How to Make a Loaded Vintage Gift Card Or Pocket Card For Journaling

Hi Everyone!

Learn how to make a LOADED Vintage Gift Card or Pocket Card for Journaling. Learn the easy way to fold, load and embellish a card with a vintage vibe. Choose any theme to fit your special occasion. You could give this as a gift or you could put it inside a junk journal. Journaling is a great way to be creative. As a result, this project allows you to be creative with your Paper Art and also with your Writing.

My Inspiration

Keeping a journal is also a great way to deal with grief and/or depression. Don’t forget……Writing is another form of Creating and creating is GREAT THERAPY! Read about how my Mom and I went through troubling times and how crafting helped us through it by clicking on this sentence.

I was inspired by one of my favorite YouTubers for this cute Pocket that could also be a gift or a greeting card. Let the circle of inspiration continue. I’ll post her channel name and the video name at the bottom of the page. Please go check her out.

This Facebook Video will greatly help with all the folds. It is short. Click Here for a Short Video with a quick walk through. I also have a short Idea Pin on Pinterest.

To Begin To Make a Loaded Vintage Gift Card Or Pocket Card For Journaling—-Start with Scrapbook Paper You Love

Start with scrapbook paper you love! It was a 12×12 and I cut it down to regular copy size. The example on YouTube is even smaller. These scrapbook pages are thick and the backside is plain brown as you can see when I start folding it. Pictures of the supplies are down at the bottom of the blog page.

First Fold

Second Fold

Final Fold

Please refer to the video linked above for the final fold. There are two ways to do it and the video is much better at showing how. JUST REMEMBER, as you make the final fold, put the two “mountain peaks” at the top and fold the two bottom pieces in toward the center.

Filling the Inside of the Pocket

When I was finished folding all my favorite images had disappeared. So I selected another same exact paper and made several inserts to go inside all the pockets. The first one I made was the tall tag for the back pocket. I wanted it to be strong so I doubled the layers. Below is a picture of how I was determining to place a charm on it. The inspiration piece used metal grommets and a bracelet chain. I did not have that option so I used buttons and an old necklace with beads. The quote “With brave wings she flies” was added and it became a vintage butterfly theme.

Second Insert

The second insert is two butterfly images from the same booklet of scrapbook pages. I just cut them to fit into the second pocket and added “Don’t forget to fly” quote at the top. The quotes are from a Tim Holtz collection pictured below. On the right side of the pocket I glued another butterfly that would show even with all the inserts inside. I also made the back more sturdy and used Liquitex Gel Medium to double side a portion of the backside. Below is a picture of the pocket after adding the butterfly on the right hand side.

Next Insert

My next step was to make a small tag for the next pocket. A tag with lace and ribbon was needed to grab onto as people pull in and out of the pocket. A wooden tag was in my stash and just the right size. I inked the raw wood and then added a butterfly, quote, lace and ribbons. A charm was added and helps weigh and keep all the ribbons together.

Last Insert

The small front pocket needed a flower of some kind. But I wanted to put a scrap snippet on it. Snippets are made from little scraps of anything. I used lace, paper and two buttons. These are fun to make and use up some of your scraps. Organically tear your paper so you do not have any straight edges.

Below is a picture of a flat lay with all the components. The last step was to add lace edging around the two main pockets and to ink all the edges front and back with Ranger Distressed Oxide in Vintage Photo. This was worked on– off and on for a whole weekend. I used my stash.

Supplies – for – How to Make a Loaded Vintage Gift Card Or Pocket Card For Journaling

Below are some pictures of the supplies I used. I also used Mod Podge, Gel Medium and Fabric Tack.

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