I just posted this project on the Clear Scraps Blog :
It's the finished owl! So if you have a minute, go head on over there and see all the inside pages!
I also just finished my "Thankful" album and thought I would share the "tutorial" here.
I used the Chatterbox wood album (which I LOVE) and created a very ARTSY album:
Now the outside doesn't give away the "artsy" look inside but I tell you, it was FUN to play around with this album. It comes with 6 heavy pages and 2 paper pages. I didn't use the lighter weight pages because they curl too much when painting on them.
Here's what I did:
I didn't start taking pictures until the backside so that's why it's a little ahead in the steps...
1. Pick 3 Autumn paint colors and get a small bowl of water and watercolor paintbrush.
2. Dip paintbrush into the water and pick one color of paint to mix it with. (note: I'm not a trained professional, so there may be WAY better ways to do this...)
3. Mix water with paint until the paint is diluted.
4. Using up and down brush strokes, paint the whole page, making sure it is evenly painted.
5. This process can be messy (my washer is jacked up now ;)- Check the other side of the page to make sure you wipe off excess paint that ran to other side. (notice picture above... didn't do that so good 1st time around...)
6. Continue this process with each color until all pages are painted. If they curl up like this, let them dry and then place under a heavy item for a few hours or overnight.
7. O.k. this is where it gets really "artsy"... Take some Golden Gel Medium and using a foam brush, brush over the area on the page you are going to place your VINTAGE music paper or VINTAGE dictionary page ( VINTAGE book pages would be cool too Dawn ;)- Let set for about 5 minutes.
8. Now take masking tape and RANDOMLY place pieces on your page. Then use your bone folder to rub the tape into the vintage papers. Let set about 10 minutes.
9. Do this with every page...
10. Then start peeling the tape up, going in different directions as you do this.
11. Do this with all the pages. FYI... it looks a little "funky" right now, but trust me...
12. These next two steps are not necessary but add more dimension to your pages. I took a FAV stamp and stamped over ONLY the vintage dictionary paper on the RIGHT side pages. (I tried this ink 1st but actually switched to Stayz On in Timber.)
13. O.k. most people don't have this and it's not critical in this album but it IS FUN and you can get it at Michaels or JoAnns. It's dimensional paint and it is COOL! I've played with this a few years back and just happened to see it in my paint cabinet and thought I'd try it... Basically you need a stencil and a flat painting tool. You put the stencil over the area you want (I did it ONLY of the LEFT side pages OVER the vintage music), take some of the paint and cover the stencil with it, spreading it out with the paint tool, or popsicle stick to an even amount and then lift up the stencil! It dries in about 20 minutes and adds a GREAT texture to the page!
I did this to all the LEFT sided pages.
14. Then I took some lighter colored paint and very lightly painted over the vintage papers and created a "framed edge" around each piece as well as giving the papers a muted look.
O.k. now the messy part is DONE! Now it's back to "scrapbooking" and I played around with mostly Making Memories products. Here's a look at some of the inside pages:
I want to point out one thing on this inside cover page. The MM glitter letters were too big for the word blessing so I mixed them with some old MLS brown letters and then used some Tim Holtz distressed stickles on top of them and it blends right in!
I tried to keep each page very simple because I wanted to the artsy look to show through. Each right sided page and each left sided page have about the same "look" to them to give it uniformity as well...
This book was about my BLESSINGS in 2009. There are WAY more that I could put in here, but this is a highlight of some of them... Ella was definately at the TOP of the list!
Of course our 20th Wedding Anniversary trip to Europe had to go in this book too!
Being asked to participate in some WONDERFUL events this year was incredible! I am honored to be a part of this ART FORM and to share that will others is truley one of the best blessings!
We had a blast in Michigan this summer and it was another change to see Ella and the family and for Victoria to do the SERVE project through Ty's church.
How could I forget my 3 beauties! They are the blessings I LOVE MOST!
and... I'll always have PARIS. hehehe... Had to throw that one in there too!
Hope you like the tutuorial and have some FUN with this album if you have it! The wood album is PERFECT for an Autumn or Thankful theme! I'm not sure if I have very many left, but if I do, they will be up on the blog on the REVEAL night!
Speaking of the REVEAL... I'm still waiting on the Collage Press, but I should have it next week. It won't give the DT time to work with it, but I will have a VERY LIMITED number of kits of that along with the Melody Ross kit!
The REVEAL will be on MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9th at 7PM PST! I'm NOT doing it on Sunday b/c that is church and family day and it just doesn't work out good on Sunday. So MONDAY, 11/9/09... 7PM PST SHARP!!
Hugs to all,
Laura
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