Today I want to share a memory type book I was asked to make by
a lady whose son was turning 21 and she just couldn’t find anything that summed
him up.
She told me her son was VW beetles and VW campervan crazy and
was actually rebuilding one in red, white and blue.
So that was my challenge
I knew I had some papers that were actually free in a Do Crafts
magazine some time ago – Portobello Road, it had Union flags, postcards,
stripes and of course plain colours red, white and blue.
I folded 2 A4 sheets of card in half and stuck one side to the
other card making 3 work spaces on the front and the back.
I started on the front page which I covered with a flag paper,
then die cut a mat using red card then a verse on a size smaller die, these
were attached to the card using DST.
I used Google to search for VW and after finding suitable images
I resized and printed onto matt photo paper, rounded the corners and added
under the verse.
I printed out some VW blueprints and used them as backing paper
for the inside left and right pages after 1st inking the card. On the
left side I cut out cogs using black card and added them randomly across the
page and used some of the waste in the top and bottom corners.
On the right hand side I used some Tim Holtz tickets and the end result said “Live The Dream, Wish
Every Day, Story Of Love And Hope”
And then the centre page I made a collage of different sections
of a VW Beetle, stamped Matthew onto white card then used red and blue distress
ink to randomly colour the letters, then heat embossed with clear embossing
powder and then stuck down the card. I used an MDF circle which I drilled holes
in and used as a button, I stamped Happy Birthday on the button, rubbed over
with versamark and clear embossing powder, I added some butchers twine and tied
it on the top then stuck to the card, 21st was stuck alongside the button.
On the reverse I made a collage using the blueprint and images,
faded it out then stuck to a blue mat and finally onto the card. I stamped VW
beetles and words over the paper and cut out a Happy Birthday panel from red, white,
blue paper and stuck at the bottom.
The final sheet was another verse which I made long and narrow
so it could go to one side of the page, postcard paper was stuck onto the card
then a panel of red was stuck to the left side, the image cut out with scallop
scissors and stuck over it.
I glittered an MDF star then stamped a VW Beetle onto shrink
plastic, coloured it and trimmed before heating it till it shrunk to a perfect
size. This was attached to the star then star to the card
Black peel offs were used along the spines with name & date
of his birthday
The lady loved the card so much and has since passed my details
onto several of her family and friends.
See you again tomorrow with another of my creations xxx