Vintage Style Tags and Postcards

Unfortunately I didn't take a photo of the two 12 x 12 pieces of paper I started with.  They were awful and needed covering up with gesso!

Using scraps and some ephemera I created some postcards.

And some more and a couple of tags.

Once I'd taken the photos I decided they needed a bit more to finish them off.

So I added some random pieces of tissue tape.

Close ups of the postcards.

And the tags.

I used 3d foam to make the focal images pop out from the backgrounds.

Distressed Postcards

A set of distressed postcards created from magazine images.

These images distressed quite well.

A layer of wax added and buffed so they are smooth to the touch.

They didn't work so well with a lot of white in the background as there was nothing to distress.

A couple of close ups.

Stamped the back of each one with different stamps, but the same layout.

To create the look of a postcard.

Triple Pocket Holders

Had another dabble with some magazine papers and used scraps of card, paper, lace, ribbon and washi tape to decorate them.

Seth Workshop - Finished Book

Once I'd decided what I was putting on the front cover, I removed the top layers.

As I wasn't totally accurate I gave the outsides a cover of black gesso.

This is the front cover finished.

Inside cover and first page.

First page.

Back of page one and front of page two.

Back of page two and page three.

Page three has an insert into the envelope.

Back of page three and page four.

I think this is my favourite page.

Back of page four and page five.

Back of page five which is just an envelope and page six, which is also an envelope.

I also made a tag to put in the envelope.

Back of page six and tag and page seven.

Page seven with a semi transparent pocket and a tag.

Page seven with the tag showing.

Back of page six and page seven with the tags showing.

Back of page seven and page eight.

Back of page eight and page nine.

Back of page nine with a message from Seth and back page.

I decided to leave the back cover plain.

Seth Workshops - Day Two

All set up and ready for day two. Today we were making a book.

A demo to start off with so we had some idea of what we were doing.

Prepping the book to remove the covers as that's the only part we needed.

For day two I moved to this table as a couple of ladies arrived and wanted to sit together but there was only a space next to me and a space on this table. So today I sat next to Liz who had travelled over from Ireland for the two classes.

And this is Julia and Kathy who we sat opposite. They are making the spine of their books.

It was a gorgeous day and the sun was beaming through the windows.

This was the table that I was on yesterday!

Seth demoning how to make the spine stronger when attaching it to the book covers.

Our table just got messier and messier!!

Close up of our messy table!!

Some of the pages that I created.

An envelope as a page with an insert and a tab.

One of Seth's die cuts which we got in our bag of goodies to use on the pages.

Liz had brought the kitchen sink with her and very kindly let me rummage through her stuff, so I took this tag.

And this was her postcard too, but I loved it, so she let me have that as well. It's going to be the last page in my book.

And before I left Seth left his mark on the back of my postcard.

A huge thank you to the ladies in both classes, the people at Birds in the Barn doing all the hard work behind the scenes. They made sure there was tea and coffee on the go all day. We had flap jack, lemon drizzle cake and the buffet lunch was gorgeous. And of course to Seth for coming over and teaching the classes. It was a very spacious, relaxed and chilled couple of days - thanks to all.