Dream and soar

Today is my niece Giselle's birthday and I was reminded of  a photo that I took at baby Charis' first birthday. We had lots of balloons and both Elpis and Giselle took a photo together. I had an empty box that held a mini diary I own, and I could not resist altering it into this.

I did not have any Prima flowers on hand when I made this, so I had to handmake my own roses from the remainder paper. I use some Kaisercraft Timeless paper on this, and used the scraps to make the roses and leaves, punch the butterflies; oh and that little mini clockface in the bottom corner? yes that's from scraps too.



 Close up so you can see it's really from scrap Timeless paper. And yes the twirlies too. I had to Helmar 450 everything down. My best friend!

materials : Kaisercraft paper and stamps, Tim holtz tickets, washi masking tape, ribbon, transparency.

Memories in a book

I did this as I wanted to gift something to my wonderful sister-in-law Caroline and also partly as a challenge to myself to produce a mini that would be both experimental in the use of materials and mediums. Made 99% from Kaisercraft's range of products, I did this over a few nights and was very happy with the end results.  Do let me know what you think.





Made in the style of travel tabs and journal books.





Paints, blending, stamping, stickles, dimensional paints, handrawing, punching





Painted edges, punched decorative edges, hand-drawn and glitterised rainbow





Flap and folder page.





Hidden pockets all open.





 Photo layering of colored on black/white, finished with clear crackle paint, burnished with Dimensional paint on the edges, and rubbed with rock candy stickles, and popped with pop dots. I wanted the make the photo have a magical feel that Disney always wanted to give.




 Stamping with crackle paint.


 
How it looks, upright. Tabs and all.

It's so clear!

Because today is Good Friday, I thought it'd be nice to post something good. This is my very first step-by-step tutorial and I thought I'd share it with you on Good Friday.

How to use your favourite stamps to make transparency/ print screens/ whatchumaecallits for your projects or to match your paper. aka DIY transparency.

First you prepare the tools you need. Here I have a transparency cut to the size I want (5"x7"), a bottle of Ranger's Alcohol inks, Staz On bronze metallic ink pad, and Kaisercraft's La Chateau stamps on a couple of clean paper. READY?

Next, drip a few drops of alcohol inks on the "top" and "bottom" of the transparency.

After that, you can either soften it by spritzing with rubbing alcohol, daubing, or like me, I mix the ink drops and rubbing alcohol in a mister to spritz.

This is how it should look like after daubing or spritzing. If you want the color to be intense, wait for it to dry. If not, you can flip it facing down to do stamping on the other side.

Take the stamp of your choice, and stamp on the top part to create a pattern. You need not reink, but to stamp continuous so that some are bright some are faded. And repeat the same for the bottom.

And when you're done, tada! It should look like this.

Have fun stamping!