All Things Vintage

I discovered a couple years ago that I really enjoy scrapbooking with a vintage theme to my pages.  I bought a book about vintage scrapping and I was hooked.  So I began the hunt for old pictures.  At first, I just looked at my picture and the paper I'd chosen.  I was lost.  I looked again at examples in the book.  I began to notice a very common theme...layering.  Layering of all kinds, papers, textures, just anything.  So I opened my embellies drawers and began to pull out first this and then that.  I would lay them on my paper, arranging and rearranging.  When I finally got something I was happy with, I began to attach it to my paper.  Pleased with the final outcome, searched for more pictures that fit the vintage feel.  Here are some of my vintage pages that I truly love.

 

My first attempt was of my grandmother.  I used a stamp with the word "Cherish", because I do cherish her, a 3-D sticker with the word "Inspire" on it because she is truly an inspiration.  A shoe sticker and some very blingy (is that a word?) trim because my grandma was always a very fashion conscious person, she loved her shoes and clothes.  A "m" tag, because her first name begins with M.  I framed her picture in some vintage looking cardstock and then I used sandpaper and ink to age the frame.

This is a picture I did of my grandparents along with the account of their marriage that appeared in the newspaper.  I used an embellie which looked like an old postcard which I ran through the cuttlebug and embossed to make it look like script.  A little ink rubbed on it and "tada" aged!!  A little postage stamp with a "5" on it near the bottom of their picture signifies they had 5 children.

This page includes a picture of my great-grandmother, my sister and me celebrating out January birthdays together.  I was able to copy her handwriting from a letter my mother had.  Made a lollipop flower attached to a coffee sticker (because she always fixed us coffee with lots of milk when we visited her house)  A tag stamped with the word "memories" was perfect for some journaling of my childhood memories.  My great-grandma lived to be 103.

And this is me, 2 months old!  Also among one of my earlier attempts at vintage.  Yikes!  Not sure I like referring to myself as "vintage".  LOL  The bib was made with a round scallop punch.  I then took a 1" circle punch and cut out the neck hole, added some ties and I came up with a bib for my layout.  I tore out a piece of paper with the city name where I was born and added the "56" on the tag to indicate my birth year.

If you have not yet tried any vintage scrapping, I hope you will try it.  I think layering and more layering is the key to making your page look antique like.

Baby Albums for Gifts

As a new mom, time just flies by.  24 hours passes and you wonder "What did I accomplish on this day?"...Diapers, feedings...feedings, diapers...wipe up spills, wipe a snotty nose or two and on and on and on.  Who has time to take pictures?  Or better yet, who has time to get that picture out of the camera, much less time to put in an album.  Those thoughts were my inspiration for an album I made recently for a new mother.  A page for each month of the year so she could quickly document the baby's growth month by month without a lot of hassle.  So, today, I wanted to share some pics of the album with you.

 Miss January (baby was born in Jan.), Feb.  Using Cricut cuts for letters and diecuts.

 March, April....for the March page I ran some fiber the length of the page and then tied snippets of ribbon and fiber around it to mimic a kite tail.

 May, June..loved that baby buggy from Cricut cart.  I used little tiny buttons for the middle of wheel spokes.

 July, August...gotta' love those sunglasses from Cricut

 September, October..I was trying to use things I already had in my stash and the puffy letters for Sept. is a mixture of upper and lower case.  I wasn't sure at first but I liked the way it looked when I finished it.

 November, December..pumpkin and rocking horse also from Cricut.

 After I did a page for each month, there were pages leftover in my album so i decided to just include a few fun things, such as "My Mommy" and "Daddy Duty" page.  The page corners were cut from a paper pack by Paper Studio called "Sweet Pea".  It's everything baby in that paper pack...love it!!

 A family page and a page to document new things baby is learning in the first year.

 A page for likes and dislikes and a page for that first tooth picture.

The last page is for listing story books baby enjoys.  I loved the diecuts from "Graphically Speaking" Cricut cart. 

I also stamped the back of the album with a new stamp I found from Stampablities at Hobby Lobby.  It says "Inspired by Life..Crafted by Hand".  In the middle of circle it says "One-of-a-kind-Art Created By" and then a line for your name.

Hope I've inspired you to do some more scrapping real soon.
(Sorry for the glare on some of the pictures.  I was in a hurry and didn't take them out of the page protectors.)

Good Bye Winter, Hello Spring

Winter it is time for you to go to bed,

You sleepy, sleepy head.

Spring's about to wake up

Promising daffodils and creamy buttercups.

Winter  take with you your cold winds and snow,

Let Spring breezes take their turn to blow.

A Poem for My Loved Ones

For You, I Pray

I've stood where you are standing today,

I've prayed the same kind of prayers you're praying today.

To say good-bye to the ones we love so

Can be so hard, Believe me I know.

 As her spirit soars

And you are left behind,

May the same arms that carry her away from this pain,
Circle you in love, Carrying you through your pain.

I've stood where you are standing today,

And I'm praying with you today.

For my loved ones in Louisville, KY, who are preparing to say good-bye to their loved one.

And the Winner Is.........

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CHRISTY!!!!!!!!!!  Congrats!  Send me your addy and I will get the album in the mail to you ASAP.

Thank you to all who have chosen to follow my blog and participated in my first ever give away.  Stay tuned, I hope to have more.

Time Well Spent

What a fun weekend!  I went to a sleepover..yes I said a sleepover.  LOL  I know you think I'm too old for that, right?  Well, I did it anyway.  My two sisters and a cousin came to town and we partied Friday night away at my mom's house.  I'm thinking I may be too matured for nights lasting past 2a.m. but it sure was fun.  Lots of pizza, snacking, games, looking through old photos, chatting till the wee hours and howling laughter.  Time with family equals time well spent.  Making more memories to deposit in our memory banks.

Just two more comments and we will have the album give away.  WooHoo!!!!!!!!!!!

My Valentine

Here are pics of my sweetie's Valentine I made for him this year.  I followed a tutorial on Tim Holtz's blog.  This little booklet uses only one sheet of 12X12 paper.

I used double-sided paper from K&Company "Life's Journey" paper pack.  The little square embellies was a sheet of paper in the stack that I cut apart and matted.  I used Tim Holtz tissue paper tape for the binding and edges of the paper, also some other of his embellies were used throughout the book.  This little book winds up having 3 pockets so I used those for tags to put personal love notes on to my Valentine.
Here's the link for Tim's blog:
http://timholtz.typepad.com/my_weblog/