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"Vintage" Marriage License Pocket Page From "Scrapbooking" episode SCB-501

Project by Beth Cote.

Most marriage licenses are large or legal-size documents that won’t fit on a scrapbook page--and forget looking pretty! Give your own marriage license a vintage look and develop a pocket page perfect for a wedding album. Store a true-to-size version of the license, your invitation, a note from your bridesmaid(s), and the handkerchief your father gave you so wouldn’t run your makeup before you walked down the isle--or any other special memento you want to remember.

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Materials:

color copies of marriage license *
woodworking file or small-grit sandpaper
coarse sandpaper
gesso
sponge
Beth Cote for Tapestry lavender and lace collage paper
2 old large, flat buttons
2 old white buttons
two 4" square cellophane envelopes
12" of 1" wide light brown ribbon
12" x 12" piece of dark brown card stock
Therm-o-Web 1/2" Supertape
Crafter’s Pick the Ultimate glue

* on Prism pale rose card stock and cream with fleck card stock

1. Copy the outside panel of your license onto pale rose card stock using a copier, or scan and print out the panel from your home computer.
Note: If your marriage license doesn’t have an outside panel or you don’t like it, use the blank template in the PDF file at the right. Copy as much as you can of the whole license onto a cream flecked card stock. We will cut this one into squares.

	PDF Click to download and print the license art.
	Figure A
	Figure B
	Alternative Design: Three Friends
	Alternative Design: Love Letters
	Alternative Design: Baby Boy Birth Certificate

2. Copy the whole document onto large copy paper and include both sides. This one we will put inside the envelope.

3. Cut out documents close to the original lines and fold.

4. On the outside edges of the small rose panel, burn corners and one edge of the document.

5. Make pinch folds on the edges of the rose panel as well. File the folds with a file or rasp. If some of the paper rips, this is good.

6. Whitewash the documents with gesso (figure A). Be careful not to use a heavy hand. Wipe some of the gesso off the sponge before you apply it to the panel. You can wipe and dot the gesso around the edges. Be careful not to cover up your names and dates. Of course, if there is some kind of unsightly mistake on the panel, cover it with the gesso.

7. If wanted, scratch through the gesso with coarse sandpaper.

8. Using lavender and lace collage paper, fold under 1 inch on the right side. Glue shut. This will be the lip of our pocket, and we want the paper reinforced here against ripping.

9. Place 1/8-inch-thick heavy-duty double-sided tape on the edge of the three sides of the back of the pocket page. Do not tape the folded edge. This is the opening of your pocket.

10. Tape collage pocket to your card stock background page.

11. Cut a 1-inch slit in both the top and bottom of the aged marriage license panel. The slit needs to be about 1/2 inch from the edge of the paper.

12. Cut your ribbon in half. Thread one piece through the bottom slit. Glue or tape the ribbon end to itself so the ribbon creates a loop and then glue buttons to the ribbon with heavy-duty craft glue. You could also sew the buttons to the ribbons and not glue at all. (figure B) Do this to the top slit as well.

13. Cut two 4-inch squares out of your cream card stock marriage license. Note: If you are using cellophane envelopes that are a different size, cut the card stock to fit these envelopes. Slip into envelopes.

14. Layout marriage license and ribbons on collage pocket. Slip cellophane envelopes under license and glue. Glue left side of license down. Tape ribbons under card stock.

RESOURCES :

More Ephemera! The Ephemera Book 2 and More Ephemera CD
by Beth Cote
Book #5233
Design Originals
Website: www.d-originals.com

Lavender and Lace Paper Collection by Beth Cote
Tapestry by CR Gibson
Website: www.tapestrybycrgibson.com

Rose and Dark Suede Prism Papers
Prism Paper
Website: www.prismpapers.com

GUESTS :

Beth Cote
Artist, Beth Cote Paper Arts
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