Club Scrap - 50's Kitchen Blog Hop!

Welcome!  I hope you're ready for some retro fun with this blog hop...Club Scrap's 50's Kitchen!! This is such a fun kit with bright retro themed colors, prints and stamps!  I really enjoyed making this recipe pocket file book...

I started off by cutting (3) 10 x 13 in half...

Then I taped up the open edge with regular shipping tape and a layer of the decorative washi tape included in the kit.  Each half of the envelope had the closed in bottom cut open and they were folded at the 5" mark up from the bottom.  This creates a 5" square pocket which I'll be tucking a pull out page into and an 8" envelope with a flap...more on that later.

I went ahead and taped up every exposed edge of the envelope because it looked so nice.

I made a book cover from the pizza box and covered it with various prints.  The files are held in the book on a small accordion spine.  You can see that I trimmed up the existing flap, covered it in pattern paper and added a twine closure with a couple of brads, punched cardstock circles and a length of red and white bakers twine.  Really fun and easy.

And here' what a few of the inside pages look like...  one of the 5" pocket pages & it's pull out...

And front and backs of a few other pages...

And I didn't forget our friendly neighborhood Gnome...  

This month he's offering up a bit of sage advice....

Hope you've been inspired to create and play!

Your next stop on the hop is 

Tricia - The Efficient Crafter

Remember if you get lost along the way you can find the entire hop list on the 

Club Scrap blog.

Supply List - everything for both the book and card were made using supplies from the 50's Kitchen Collection with the additions of: Memento Inks & Markers (IMAGINE Crafts featuring Tsukineko);  (6) 10x13 Mailing Envelopes; (12) Brads; Red & White Bakers Twine; Circle Punch.