Scraps Of Time

i won!

hi everyone, just had to share...

last summer when polly came down for a visit, seems so long ago, i miss you polly! she got me on facebook. it's a great way to see what your family is up too, and to keep in contact with friends and play games- yoville is a blast! i still haven't been able to figure out all the in's and outs of it but, i am trying. i am using it for posting listings and eventually some pictures of projects, and hearing what you all have to say, or what you are up to. i would love to be able to see some projects and creations of yours from the items you purchase from my etsy shop, and to hear what you would like to see for sell in the future. it would be fun to be able to interact and get to know you. please add me as a friend if you have an account so we can keep in-touch.

anyyywaaay, the reason i am talking about facebook is, i added " scraplovers-purveyor of fine scrapbook, altered arts & mixed media products"  as a friend, suggested by a sweet lady client, and i get updates to their page, which i have been enjoying and sharing. well, a couple of days ago, i was contacted by them and was told i had won a $50.00 gift certificate to their store! i am very excited and wanted to go shopping last night, but wasn't able to, so i am hoping for today, aren't prizes fun!? thank you for this wonderful prize!

i just had to share this tutorial by rhonda palazzari at "miss fancy pants" don't you love this idea? i was doing my normal coffee drinking(guzzling), morning mail reading and came across this in my scrapscene newsletter, which i love; we all have so much "scrap" paper. i can't toss any scraps out that are over 3", okay, okay, sometimes 2"  in size, it gets frustrating, now with all my christmas scraps, i can create these wonderful poinsettias, yeah!

so, time to get to work, enjoy your fall day, thanks for visiting! later... -rebecca

happy halloween!

                            

new notables

                          

been busy binding  all those vintage book covers, bingo boxes and other goodies into useful notebook notables, and making room in my cupboard so all my other stuff can fit. sound familiar? geesh, still not done, it's never ending, lol! i love my zutter binding machine! i am in the process of posting these little sketch/notebooks into my etsy shop, under "journals, kits and notebooks" then... on with christmas...

i found some random pictures that i sized but haven't posted so i thought i would share these too, starting with last summer.

 

i bought a bunch of these little shaped chipboard albums at michaels because they had a great sale- i think they were 2 for a $1.00, anyway,they were so much fun to add pictures to.

  

of course, we didn't miss our annual state fair visit. it's always fun to see the harvests, color, gadgets and toys, horses, cows, sheep, smell the food and naturally eat the food, it always tasts better at the fair.

                       

i took these one morning in september. when i came outside with a cup of coffee, steve had this little stack of wood piled, ready for our fireplace- true sign of fall, and our little visitors were getting more aggressive with their nut collecting.

and last week, at megs special olympics "bowl-a-rama" she took third place with a bronze. the last is a picture of her coaches(minus jess) getting in the spirit, i love these guys- totally dedicated( the 2 ladies are special ed teachers) fun, encouraging, supportive,  and real advocates of their athletes!

time to go post the notables, thanks for visiting, enjoy your weekend! -rebecca

past pages ephemera altered book done-yeah!

geesh, if you can relax for a bit, here is the finished book in photos that i have finally listed here, lol. it is an 1881 mathematics book to which i have added 39 pages of ephemera and 3 matchbox drawers.

the cover was a toughie for me with this one, not sure why... i wanted to leave the pages and ephemera pieces untouched so whomever wishes to adopt/adapt this as their own, can distress or alter each page to their own ideas, so i thought the cover should be that way too, but in the end after behaving myself with the pages, i just had to ink the edges of the image, i am weird, i know, anyway here we go with 23 photos...

                                                

cover with tapestry covered spine, a metal number plate and a picture from a vintage childrens book from the 1800's.

                                                  

book standing showing drawers with velvet pulls

                                 
the front flyleaf has an inscription written it the wonderful writing of this time: winnie m. blair, elk point dak

                                   

this bird picture is from a 1950's audubon society  book.

                                

a musical game card with an 1800's blank check slipped into the pocket the facing page has a pocket created with an 1888's  ledger paper that has been covered with clippings from an early 1900's newspaper, now that is what i call recycling!

                                

these pages have pockets created from an 1800's children's book and a cartes-de-vistes by r.h.barrett & son, george street, glouchester

                                                   

there is a fun egg saver envelope attaced to this pocket with a tiny paper clip.

                                            

there are 9 pages of this 1929 ledger paper to write on

                                             

this is an air mail envelope with a sheetof stationary from the hotel viking in oslo.

                                            

i created a pocket here from a long vintage flashcard

                                           

a part of a letter, a poem, i believe called "my mother" is on the left hand page and a pocket created  from another page of that ledger paper from the 1800's, with fun ephemera goodies tucked in on the right hand page.

                                          

a pocket created from a vintage music book cover with a music tag tucked in the pocket

                                        

7 pages from a small ledger book.

                                           

these two pages have pictures from an 1800's children's book...

                                             

and a side pocket.

                                       

2 more page and...

                                    

another side pocket                             

                                   

a bingo calling sheet and 3 coin envelope pockets

                                   

a music sheet with bottom pockets

                             

3 matchbox drawers with little vintage goodies hiding inside

                              

another view...

                                     

and another...

                                           

the spine with tapestry cover

i hope someone will be able to use this altered book to hold  memorabilia, ideas, and thoughts. you can add stamp work, paintings, images, lace, ribbon and ink to these pages and have your own unique journal.

since the pages are created from vintage papers, they are not acid free and any photographs that you add should be copies or protected in sleeves.

i hope you had fun looking at this book, actually i hope i can inspire you to create one for yourself! have any vintage papers from your great grandma's and grandpa's? your grandma and grandpa's? have little rings or goodies that could find a home in drawers in a book? if you create pages out of scrapbook papers, they will be acid free and you could store all of your precious vintage photos on the pages and in pockets.

well, heading to bed now, hope all is well where you are! thanks again for stopping by, good night. -rebecca

new spooky haunted house chipboard mini album "mischief and mayhem"

so here is the newest little halloween album, "mischief and mayhem" ooooh:

                                    

                                                 "mischief and mayhem"

this mini album is 6" X 8" from the top of the moon to the bottom of the album, but each page layout is actually 6" X 3.25 , with 8 hand-cut pages plus the front cover.

                          

                                                               pages 1 & 2

 flocked spider webs cover these pages with a side pocket on page 2

                          

                                                                pages 3 & 4

these two "skeleton" pages have 1 pocket on each page. on page 3 is a skeleton hand holding a double-side tag with a vintage postcard image on one side and bazzill card-stock on the reverse. on page 4 the pocket is a spooky skull which has 2 tags tucked in behind, one with a "poison" label image on the front and the other with a recipe for "dead mans toe pie" yuck. they both have  bazzill card-stock on the back. i picked up  potion and label images from this website "love manor" last year, are these cool or what?

                          

                                                                 pages 5 & 6

the witches pages have 2 pockets with 2 tags. both tags and pockets were created with vintage postcard images on the front and bazzill card-stock on the back. a bat in flight is attached to the upper corner of page 6.

                          

                                                                 pages 7 & 8

the "bat" pages have bat pockets and black mats behind them, ready for your photos. there is a witch riding her broomstick in front of the moon and a clock that has a mini metal hand pointing to midnight- boo!

                            

                                                                    the 6 tags

thank you for peeking i will be listing this in my etsy shop tonight. back to work- how does a edger allen poe altered book sound- "nevermore", hmmm, i'm working on it. night all, thank you, thank you! -rebecca

free vintage halloween postcard images for you

enjoy!

                                    

                        

                      

                      

                

new halloween chipboard mini album

so, here is my next listing in etsy:

                                             

                                                    cover of "all hallow's eve"

this cover has 2 little pockets with a tag tucked in one of them. this chipboard album measures 3.5" X 5.5" with 12 "hand cut" pages plus front and back covers, 16 pockets and 2 photo mats.

                           

                                                                   pages 1 &2

2 pockets on these "bat" pages

                           

                                                                 pages 3 & 4

these scary "poison"  pages have a "kinda" pocket on page 3 with a scary poison label clipped on and a pocket on page 4

                           

                                                                  pages 5 & 6

2 pockets on each of these "spider web" pages. the spider webs create pockets as do the word papers. each page has a tag tucked in.

                           

                                                                 pages 7 & 8

2 pockets on these "skeleton" pages with tags tucked in.

                           

                                                                 pages 9 & 10

these two "raven" pages are journaling mats for telling of your spooky night activities or for photos to be attached with photo corners, glue, clips or tape.

                           

                                                                pages 11 & 12

2 pockets on each of these "witch" page with a witchy chipboard button.

                           

                                                                       6 tags

all tags are double-sided with printed vintage halloween postcard images on one side and black bazzill card-stock on the back.

                                 

                                                   "all hallow's eve" open

thank you for looking! i will be getting back to work taking pictures of the "walk into my parlor"  chipboard album kit. have a great evening! -rebecca                                                   

2 new halloween albums and a kit -yeah!

hi all, hope everyone is enjoying these cool (literally here) autumn days. the trees are turning now, very slow for this time of year, and it is gorgeous, ohmygosh! i have been busy, busy, busy creating and it feels great!

this "walk into my parlor..."  halloween album is listed in my etsy shop here and later i will list the kit from this album and another little halloween album that i just  couldn't resist making.

i now have the "walk into my parlor" halloween chipboard album kit available in my etsy shop here

                                

all the goodies in the new "walk into my parlor" halloween chipboard album kit that will create this...

                                        

                                          "walk into my parlor" cover

with a sparkly spiders web, a  big hairy spider- BOO!, hand-stamped words from a well known poem by Mary Howitt. ! this album measures 5.5" X  8.5"  and has  8 uniquely designed pages(not including the covers) 17 photo/journaling pockets, 9 large, double-sided tags with printed vintage Halloween postcard images on the front and Bazzill card-stock on the reverse. 3 tags for journaling,  4 various word/image tags,     

                                           

another view...

                                              

                                                               page 1

has a little "bat" tag that can be used to slip in a photo, ticket, or name/date label perhaps.

                     

                                                           pages 2 & 3

5 pockets and 4 tags decorate these pages along with 2 tiny charms of a skull and a star, that hang off of the chipboard bat. i will try and get a good close-up shot and post it here.

                    

                                                         pages 4 & 5

5 pockets on these pages also with 3 tucked in tags. the little tag on the front of the pockets on page 4 is embellished with an embroidery spider web and dangly spider attached.

                       

                                                             pages 7 & 8

2 spooky pockets on these pages with 2 large skeleton tags and a hanging skeleton head.

                                        

                                                                 page 6

4 pockets with a witch tag. these pckets are shallow, so you can layer photos.

                         

                                           9 large double-sided tags

i will be offering this album as a kit, i just have to take pictures and edit them into here, geesh! come back tomorrow and take a peek, i think you will have fun putting this kit together! thanks a bunch everyone! -rebecca

new halloween album kit

 a new halloween album kit add-on  listed here and the "trick or treat" pocket pages album kit  here for spooky little monster photos:

                           

by using this "trick or treat" halloween album kit add-on with this..

                             

"trick or treat" pocket pages album kit to create this                               

                                      

finished album, you may create this halloween pocket pages album:

                               

"trick or treat" cover with velvet binding ribbon, 2 little buttons and an orange flower with a sweet vintage image center. this completed album is listed in my etsy shop here

               

pages 1 and 2 have 2 pockets and some spooky purple felt  bats on the pocket covers

                 

                

pages 3 and 4 have 2 pocket

                 

pages 5 and 6 have 4 pockets with 2 vintage postcard images on 2 tags tucked in 2 pockets and a little matchbook album tucked into another pocket

                               

removable 2.5" X 2.75" matchbook  with 6 bazzill card-stock pages

 

               

the tags which are backed with bazzill card-stock and little album       

thanks for taking a peek! back to work for me! -rebecca                                                                                         

new halloween album "witches, spiders and bats, oh my!"

 here is the new halloween album i just listed on etsy. this  3.5" X 6" hand cut, halloween chipboard album has 16 pages, 12 pockets and 4 photo mats.

                    

                    cover of  "witches, spiders and bats, oh my!"

                    there is a spooky flower created from "rusty

                    pickle" and "my minds eye" papers, and a

                    creepy little skeleton head hanging from the

                    metal spiral binding. boo!

                   

                                                pages 1 & 2

                   there is 1 photo mat and a pocket on these

                   two pages

                  

                                                   pages 3 & 4

                 2 photo mats decorate these pages with 1

                 spooky metal spider on page 3  and a paper

                 spider on page 4.

                

                                                 pages 5 & 6

                2 pockets on these pages.

                  

                                                    pages 7 & 8

                 2 tree pockets created from "my mind's eye"

                 "spiders web" collection on pages 7 & 8.

                

                                                  pages 9 & 10

                2 more pockets created with the "rusty pickle"

                "adams family" halloween paper collection.

                

                                                 pages 11 & 12

                2 purple polka - dot pockets here- spooky!

                

                                                 pages 13 & 14

               2 pockets on these kitty pages

                

                                               pages 15 & 16

                a photo mat and a haunted mansion pocket on

               these last pages

                         

                       "witches, spiders and bats, oh my!" open

thank you guys for taking a look, have a great wednesday- create! -rebecca