Vintage Scrapping

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

Christmas Card 2010

Merry Christmas!! 

This is our Christmas card I made this year.  It took me a whole day to come up with this one! I couldn't figure out exactly what I wanted to go for and started with the wreath.  Finally after much trial and error, this was the final outcome.

 

First off, all the paper I used for this is GinaK Pure Luxury Cardstock - it's just so awesome!  I started with a dark green as the card base.  The size of this is 3" by 5".  Next I cut a piece of white cardstock for the front of card and one for the inside of the card.  The red door was cut using my cricut and gypsy.  I used the plantin schoolbook cartridge on my gypsy for a rectangle and copied and resized it until it cut the sizes I wanted.  Once cut I used Distressed Ink in Fired Brick around the edged of the red door and around edges of panels to give it a little depth.

 

 

 

The next thing you see is the wreath.  This was cut on my cricut using the christmas cartridge.  I cut the main wreath and then using the shadow feature cut another using a darker cardstock.  Once these were glued together, I used a crackle stamp and with some versamark stamped on the front of the wreath and heat embossed the crackle design with some clear embossing powder to give it texture.  Punched holes to create the bow and added some bling with the irock tool.  Use a few pop dots behind it and tada!  Looks like it's hanging on the door!

 

 

The door knob was cut using the sentiments cartridge with my cricut.  Of course it came out a little gunky so I used the walnut stain distressed ink and a foam applicator and coated it until it was all brown.  Then used a small round brad as the knob.

 

The Merry Christmas sentiment was an old stamp I had.  I used my ek success label punch to create the sign and it also had the one for our name plaque.  I backed them with green cardstock to make them look a little more substantial.

 

This is the inside of the card.  The holly stamp is an old clear acrylic stamp I have and the Happy Holidays is by Hero Arts.  I used memories black dye ink to stamp images and then used my copic markers to color the holly.

Supplies:

• Cardstock (heavy weight)
• Cricut (Plantin Schoolbook, Christmas and Sentiments Cartridges)
• Label Punch
• Crackle Stamp, Sentiment Stamp for front of card and inside of card, Holly Stamp
• Ribbon
• Clear Embossing Powder
• Brads (for doorknob)
• Markers 
• Pop dots

Let me know what you think!  Thanks for looking and have a happy holiday season!!

Melissa