A CARD AND LETTER KEEPER

Hello, everyone!  Happy Monday!

Up until about 15-20 years ago, the yellow and white pages telephone books here in Illinois were huge!!!  In recent years they've reduced the size considerably.  However, when I was a teenager we used to take those big phone books, fold back the pages and use them to hold our vinyl records -- and no! -- not the 45's buy the big records (I think they were called LP's).  Anyone remember those?

Over the years I've seen books with pages folded back to create the look of Christmas trees, among other things; however, while browsing the internet I ran across a book which inspired me so much I decided to "lift" the idea.  I don't know who the creator is or where to go back and find the inspiration for this idea, but I'd reallylike to thank this person, and for bringing back a fond memory from my teenage days.

Here's the card and letter keeper I re-created from an old book:

This keeper, up close, is really very pretty.  I don't think you can see it in the picture but it glimmers!   I stained the pages with distress inks, sprayed and sprayed and sprayed them with Glimmer Mist, and added Stickles and glitter.  The pages and folds are so sparkly and glimmery!!!  What you're getting here is really sort of a "sneak" peek because I still need to decide who will receive this so I can put a name or initials in the label; I think too it needs something (some sort of decor) at the bottom.  Anyway, until I make these decisions, I'm going to leave it as is -- except to show you how it will look when it begins to get filled.  Would you like to see?  Okay!!!

Now, is this incentive enough to keep those old books?!!!  LOL!

I'll be back!  So,...

I'll be seeing you!