Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Lesson 5: First half of mini album



Crackle paint is so fun and guess what? EASY!! It's so stinkin easy. You literally just paint it directly onto the chipboard shapes and it crackles in that one easy step.
The paint even has a built in brush. Are you kidding me? so cool.
My tip for using crackle paint is to know that the thicker the paint the more spaced out the crackles and the thinner of a layer you paint on the finer the crackles. I like to have thick and thin which almost happens naturally because the paint doesn't go on very smooth so keep that in mind. For this class we will be using 2 of the flowers so feel free to paint them all. Have fun!!
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Let's get started on the this fun mini album! Keep in mind that I hadn't added my journaling when I took these pictures! I have since then added my journaling.
All the dyed tags are for journaling.
Also think of each couple pages as their own little chapter to your mini album. You have your TICKETS with the journaling prompts and that starts the chapter then the next tag is for writing your thoughts and the next page is for a photo.

So it goes:
Ticket
Tag
Photo

Page 1 & 2

Cover one side with a patterned paper
Use a diecut frame, tag, lace & painted chipboard flower with brad. I added adhesive to spots of the lace that you wouldn't notice.

Page 3 & 4
Photo on blue paper with white circles. (back of the yellow circle paper) & vintage lace

Page 5 & 6
Patterned paper
Tag pocket. Ticket with ribbon tied to mini paper clip.
Page 7 & 8
Cut out a row of flowers from Cosmo Cricket paper then sew along the bottom of flowers to the blue paper with white circles. (back of the yellow circle paper)
Felt and photo
Page 9 & 10
(Patterned paper, lace, flower with brad, ribbon, felt, 3" wide tag)
Find a cute flower with brad
Add journaling tag with ribbon
Attach brad and flower to patterned paper & to a strip of paper and lace.
Then attach it all to felt only do the corners so that you can hide the ticket behind the paper has a hidden pocket. I use Glue Arts tape runner and it sticks to felt but you can also add embroidery stitches to corners just do this before you add your photo on the other side.
Page 11 & 12
Journaling tag
Butterfly



Page 13 & 14
Journaling tag (I have added after I took these photos.)
Ribbon to Tag
Slip tickets that you'll be writing about in pocket.


Can't wait to see your albums.
Remember add your own style & touches... :)

PS Blogger is being weird and the video isn't working so I will try again tomorrow, k?
xoxo to my cute class. :)

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House of 3 frame & printing photos

An extra lesson for those who asked: How to use the frame and time to pick out photos and print them out.
Use any photos that help illustrate your journaling for the House of 3 tickets.

Instructions for CS3
This is the photo editing program I use. What program do you use? Here are some more tutorials for other programs. Click the links below. But please keep in mind that I do not have these problems so I was unable to try them out and see how they work. Please share your experience with any of these programs for the other students so we can all learn how to use the frames. :)
1. Open your photos and crop to the size you prefer. I did 2 1/4" width x 3"
2. Open the frame and Image then "Image Resize" in the drop down menu. Change the inches to match the inches you cropped, making sure the resolution is the same as the resolution you cropped at. I keep mine at 300

3. Drag the frame onto the photo and if you still need to use the move tool to fit the frame to the photo.
4. Flatten image
5. Drag all your cropped photos onto either an 8"x10" new document to print at a local printing shop.
Or drag them to an 8"x11" document and print at home. (My photo paper is 8"x 11" but use whatever size photo paper you have.)

6. Print out your photos and we'll be ready to start on our awesome album.

I have a video walking you through the whole album and them we can get started!! :) Just want to make sure everyone is ready and having fun!