I made for a very dear friend of mine with an exquisite name (gee.....it's really similiar to mine!)  I wanted to make something special and thought a personalized memory book would be perfect!

 I know I am not the best with the photos sometimes so I took multiple angle shots so you could get a real feel for it. 

 

First I measures and cut the paper for the front, back and to go around the binding.  The next step was to measure out where to punch the holes for the woven ribbon (so they would be equi-distant) and then used my ATG and glued the binding paper to the front and back paper (STILL NOT ATTACHED TO BOOK). 

 

Then carefully, I wove the ribbon through the punched holes until it was finished and tucked the last pieces of ribbon under and glued them down.  Now the next part is what is tricky, you have to slowly glue the front page down, then glue binding down, then glue back down.    Try to use something that won't dry too fast so you can move it around a little since this is one big piece you are attaching.  
Then set something heavy on it and leave it alone until it is dried completely.

 

 

 

 

 

Once it is dried, go back and ink the edges - I used the Tim Holtz distressed inks in fired brick for the distressing on this one.    Once I found the letter "M" I wanted to use on the front, I rubbed the Tim Holtz ink pad over it until it was the color I wanted.  Added some crystals to the top and bottom of "M".   Next I used my spellbinders nestabilities dies and cut the striped paper and backed it with black paper and cut an oval out of burgandy mulberry paper and then used a newsprint paper backed with black cardstock.   Ink each piece and then layer them using pop dots under the mulberry paper.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then I made the little crochet lace flower by weaving over and under through the edge of the lace and then tying the two end together.   The little red rosettes were made from twisting ribbon and gluing them down.  

 

 

 

 

 

The last thing I did was I found a rub on that I thought would be perfect for the right corner:

Hope you like it!  I will try to work on making a step by step photo tutorial of how I make these books.  It was by chance that I started making them but they have turned out to be the neatest little gifts to make people feel special because they are so personalized!

 

Thanks for looking!

Melissa

Triple Homecoming Mums - yep, more! :-)

So I must admit, after mum season ended last October, I was a little sad because it was going to be a whole year before I got to make them again BUT I was surprised with two more Private School orders for February Homecomings! YEAH!! It was like a late Christmas present - seriously, I just love making these things.

 

This one was for a Junior and she loves Zebra - so I added alot of Zebra accents.  This is the first dress I made for a bear - what do you think??    Since she loved Zebra, for the memory book I covered it with a zebra felt.  Also it is hard to see but I got some of those hand clappers and attached black lace to it for an extra noise maker!  The girl who wore this made Homecoming Queen this year!!

 

 

 Here are a few more close ups:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I just LOVE how it turned out!

 

 

Here is another one I did, but this one was for a senior.   She loves all things western so I decided to make a "cowgirl" bear for the middle. 

Also for the box braid, I made three braids and looped them together for a lasso type look - oh you can see the hand clapper in the middle of this one real well! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And on this one - for the bear - I made a fringe vest.  I also made a lasso that the bear is holding and painted it silver - so much easier than I thought it would be!  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Since I was trying to make it look western, I used a different font for the Senior 2012 letters.  The font I used has a more "wooden fence" type western look - not sure if you can tell in the photos but here is a closer look at the font and also a closer look at the lasso in the second picture below.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tell me what you think!!!  Thanks so much for looking and I hope you enjoyed them!

Melissa

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