This year is the 100th Anniversary of the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition and Alpha Stamps is Celebrating!
There is just something about postcards that scream, historical fun events, to me. So to help celebrate this event with Alpha Stamps I've created some postcards highlighting events from the Exposition. When I was done making the postcards I felt like I hadn't done enough. I've been itching to make a book accordion file so voila, the perfect way to store postcards!
The size/shape of the book was very important. It needed to not be very thick and it also needed to be larger. Mine measures 8 1/2 "long, 5 3/4" wide and 1" deep when it is closed.
The outside is decorated with papers from the Tim Holtz Destinations pack. The woman image is from the Travel Reading Collage Sheet. The extra bits are some 2mm and 3 mm Brass Flat-Back Studs, Mini Striped Grosgrain Ribbon (which I wrapped around in case the accordion gets full), and gold zig zag dresden boarders.
I'm going to do a tutorial on how I made the accordion portion of the book. I got the basics from Wings of Whimsy but ran into a few issues and have some tips.
Now onto the events postcards!
The store with Uncle Sam (at least that is who I thought he was) coming out the top is a watch store. So I ran with that. I used images from the Fun photos from the Fair Collage Sheet, Fun Vintage Pics Collage sheet, The 4th of July Collage Sheet and Tiny Vintage Letters and Postage Collage Sheet. Some of the other goodies I used were from the Tim Holtz Destinations paper pack, dazzles silver thin line stickers and tiny star sequins (all available at Alpha Stamps).
For my second postcard I used a lot of the same things as I did on the Watch Postcard. I pulled extra images from the Tiny Vintage Scrapbook Collage Sheet. The letters/ numbers that are supposed to look like typewriter keys came from the Star Crossed paper pack. I also used some postmark paper tape along the bottom and my favorite, Liquid pearls in platinum.
The folder and postcards are available to purchase together in my Etsy Shop.
Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope you enjoyed. Stay tuned for the tutorial.
4 comments:
Absolutely awesome, can't wait to see how you created the accordion book.
Love this, Caroline! I will definitely look forward to the tutorial. This looks like a lot of fun to make and I'm sure it comes in handy in the craft room to hold postcards and other papers.
I really like this, Caroline. I hope you do a tutorial - because I would like to make one.
This is fantabulous!
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