Hello!!
Thanks for visiting each day! If you have been here since the beginning of the week then you already know that I am continuing on with the items that I made for my demonstration portion of our event. The products that I was showcasing were the Decor Stencils & Shimmer Paint.
This next little gem is a CASE from Kimberly VD, she did something very similar to this on her blog and I thought it was so adorable! I ordered the Christmas Ornament decor stencil collection just to make these! I modified mine just a bit (bright colors) and to be honest mine is not yet finished as I still need to decide what to do for the inside pages and more ribbon on the key ring clasp thingy.
We are cruising for the first time ever during our kids Fall Break this year. I plan to make these for both of my girls and maybe a couple for the other teenage girl friends that are also cruising. So the girls would all have little mini albums and they'd just have to pop in pictures and they could jot their journaling down while we are crusing.
This uses our long board chipboard and the Clear Bigz Scallop Square die and the Big Shot Sizzix machine and the new exclusive lower case Stampin Up "simple alphabet".
The Christmas Ornaments decor stencil, the swirly image.
Crop-a-dile, and jumbo eyelets and chocolate chip striped ribbon, 2 way glue pen and lots of dazzling diamonds glitter! Stamping Sponges and colors of your choice, mine were chocolate chip and melon mambo and Razzleberry Lemonade Designer Series Paper finish out my supplies.
This picture gives you a close up look of the stencil paste, the color sponged on and then the glitter of course! Gosh they are so addicting!
The Stencil Paste is from Stencil Ease and you can go to their website for more information or just google it! www.stencilease.com
NOTE:
SU! does not carry anything like this, so I am NOT in violation of my IDA contract as this is not a competing product. :-)
This is how it starts out. Sponge your chipboard with color of choice.
Place the stencil down and scoop out the paste with your spatula tool and pull/press it over the entire stencil and all openings. You can swirl it around like frosting to get it as thick as you want.
Then lift the stencil up away from your chipboard piece - some areas come out thicker than other, especially depending on the size of the openings in the stencil.
TIP: clean your stencil pretty quick as the paste will dry and it can "clog" the smaller openings ... this happened to me at the event. just be gentle when you clean so that you don't damage the delicate ares of the stencil. I cleaned with a baby wipe at the event, or in my sink at home w/warm water and a soft sponge.
I decided on this set up for sponging color on. Initally I was pinching my sponge so tight when I did the Linen Album (see a couple of days ago) that my fingers hurt... so I looked around my desk and wallah - here was a clip that wasn't being used.
So just squeeze your binder clip open and place your folded up sponge in there. It is a 1/4 size of a SU stampin sponge.
Here is the same image after I have sponged on Crushed Curry ink
In this picture you can see that I have used the Crop-a-Dile and added the jumbo eyelet in the corner. I trimmed Jumbo Pop-Up Glue Dots to fit underneath the chipboard letters. DSP was applied to the chipboard with a SU Glue Stick before cutting them out with the Big Shot machine.
Just a visual of the supplies that I used. Hope this helps answer some questions and it inspires you to go give it a try!!
You can get 2 scallop sqaures and have about 4" of chipboard leftover from one piece of long board chip board. The 4" piece was cut to 2 - 2" pieces which fit perfectly over the 0&9 ... so 2 covers & 2 sets of numbers! Still need the back covers and whatever I'm going to do for inside pages... am leaning towards using the "backer" board from the DSP packages for their pages.
Remind me later and I'll try to post a picture of a finished book once they're done!
Enjoy
Rhonda
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