Vintage Gluebook Swap at Green Paper

I signed up for the swap at Green Paper hosted by Mary Green.

You had to make six 5x7 pages to be swapped out by Mary.   She will be

making a book for each of the swappers , using old book covers for

our glue books.  We were to use old papers and images with no 3D decorations.

Since I belong to Mary's Green Paper Collage club  I had lots of vintage

images to use.   I used actual old papers for most of my backgrounds

and copied images for my focal points.  I used 140 lb watercolor paper

as my base paper, as suggested by Mary.  I made seven pages (an extra one for Mary),

and also decorated the backs.

This is the first one that I made as part of Mary's September challenge.

I followed the glue book rules so I could use it for the challenge and

the book.

Isn't she just the sweetest little girl?

I love to outline my cards, etc with a brown ink.

In fact, I just had to throw out my favorite coffee

bean brown stamp pad.  It was all ragged and had no

ink left in it.  I have never been able to find another

one that compares in color, even those called coffee bean

are not the same shade as my favorite was.

I thought she looked like an angel.  Perhaps

I should have given her wings.

I put the dairy coupon on this, because I

thought of her as the farmer's daughter.

I added the " little cable"  to look like an

arbor in the garden.

I used the actual Western (that really is a r and an n)

Union telegram  to show that this was an

important event for her.

This  is an example of one of the backs.

Check out Mary's blog Green Paper she has examples of

glue book pages that she has done.