Mini week: little booklet

Hi, 
It's Linda's turn today with this adorable mini book. 
Don't forget to let us know what you think.. 

I LOVE all things mini! I have no clue why! I am sure someone somewhere will know! Anyways ... my fondness for small makes me a veritable magnet for Tim Holtz's sheets of mini range stamps. This week I have made a mini book ... and

it really is mini ... the covers and pages are exactly the same size as an Artist Trading Card ...

Thought you might like a quick tip ... butterfly bodies are so easily made by placing a thin line of Glossy Accents on your butterfly. Thread your beads onto a pin ... then lay them in the Glossy Accents and hold the end bead with your finger ... finally pull the pin out slowly and leave to dry!

Here is a quick look at a few of the pages ... I used a mask for the frame stamp and then added the text ... a bit of Vintage Photo and a quick spray of Sunflower Sparkle Perfect Pearls.

Ingredients:-)

Tim Holtz Stamps: Steam Punk Art; Mini Classics; 

Mini Ornates; Shabby French; Going Somewhere; Stuff to Say; Odds and Ends

Claudine Hellmuth Sticky Canvas

Distress Inks: Fired Brick; Vintage Photo

Distress Stains: Wild Honey; Aged Mahoghany

Archival: Coffee; Jet Black; Crimson

Adage Tickets; Ornate Plates; Manilla Card

3/4" BIA Owires

Sunflower Sparkle Perfect Pearls

Mini week: Paris on canvases

Hi, 
Gio is starting this new week which will be all about mini... 
Tiny... small.. teeny... work from your favourite DT.... 
Hope you like it :)

I played with three different colours of PerfectPearl mist, scribbling with them , letting drop the ink and just spraying them on the mini canvases. (remember to dry with the heat gun between each layer, to avoid the muddy effect).

Then I covered the canvas with Viva Decor Cracle paste and a mask. Once dry, I highlighted the crackle effect with Perfect Pearls Copper using a little brush. At this stage I decided to add more colours: I sprayed the canvas with Cosmic Shimmer Mister: Teal Wash, Lava Red and Sunlight Mist. I then glued some pieces of old page book using Claudine Hellmuth Multimedium Matte. I coloured them with several colours of Distress Inks

I coloured five chipboard letters from Tando Creative: Alphas Sheet with some gesso and Aged Mahogany Distress Ink.

I stamped some images on a piece of white cardstock using CI-260 and PaperArtsy HP 1007 and I cut them out. I glued them to the minicanvases along with some images from Crafty Individuals images - Time and the Tando chipboard letters.

CI-260 - Lady in Paris

Hot Picks 1007 on EZ mount

Tando Creative: Alphas Sheet style Block Serif

Perfect Pearl Mists: Forever red, Forever violet, Sunflower sparkle

Cosmic Shimmer Misters: Teal Wash, Lava Red and Sunlight Mist

Claudine Hellmuth Multimedium Matte

Crafty Individuals images - Time 

Archival Ink Plum

Distress Inks Aged Mahogany, Broken China, Mustard Seed

A Simply Saturday gift

Hi :o)
Last (but not least) project for this gift week with Gay who made a beautiful box for you. A grungy (ish) base with a touch of simple elegance on zee top. Truly gorgeous.... 

I masked the glass before I painted the box with the Claret and Nougat paint after that I embossed the flourish design on the front of the box with gold embossing powder, sanded to take it back flat and then rubbed the paint on again to get a distressed look.

Stampbord made a good focal point in the centre of the glass. The Memory Box die cuts out like a dream. The die cut piece was white underneath and showed, spoiling the finish so I cut another flourish in black and adhered it to the glass and that tidied the inside. Inside I used card, scored with a scoring board to give sections to keep the jewellery or earrings separate.

Memory Box Die, Amira Flourish, 

Stampbord, Mixed Bag, I used an inch square piece.

CI stamps CI 173, CI 252

Andy skinner's Stamps: Gothic 

PaperArtsy Fresco paints: Claret, Nougat

Frantage, Aged Gold Embossing enamel

Gems to embellish

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