March Craft Class - project 1

Hi Everyone,
I came down with something on Friday and had to cancel my craft class.  I'm on the mend but not 100% yet! :-(

Below is one of the projects for this month's craft class.  This technique is the crinkle ink technique and I made it into the mini album.  Of course my topic was belly dancing ;-)

You will be learning more ink techniques on tags and glossy paper and if I get my act together I will have them posted before class. 

Below are photos of the crinkle ink technique; sorry I forgot to turn on my flash so they are a little dark.

Enjoy your week...

Mesa Arts Center Mini Albums Class

This Tuesday will be the mini albums class at the Mesa Arts Center. 

You will be creating 3 albums that are not so mini :-)  We will be using 45 records to create a book style album, an album record to be displayed on the wall or in a plate stand and the CD holder is a great gift to give to someone special.  We will be creating a cover to hold a CD that contains music or family photos. 

No need to bring photos if you don't have a them in mind for your albums; you can add photos later.

Below are photos of 2 of the projects we will be making in class.

I had a photo shoot and my photographer gave me a CD of all the photos from the day.  I created this CD cover to house the CD and placed photos from some of the pictures from the day to decorate the holder.

The album is of my two puppies Nitro and Blue.  Behind each photo is journaling of the photo.

Hopefully I will have photos of the 45 record album up before class.

Enjoy your week and hope to see you in class...

Mini Album March Workshop

Tomorrow's class we will be making albums to show case those special moments in life. 

We will be creating 4 albums using every day items.  The first one is a pair of dominoes as the covers of the mini album.  The theme I used for this cute little album was dance.  I used alcohol inks for the background on the covers and applied cut outs of vintage dancers.  Inside is accordion fold designer paper that I put dance quotes both front and back with more vintage dancers and stamped images throughout. 

The next mini album I used playing cards.  For the outside covers I used dies cuts or punches to create a design.  I created 3 different inside pages for these albums.  I stabled pages together and used clear tape to bind the cover to the pages.  I punched holes and used ribbon to bind the pages and covers together and the last design was accordion fold album.

The square around album was fun to create it's all in the folding.  I used 8" square designer paper to create these albums.  Each section has a pocket to put your tags with photos or whatever you like. 

The last album is using an old album!  Behind each photo is a pull out page to journal on.  My album is of my two puppies Nitro and Blue.  Loved creating this one and it was pretty quick ones I decided on the photos
:-)

Below are photos of all the projects.

In two weeks I will be teaching a workshop using buttons.  We will be making jewelry, magnets and more.  I'll post photos once I get everything made.

Mini Albums

I'm having so much fun making these mini albums for our class on Saturday March 13th.  So far I have finished making 2 of the 4 we will be creating.

Name badge mini album

Treat bag mini album






Each mini album has its own theme and they are great little scrapbooks.  The first one I used plastic name badge holders to create a little book of my class’s performance at the County Fair in 2009.  Photos, bits and pieces, lots of fiber and quotes make up this little treasure.

inside pages

back side of inside pages

inside view of 2 pages

back of album





The 2nd mini album I used small treat bags and added a cover out of designer paper.  I call it "My Garden" and went around our yard and snapped photos of trees, bushes, garden art and plants I have in my garden.  Of course the book is full of embellishments and garden quotes and poems.  I love using paper bags no matter what size; there are so many places to create pockets to slide photos in plus the main pockets for journaling.

Inside treat bag mini album

photo behind grow flap

pocket created from bottom flap of bag

one of 3 pull out tabs




For class we will be making a CD holder, a special album for music or a photo CD to remember an event in your life and an envelope album to place lots of photos for those special moments we have.

If we have time I'd like to create a password journal from a journal refill and an old hard back boo; more on this when I find all the bits to make it.  This journal is a place to house all those passwords we have for various websites, user groups, etc.

Enjoy your week and see some of you on Saturday for class...