Redanne: Gypsy Soul Laser Cuts

Showing posts with label Gypsy Soul Laser Cuts. Show all posts

Thursday, 1 November 2018

Mini Album Makers November Challenge

Hello Friends, this is my first of two posts today.

A new month means a new challenge at Mini Album Makers! As always, it is Any Handmade Book Goes. Enter any form of handmade mini albums, scrapbooks, journals and book arts. Our focus is on completed works, so no layouts or journal spreads that are not part of a complete handmade book project. You can find full details of the Rules on our home page.

I wanted to use this beautiful Gypsy Soul Laser Cut, along with some Tim Holtz fabric, so I altered a plain journal with fabric to accommodate the laser cut.

I have a few photos to show you how it all came together.

1. I used a ready made journal, some Tim Holtz fabric and a Laser Cut from Gypsy Soul
2. Cut the fabric to size with a 1" border all around. Glue the fabric to the outside of the journal and leave to dry.
3. Fold in and glue down the corners.
4. Fold in and glue the sides to the cover.
5. (not shown) Glue one page over the fabric at the front and back to cover the fabric, this gives a nice neat finish to the front and back.

I usually always add a pocket or an envelope to the inside of all my journals. It is so easy to do by cutting and folding as shown in photograph one above.

For my envelope I cut the card to 8.1/4" tall x 7.1/4" wide and scored at 3.1/2" and 7". The bottom tab is 1.2" and the top fold over tab is 1.1/2".

You will need a Cropodile or hole punch and some eyelets to create the closure. Adjust the sizes to correspond with your size of journal. Once you have made one of these, it gets easier and it finishes your journal off beautifully and gives you a handy place to store small items and/or a pen or pencil.

I used the beautiful laser cut from Gypsy Soul Laser Cuts (our Sponsor this month). I embossed it with Black Embossing Powder. To finish it off I added a flower charm from my stash.

Our Sponsor this month at Mini Album Makers is Gypsy Soul Laser Cuts who will be offering a prize pack to one lucky winner.

Website - http://www.gslcuts.com/Store/
Blog - http://gslcuts.blogspot.co.uk/
Instructionals and Kits - http://gslcuts.blogspot.co.uk/p/blog-page.html

Thanks so much for your visit today, I hope you will join in this month at Mini Album Makers, we would love to see your creation(s).

Hugs, Anne xx

Monday, 14 May 2018

Flip Album tutorial for Mini Album Makers

Hello Friends!

Each month a member of the Mini Album Makers Design Team shares a tutorial and I would like to share with you my very first Flip Album, created after watching many tutorials on YouTube for inspiration. I do hope you will find time to have a look at my tutorial over at Mini Album Makers!

Here is a sneak peek for you:

Thank you so much for taking the time to visit here (and hopefully there too), I appreciate any comments you may wish to make.

All of us at Mini Album Makers hope that you will join in our challenge this month .

Regards, Anne xxx

Monday, 1 January 2018

Mini Album Makers January Challenge

Happy New Year Friends!

Since it is the first day of the month, not to mention a new year, it is time for a new challenge at Mini Album Makers. As always, it is an anything goes challenge as long as you make a complete album, book or journal.

I decided to make a mini album this month.

As another new year begins, my thoughts turned to Valentine's Day and I made a 4" square mini album from two sheets of 12" x 12" paper and some fabulous Gypsy Soul Laser Cuts... (all of the Gypsy Soul products I used are listed at the end of this post).

1. Score a 12" x 12" piece of heavyweight paper at 4" and 8" on two sides
2. Cut so that you have three single folded pages and one page with an extra flap (see above)
3. Punch a half circle in the flap element, and use strong tape or glue on three sides to form a pocket - this would form the inside back page of the album.
4. Glue all four of the page pieces back to back to form a 'booklet' style album

I chose this beautiful Gypsy Soul frame for my front cover and embossed it with Wendy Vecchi Embossing Powder in Red Geranium. I gave it two coats so that it is beautifully glossy.

I glued the frame to the front cover of the album. At this stage I was undecided about decoration for the cover.

Since I had Valentine's Day in mind I opted for two hearts and embossed them with the same red embossing powder. Whilst the EP was still hot I stamped into each heart with a script stamp to add some texture.

I dyed a piece of vintage seam binding with Festive Berries Distress Stain, attached it with a staple on the front and then glued the hearts on top as shown above.

To decorate the inside pages I chose a 12" x 12" piece of Maja Design double sided paper and cut this into 4" squares. I trimmed five pieces, used Festive Berries Distress Ink to finish the edges and attached them to the inside pages. For the remaining pages (including the pocketed back page) I cut a half circle in the top and added glue to three sides to create further pockets.

I decorated one side of each pair of pages with some more beautiful Gypsy Soul Laser Cuts, each of which I embossed with the same embossing powder as before.

I used the remaining square of patterned paper to cover the back of the mini album.

There is plenty of space on the pages to add photos and/or memorabilia. This is such a quick and easy design to create and I think it would make a wonderful substitute for a Valentine's card - it would be lovely filled up with personal messages and sentiments.....

So, I do hope you will join in at Mini Album Makers this month!

Our Sponsor this month is the wonderful Lindy's Stamp Gang who are offering a $25 Gift Voucher to one lucky winner.