Creating Memeories

One of  my great indulgences has been paper crafting. I have loved it before it was fashionable. I have saved magazines for clip art projects for my Girls, I called it cut and glue. We have books created by them of items and sayings cut and placed together to create a page of whimsy and fun. Some were alphabetical, some were just for fun, some were content driven. But all were a placement of time and wonder into the minds of my children. I now can see the formation of who they are by these books done when they were small. I am sure they will some day treasure them like I do. I still get them out and work on mine from time to time.


I have introduced this form of fun to my  granddaughter and will to my other grandchildren when they are old enough to cut an glue.

This form of creative paper clip art was started years ago by my grandmother, she had a book we would race to when we visited her house, and spend hours in it to see what was in it. It was similar to the newly created I SPY books. She made it from clip art from magazines. Sadly that book did not survive, but I found one that is older and made from paper sacks and sewn with twine, It has great paper art from magazines clipped and pasted in a book. Very old, and one of my favorite treasures. ( Some pictures from it below) I followed the tradition with my own design and idea and newer art but fun none the less. The art of magazine art is being lost at a great rate, and this is one way to preserve it.

My passion of paper art was renewed the other day by a friend passing on her former passion of paper, she supplied me fun glitter, glue, and paper from her collection, She was changing her passion from paper to beading. I love that form of art too, but have never indulged there. My daughter wanted to make Christmas Cards this year and so for a while I was going to my favorite store Archivers to take in their workshops, and creative fun and free ideas.  
      I loved this class so much, well, I went a bit wild and bought lots of fun things from all my favorite stores, Hobby lobby, Michaels, and where ever there was crafting sales. These cards were just the first of many that we made, my daughter and I a sampling of the ones we made are here.

Specilty papers and embelshiments from my favorite makers KC and Company, are added fun, the stamps my friend had in her collection and some I bought on line,
from  www.scrapbuck.com  helped with the stamping and made it reasonable, and Papers and More online stores provided the perfect card foundation to build on.  Papers from Archivers from Graphics 45, added the vintage look that is so creative and unique. I love this so much that it has inspired me to make stacks for the other holidays and see if they would be sale-able to the area gift stores. This love of paper, that has taken my life into a new realm is fun and creative. I will continue as sales provide                                 format for my obsession. But with a bit of creative gifting for others

Happy Holidays and let the fun begin for this is the season of beauty, family, and fun.