Tuesday, December 4, 2018

A Vintage Christmas Pocket Letter


Merry Christmas Reneabouquets Fans! I am so excited that I was asked once again to be a Guest Designer for Reneabouquets, this time for the month of December! I knew I was going to have a lot of fun making pocket letters for this month. Renea has made such beautiful Christmasy items that fit perfectly in these pockets. For those that are a bit too big, they can easily be added to the outside to give it even more dimension. This is my first installment…a Vintage Christmas Pocket Letter featuring the gorgeous Blue Fern Studios Vintage Christmas paper collection Tree Trimmings and Holiday Cards. A little background about pocket letters for those of you that have never made one (and I encourage you to give it a try!)… Pocket letters have quickly become a big hit in the scrapbooking field. They were created by Janette Lane around 2014, who created them as a new way to send letters to your new or existing penpals. Basically, you fill all the pockets of a 9-pocket Trading Card Protector and send the whole page to someone who wants to swap with you. I usually type a letter about myself and then fold it up and insert it behind Pocket 5.





Before beginning to add the lovely embellishments I distressed the edges of each piece of my cut cardstock.  Then the embellishments fun begins!

I used the following products from Reneabouquets:




 ROW 1





ROW 2

 
 

Gold and White Lace (Out of Stock)


ROW 3









A little close-up of the sweet little girl on a doily…




Other products used on the Beautiful Board pieces include Zing Gold Embossing Powder, Stampendous Shabby White or Kaleidoscope Embossing Powders, Wow! Vintage Peacock Embossing Powder and Ranger Red Tinsel Embossing Powder. I also used Stardust Stickles on most of the snowflakes.  For the snow at the bottom of each pocket I tore apart cotton balls and added Renea’s Diamond Chunky Glitter Glass.

Thank you so much for stopping by. I hope I have given you some inspiration at trying to make your very own pocket letter! Hugs, Elizabeth

You can find Reneabouquets here...
Reneabouquets

Reneabouquets Etsy Shop
Reneabouquets Blog

Reneabouquets Facebook Page

No comments:

Post a Comment