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Mary Green is currently hostessing a swap of vintage glue book pages. I decided at the last minute to join in with the fun. Here is one of my pages:
The pages are required to be 5 x 7 inches. I was given two old wallpaper sample books awhile back and decided to use some of the papers on my pages. For this particular background I used a portion of an endpaper from a discarded library book that looks like spider webs. Then I added some strips of a light blue wallpaper. The image is one I have had for a long time. She looks like a "housewife" to me. I also used an old handwritten recipe and some milk coupons. So, she likes to cook, save money on milk and dust away the cobwebs in her house! LOL
We had to make six pages for the swap; I made seven so that Mary could have one too. I will be posting the others every other day or so.
Thanks for visiting. Have a great weekend.
Here is another little collage I finished this week:
First I made the background (forgot to scan it before I added my collage elements). I love using the Tim Holtz inking tool for adding colors to white/cream cardstock. THis time I used most of the blue distress inks including broken china and then used pine needles to darken along the edges. Overstamped with a Magenta small floral vine and some tiny dots around the edges.
The image is from Paper Whimsy (love their images). Butterfly is from K & Co. Sentiment from an old hymnal. Added a pearl to her neckline, some tiny black gems to the butterfly and sentiment, Stickles turquoise glitter and some soft white ribbon. Mounted to a piece of black cardstock.
A few more collages are in the making; just a few finishing touches to add.
Have a good Sunday!
Mary Green is hosting a challenge which ends July 14th. She will also send a fabulous vintage paper assortment to a randomly drawn winner at the end of the challenge. I used the required three images and added some other ephemera, a postage stamp and rubber stamp, too. Mounted on dark brown cardstock, I think I will use this as a cover for a journal.
TFL.
Mary Green is offering an online class for a vintage glue book using images she provides or your own images, if you choose. This is my first page and it is certainly a challenge, because you are supposed to limit your supplies to glue, paper, scissors and a substrate, of course. It is very hard for me not to add some color around the edges, or to add a stamped image here and there, or an embellishment of some sort somewhere!!! The image of children that I used is of my Sunday school class when I was about five years old. Some of the papers are Mary's and some were from my own stash. I also used background papers that are not old at all. It was fun to try something a little different; and I will probably upload a few more of my pages as I go along.
TFL!
This week's theme for Sunday Postcard is "flourish". I have used a Stampington & Co. flourish stamp for the background of my postcard. Some stamped trees, the word Winter and a border at the bottom. Some swirly rice paper as the snow; a sticker postmark, silver snowflakes and some silver Stickles here and there. Image of the two little girls has been in my stash forever; not sure where I got it.
Fun theme!
SUNDAY POSTCARD ART theme this week is crackle. Another old flashcard with a crackle stamped background and some more rubber stamps to accent the vintage image. Love that big bow in her hair!
