Artistic Family Album
Artistic Family Album
Other Products: Canson water paper; Distress inks: seedless preserve; vintage photo. Prima resin oval frame, prima metal heart, steam punk button corners; glass seed beads; Art Anthology paints and sprays; Craft Medley wooden gears. Gold Alchemy Wax; gel medium; heat tool.
For more tips on creating with the Lush Lilac collection, watch the tutorial at https://youtu.be/KDbdzC0MnAI.
For more tips on creating with the journals, watch the tutorial at https://youtu.be/fw4lcnn_9zU.
Instructions: Cut paper to fit front and back of album which is approx. 8.75 x 8". I wanted to be sure to leave a white border all the way around. Cut 4 panels from collection measuring 5 x 7"; ink and distress all the edges, some with seedless preserves others with vintage photo. On the top 5 x 7" panel I decided to create a mixed media cover using some metals from my stash.
Gesso all your embellishments first then attach the heart to the resin frame. Place a steam punk heart button in the center of the heart and add some seed beads, gesso these. Gesso some wooden gears. Heat set to dry. Color with art anthology sprays and mists.
Gesso the center area of a 5 x 7" front panel, attach the mixed media items we prepared, tuck in some added gears as shown. I adhered all the heavy embellishments to the cover with gel medium
Using some seed beads, I added these to other areas on the cover just by using art institute dries clear and coloring them with alchemy wax. I used a chipboard title from creative embellishments and colored it with alchemy wax too. Attach all the papers to the cover as shown. I did add some alchemy wax to the base of the embellishments to add some highlight.