Inspirational Crafts

mandysea

I'm soooo excited to start my December Daily and its my 4th one!
Each year I learn more about what I love/like, dont like and what I'd like to try (whether it works or not - there's always Plan 'B' - and I've often reverted to that!)

Here it is (I've just randomly grabbed ribbon and tied on the rings... its there to show a 'kinda' finished look.... I'll wait until the album is complete before choosing the ribbons properly)

I had in my mind very early in the year to use these Prima Resist Covers, so bought them and put them aside till now.
The covers are 7 1/2 x 9 1/2ins so pretty much the insides would be about 7x9ins. At first I thought this might be too big! But thinking about my previous albums - there are really important days where I've had to do a few pages to cover one day - so maybe this time, I'll do say a 'tag' page for a small event day - and a large page that fits to the covers for the big event days for instance. See - we keep learning

There's so much scope with these covers. I did a Prima Canvas album year before last - and swore I'd never do another (just a tad bit of extra work) - but its the one I LOVE the most out of all of them... so here I am again - having another shot at a slightly different one! (Let's see if I'm sorry or not by its end :lol:

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I've just got a couple of steps below how the cover developed

Step One
As its a 'resist' cover, that means you can spray your colour onto the surface and the image or scripts underneath will remain visable. I cut out a couple of stars - one big and one smaller and placed on the cover to act as a mask and sprayed.

Step Two
Before the stars came off - I sprayed with a orange red to deepen the colour.
(Dont forget to spray inside the covers too so it looks finished when opening the book)

The paper (mask) stars were not thrown away - I used Dimensional Magic on them as well as the little glittery centres that go on the stars. If you love products like MME Lost and Found Christmas that has lots of glitter (it does tend to rub off and get everywhere) then Dimensional Magic will seal it and yet it still looks fabby and glittery!

mandysea

Have you ever looked at how fabulous this Graphic 45 Christmas Emporium Happy Holidays paper could be if it were turned into 4 sets of cards? Thats good budgeting

Just cut out each picture including the surrounding background...
And mount them on some folded pattern paper or cardstock.

I've added a little extra onto each card

On both the next two cards I've used as the card base - Basic Grey Wassail 'Olive Branch (Basic Grey background paper - no matter how old...its like that classic black dress!) Sentiments - Teresa Collins Christmas Cottage Sticker Sheet, String and Red ribbon Teresa Collins Christmas Cottage Trim. The Sparkle - Teresa Collins Christmas Cottage Rhinestones -see the red sparkly belt around Santa's middle?

And can your see the rhinestones around the back part of the ladies collar and on the hung Christmas sign?

The last two photos have a Graphic 45 Christmas Emporium Merry and Bright paper as a base to the card. The sentiments are Teresa Collins Christmas Cottage Chipboard Elements and Sparkle - Teresa Collins Christmas Cottage Rhinestones See the little silver trims to two of the little boy's pj's and Santa has a rhinestone on his scarf as with the candle - to represent a 'flame'.

And the rhinestones are found on the Christmas tree

Loving that Teresa Collins Christmas Cottage collection too!