I stamped one each of the birds in the set together with 3 flowery branches on smooth white stamping card and coloured everything with watercolour brush pens before cutting out all the elements.

I assembled my panel as you see above, finishing with text from one of the sets by Lynne Moncrieff.

 Hi Everyone 

Today I'm following on from last week's make (that can be seen here) having more fun creating with  Tim Holtz products including the newly released Stampers Anonymous Stamp Set 'Inquisitive' and the gorgeous new colour addition to the Distress family 'Prize Ribbon'. 

This time instead of a card I have created a postcard that could be given as you would a card or alternately displayed in any way you choose around your home/office/studio.

 To add some detail to the sides of the background panel I stamped around the gents with the 'target' stamp and the small dots from the same stamp set, finishing with a few light splatters of black paint. 

To finish, the panel was matt n layered onto white and black cardstock before being mounted onto a That's Crafty! white/ greyboard panel, cut to size to give it more rigidity.  

Black Card  
That's Crafty! Multi Surface Craft Adhesive 
Black Acrylic Paint 
Tim Holtz Distress Ink: Prize Ribbon, Tattered Rose 
Tim Holtz Distress Oxides: Squeezed Lemonade 
Archival Ink: Jet Black 
Clear Super Fine (SF) Embossing Powder 
Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous Stampsets: 'Inquisitive' (CMS432)
Tim Holtz Layering Stencils:  'Grid Dot' (THS083)
Paper Trimmer
Scissors 
Stamping Platform 
Paint Brush (for splatters) 

 

I hope you have you have enjoyed your time with me today- thanks so much for stopping by. 

Your visits and any comments you wish to leave are always appreciated. 

Wishing you a fun creative week ahead 

Take Care 

Amanda 

x 

Last week I shared how to make the large journal with Liz Wheeler's journal templates and so this week I am sharing a how to for the tall thin journal that can be made with the same template - Set 2. All it requires is a little movement of the template. I started by taking A3 300gsm white card stock and placed the cover template in one corner and then drew around it - this time to create the thin album I scored down all of the longitudinal slots and then cut our my paper before folding along all four lines. Simply folding in the two outer score lines allows you to reinforce the edge of your book and also create pockets for the inside of the journal covers. 

To decorate my cover  I chose to add Distress Oxide Dusty Concord ink to all of the edges - in retrospect given this ink is water reactive you might me better off using an Archival ink particularly if your album will get a lot of handling. I then added paper to the inside of my journal before gluing down the two side flaps being careful only to add glue to the top and bottom edge of the flaps so that I had a functional pocket. You could just glue these down to reinforce the edge and then cover with paper if you do not want your journal to have pockets - this is the real beauty of these templates - you can customise to your hearts content.

The pocket was then covered with a strip of paper from Fuschia Mood 12 x 12 paper pack and the edge re-inforced with one of the lace border Craftyboard pieces and a die cut chipboard from Beauty Restless. I then created tags using more templates - this time from Liz's original collection Set 1.

To decorate the front of the journal I cut papers from purple hues and Plum in Chocolate paper collections to fit on the cover panels before three black elastic bands round the spine area. On the front of the cover I added some strips of paper and flowers fussy cut from the papers. I stamped my words from The Plan It stamp set on to white card stock and adhered to a chipboard die cut frame before adhering that in place too.

I also added some more of the chipboard die cuts on top of the elastics to keep them evenly placed along the spine. Finally for my closure I have simply tied some ribbon round the elastics and left the ends long enough to pass around the journal when it is full. 

To create the pages for this album I took the pages template and A3 card stock - I placed the template in the bottom left corner of the card and then moved it to the left so that the first longitudinal score slot was lined with the edge of the paper. I drew along the top of the template marking the central notch until I reached the notch above the furthest score line when I marked the top of the notch when I moved the template again to the left until the edge joined up with the tip of the notch and then drew a line. I made sure I had scored the center of the drawn pages and then cut out the paper. I created 3 booklets in total for this journal filling them with some card stock and printer paper pages. To create my signatures I stacked the pages together and then used the page template to mark 3 evenly spaced holes along the fold line before sewing the layers together with twine. I took my thread from outside through the centre hole then back though the upper hole before taking it down the outside of the booklet and through the bottom hole before passing the needle back through the central hole and tying off the ends.

For the outside of my booklets I used card stock which I decorated with papers, stamped words and die cut chipboard and on the inside of the first book I added a tag with stamped words from set. 

Finally I slipped my booklets through the elastic bands around the spine. The beauty of this type of spine is that it is really simple to create as it requires no stitching or threading of cord but at the same time means that the inside booklets can be taken out when full and replaced easily with new ones.

 Hello

That's Crafty! Clear Stamp Set Nature's Gatherings Set 2
That's Crafty! Clear Stamp Set Lynne's Scribbled Words Set 1
That's Crafty! Surfaces MDF Panel 6" Pack of 3
That's Crafty! Surfaces CraftyBoard Circles
That's Crafty! Pearl Inks Tree Bark, Copper, Black
That's Crafty! Mutli-Surface Paint White, Black, Grey
That's Crafty! Stencil A4 Circles TC40002
That's Crafty! Medium Walnut Ink Crystals (substitute with Walnut Ink Powder)
That's Crafty! Mutli-Purpose Craft Adhesive
Craft o' Clock Sheet of Extras Butterflies
Archival Ink Pad Watering Can
Archival Ink Pad Jet Black
Watercolour Paper
Extras: thread, muslin scrap

Onto watercolour paper Pearl Inks in Tree Bark and Black were applied, misting generously before applying small amount of Copper, allowing to dry before adhering to MDF panel and abrading edges.

A time of beginnings was repeatedly stamped as a band across the panel. 

 Onto the Craftyboard circle, applying Black and Grey paint and a touch of walnut ink.  

Two butterflies from the Craft o'clock sheet.

With scrap of muslin and paper, misting with walnut ink and layering with a small circle from scrap painted paper (utilizing the smallest circle on the A4 circle stencil to stencil and cut out). Topping this with the layered butterflies, trapping ends of threads beneath the butterflies.

Onto scrap piece of paper stamping the word emerge from Nature's Gatherings set.

Using the grungy dots on the small Scribbled Words circle stamp, stamping the marks onto the background panel.

Thank you for your visit.

Lynne