Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Handmade Album - Zoom (Allen's Hot Rods)






I finished up this album featuring the fantastic cars my brother in law -Allen gives "birth" to - It is truly is a birth process - I see this rusty ole buckets sitting in his shop and then I will either see pictures or get to see in person the fantastic transformations that he makes.  My boys are not around cars much so they don't have much to say about cars until they see "Uncle Honey's Hot Rods"  The pictures don't do justice to the real thing. I researched advertisements from every year on each car and made embellishments that matched to the year. The tabs on each page give the year of the car and the envelope has a piece of cardstock that allows all the details of the car to be written in and has room for extra pictures of before, during and after the transformation to be stored.  The cover is actually metal which allowed me to make magnets from some Tim Holz stamps and the facing page is an ad from a 1932 Sear's catalog for Craftsman Power Tools which I distressed with ink before gluing it down.  And yes those little "mini" petal cars you see in the photos were made by Allen as well for his Grandson Matthew and his Granddaughter Stella. 

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  1. Hi Monica! I couldnt find an email somewhere so I am leaving a comment here, hoping it will get to you. Just wanted to thank you so much for the kind words on my blog. Its amazing how different people are. You have lovely and sweet people like yourself, and then there are people that thrive on others flaws. I mean..seriously? WHO has time for that? I dont know about you, but i am so busy I don't have time to try and bring people down even if I wanted to! LOL! But anyway, thank you for the love and support. It means more to me than you know :) Take good care, Nadia.

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    1. Amen sister!! lol Whenever people start talking smack about other people in front of me I just tell them "I am SO flipping far from perfect that I don't judge people unless they are convicted criminals - then I just make sure they stay away from my kids..." Keep your chin up and know that to your hubby & kids you are the best thing in the world - and one hellva of a artist to boot!! Take care

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