I registered for Mary Green's Vintage Gluebook page Swap last month, even though I was not positive I could do it ...this swap sounded so good, I just could not resist signing up. So, I was very happy to be able to complete my work for the swap and send it off to Mary today. I made six 5" x 7" pages to swap and an extra gluebook page for Mary, for her own book. To create these, I used what Mary had taught me in her online class ‘Your Vintage GlueBook’ and added my own style to them to make my swap pages.

Above, the woman in the purple hat is from Alpha Stamps and printed on fabric. Each page has a strip of a dictionary over-print (tan with colorful birds, feathers) that I received as part of Mary Green's Collage Club. I printed this collage sheet from Mary on vellum paper so you could see through to my background papers. 

 Above is a transparency I printed myself from an old postcard and postage stamps gifted to me from my friend Joanna Urbani, thank you!

The blue strip is the spine of an old book that had fallen off. The image in the center is from ARTchix Studio.

The "Across the Snow" page is again, from Joanna. xoxo The transparency of the woman and the bird image are from ARTchix Studio

Each page has a quote. Most of them are from my own ‘LennaLines’ quote rubber stamps, which I no longer have as a business, but still use quite often! 

This page uses an old map, ARTchix Studio image, postage stamps, a bit of Distress Ink.

I love this page! It makes me smile. They all started with a single background page, glued to a piece of sturdy paper.

 Then I added a few items to each page.... Click for detail.

Then, I brought these pages and my traveling art kit over to my parents house the other day. My mom had some errands she needed to do and while my dad was sleeping, so I worked on these pages in the spare room. This was the best thing I could have done for myself. Dad did wake up and I was there, but in the meantime, I could work on these and free my mind. I highly recommend doing art as therapy.

The backs are done on the computer, but then printed onto paper I received from Mary Green in her classes, or from the Collage Club. I used 3 different kinds of paper.

I really enjoyed creating these pages for the Vintage Gluebook page Swap and so look forward to receiving my returns! Besides my six swapped pages, Mary is adding some additional vintage papers and a vintage book cover, wow! Thank you, Mary.