Hello
PaperHaus friends!
Emmy here
with today’s project! It is almost
summer {even in the Netherlands} and the days are getting longer, lazier,
brighter and happier. It is also the time when children say good bye to their
kindergarten and go to school. My goddaughter is going to school in September
and I decided to create a mini album for her, where she can preserve all those
happy pictures from her last summer as our beloved little baby girl. Because as
she put it herself “coming September I’ll be big and wise, mommy”
I’ve
written down a short tutorial on how to create this mini album.
Step 1: Cover
the craft cover of your album with gesso. Allow it to dry.
Step 2:
When dry, cut out a small rectangle in the cover of the album. I wanted to give
extra dimension to my album, without making it too “fat”. That’s why I cut out
a few ‘windows’ on some of the pages. Like this you can still have dimension
and depth in your project, without worrying how to keep it safe.
Step 3:
Prepare a few pages from colorful cardstock. I usually start with two or three,
because I never know in advance which color I’ll need next.
Step 4:
While cutting and arranging your decoration elements for the cover or an inner
page, begin covering the rest of the album with gesso. Usually, waiting for the
project to the dry takes most of my time and I found out that by covering my
album pages while fussy cutting or punching my embellishments, I’m saving at
least 1 hour of waiting time (Great tip! Thanks Emmy!).
Step 5: Ink
the edges of the cardstock pieces and the edges of the album pages. Outline
where the window should be begin altering the page.
Step 6: To
create a unique mini album page you can use all the techniques you are familiar
with. I inked the edges, stamped and used Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft Art
GRIP® Aquarelle Watercolor Pencils to add some shades and colors to my
cardstock.
Step 7:
After I was satisfied with the coloring I used a water brush to brush over my
design to achieve the watercolor effect.
I hope you
enjoyed my short tutorial! You can follow these simple steps for the rest of
the album pages, but you can also add more color, modeling paste, Mod Podge,
etc. – the possibilities are endless.
Here are
some close ups of my project.
I used a
lot of fussy cut and die cut elements; flowers, brads, embossing powder, etc.
to embellish my cover.
I stamped
the butterflies on pattern paper and then I colored them with Faber-Castell
Design Memory Craft Art GRIP® Aquarelle Watercolor Pencils.
To finish
off my design I doodled the faux stitches and added liquid pearls.
I hope you
enjoyed my little tutorial today!
Come back
tomorrow for more inspiration from our design team!
Emmy
