Snowman Pocket Letter

Leaning toward my usual of course, added some vintage photos, vintage ads, and I decided to do some paper piecing and build a three card tall snowman for this page.  Added some blinged out snowflake stickers to the outside of the pocket page - like the effect!

Christmas Card Pocket Letters

The challenge was to use Christmas cards that were received and cut them up into pocket letter pockets, using various parts of the cards - pictures, greetings, etc.  This was a lot of fun and I got a bit carried away, but I was able to use up some cards that I received duplicates of and lots of washi tape, a few stickers and then I cut the inside greetings into chucks and added those to my layout. I was very pleased with the outcome, it was nice to give another life to all those Christmas cards that I save and don't quite do anything with.  I am signed up for 2 swaps with this theme and then I will need to find some partners for the rest that I made.

Elves, Elves, Elves

Any kind of elf images were fair game for this pocket letter (along with my usual papers and washi tapes).  I included Santa in the center as he is a jolly ole elf.(I found a couple of cute elf paper dolls that I shrunk down to put in the back pockets.)

Christmas Pocket Letters

I had a lot of fun with all my favorites - patterned paper, vintage images and washi tape.  I did add some die cut text and a few stickers here and there.

Nine Days of Christmas Pocket Letter

I used patterned paper, vintage images, washi tape, ribbon, and fabric trims - braided, rick rack,metallic.  The cute twist to this pocket letter was the 9 days theme, on the pocket backs in pocket 1, I put my 1 note, pocket 2 - 2 stickers, pocket 5 - 5 washi tape samples, etc.

Egypt Pocket Letter

I used images of ancient artifacts, vintage travel posters, photographs, patterned papers, and washi tape.

Thanksgiving Pocket Letter

I used a lot of fun stickers for this one, washi tape, patterned papers, foam stickers, and ribbon.

Origami Dresses Pocket Letter

Patterned paper, origami papers, washi tape for dress trimmings, braid, rick rack, and ribbon for dress trimmings also.  I  tried to make each dress different, so it was a good challenge.  

Halloween Pocket Pages

I found these very cool full page collages and added washi tape and stickers and bling and pearls - very happy with how they turned out!

Halloween Whimsy Jar

This was done for a swap I participated in on swap-bot.  I filled my jar with Halloween colored fibers and Halloween patterned ribbons; lots of pumpkins - felt, foam, and plastic; skulls and a skeletal hand, a coffin, spiders, google-y eyeballs, a finger, some cute little Halloween clothespin clips, stickers and beads.  I decorated the top with patterned paper, stickers, a miniature black crow, ribbon, beading, fibers, a large glittery spider clip, and a Halloween tag.

Moulin Rouge Pocket Letter

I used vintage photographs, and poster images on patterned papers, washi tape, and some lettering stickers.

Land of the Fae Pocket Letter

Had fun using several larger images in this one, and lots of bling. Basically let the photos do all the work.

Flamingo Pocket Letter

I decided to try using a large image for this one and I really like how it turned out.  I also used some vintage  images from ads,and a colorful graphic I found, patterned papers, washi tape and some bling to top things off.

1920"s Flapper Pocket Letter

So I looked for images of 1920's flappers and fashions and found photos and ads and fashion sketches to use. I used washi tape, die cuts and a lot of bling.   I decided to throw in some 1920's slang and hand lettered a different phase or word on each  with the definitions on the back.  Pocket 1-"Cat's Meow" means something splendid or stylish, the greatest, wonderful.  Pocket 2 - "Now you're on the trolley!" means "Now you've got, now you're right." Pocket 3 - "Hotsy Totsy" means pleasing.  Pocket 4 - "Copacetic" means wonderful, fine, all right.  Pocket 5 - "Glad rags" means "going out on the town" clothes.  Pocket 6 - "Keen" means attractive or appealing.  Pocket 7 - "Cash or check" means "Do you kiss now or later".  Pocket 8 - "Bee's knees" means an extraordinary person, thing, idea; the ultimate.  Pocket 9 - "Flapper" means stylish, brash, hedonistic woman with short skirts and shorter hair.

Wizard of Oz

This was a lot of fun, I tried using different images than I usually lean towards, so I found some poster images, and some die cuts of Dorothy and her shoes, I also drew the scarecrow - top left, the lion - top right, and the tin man -bottom middle, using sharpie and copic markers.

Alice in Wonderland Pocket Letter

 

This was a combination of vintage images and hand drawn characters that I did with colored pencil and marker.  I drew the lobster - top left, the bird - top right, the queen - center, the mad hatter - bottom left, and the white rabbit - bottom right.

Circus Pocket Letter

This was a lot of fun.  I found some wonderful circus stickers and I used three clown ATC's that I drew using permanent markers.  Lots of red and white!

Sunflower Pocket Letter

I looked first for vintage seed packet images, then I hunted through my die cut images for some sunflower shapes.  To this I added washi tapes, some glitter pen and a little paper flower.

Hello Kitty Pocket Letter

My best friend loves Hello Kitty so I had to do this one so that I could make and extra one for her and she was tickled when she got it.  I used clip art images, patterned papers, washi tape, lots of pink, die cut paper borders, paper flowers, and flower stickers with bling.

Cupcake Pocket Letter

There is something so appealing about the cupcake image to me, so I knew I had to do this pocket letter.  I used bright colors patterned papers, washi tapes, and clip art images of cupcakes - delicious!

Ragdoll ATC's

Hand drawn with Sharpie pen colored with Bic permanent marker.

Tim Holtz Style Pocket Letter

Used Tim Holtz papers exclusively, also his vintage photos, tissue tape, and several of his stamps.

Washi Tape Pocket Letter

The challenge here was to try different things with washi tape. Pocket one - criss crossed plaid background, pocket 2 - made the skirts of the women pictured out of washi tape, pocket 3 - covered the background with diagonal strips of pink washi tape added an image and a tape border, pocket 4 - laid down two colors of washi tape and stamped an image over the top, pocket 5 - horizontal flags in earthtones added wordsover the top, pocket 6 - an owl's body made up of purple washi tapes, pocket 7 - pleated washi tape to form a flower, pocket 8 - vertical black and white angled strips on the background die cut flower and word over top, and pocket 9 - horizontal strips of grays and whites with a die cut layered over the top.

Hamsa Hand ATC's

We had to come up with 3 different Hamsa hand designs for this swap, I used Sharpie pen and Bic permanent markers to hand draw and color my images.

Minions Pocket Letter

I used clip art images, patterned paper and lots of washi tape for this one.

Curiosity Cabinet ATC 3

I used clear acetate to create actual windows for my cabinet.  This cabinet I chose to fill with sea shells.  This cabinet represents more what an actual curiosity cabinet would look like. My other two cabinets while holding collections were more artistic license to my mind.

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Curiosity Cabinet ATC 2

I used clear acetate to create actual windows for my cabinet. I filled this cabinet with images of Marie Antoinette.

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Curiosity Cabinet ATC 1

I used clear acetate to create actual windows for my cabinet.  This cabinet I filled with vintage labels.

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