Going on a spring break? Don't forget your travel cases ^.^

Today I have for you a project made with Train Case die, one more gorgeous Eileen Hull's die from her new Sizzix collection Vintage Travel.

 

 

 very inspiring die and it was very fun to work with, interested in how to make this yourself? read below ^.^

first of all I took dimensions of the box and cut some Core'dinations cardstock, embossed it with Eileen's Sunburst embossing folder, distressed it and adhered to the box

after that I covered all the box with white paint (Deco Art Titanium white), but let some texture and black color below it to show. When the paint was dry I added some Broken China distress ink here and there

for more texture I applied distress crackle paint

and then sepia archival ink to highlight the raised areas

some of the case details I wanted to look like faux leather, so the easiest way for me was just to cut some Tim Holtz grunge paper and color it with Vintage photo distress ink

the hinges were inspiration from Shelly Hickox  (which creative spirit I secretly admire (Hello Shelly ;) )technique Faux Tarnished Silver , with the only difference that I added and melted the UTEE and the silver embossing powder simultaneously

The technique above was also the one I used to create Anna-Karin's baby shover gift - Tiny Adventurer's Log

For more amazing 3-D inspiration stop by Eileen Hull

 

 

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Vintage travel on a spring break with Eileen Hull and Art with Heart

Hello everyone ^.^
we are having a spring break at Art with Heart this month. And what is spring break without a trailer :)
One more amazing Eileen Hull Sizzix die from an upcoming Vintage Travel collection

a little detail I couldn't resist to add is the roof window that opens up to allow me to store things inside (my favorite thing to do with all the 3D dies )

few tips:

I started with coloring a sticky back canvas with the Iced Spruce distress ink (I wanted to have the clear canvas texture that's why I didn't prime it with gesso or anything like that at all ). 

For the top part I colored the self adhesive aluminium foil with light colors of distress paints and stamped some floral images    

the top window was cut after I put the trailer together, it was a bit tricky but with little patience I had my opening ready to go ^.^ To cover it I embossed some clear plastic with Eileen Hull's Sunburst embossing folder and secured it with staples.

Thank you for stopping by ^.^

Share with us you spring break creations at Art with Heart April challenge. One lucky participant will win a Vintage Travel die. We can't wait to see what you'll create

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Tiny adventurer's log and surprise Anna-Karin's baby shower

Hello everyone. Today we have a surprise blog hop for you and for our very special Inspiration Team member Anna-Karin Evaldson ^.^

Last year there were a lot of changes in Anna-Karin's life, including a move from one continent to another and just a few months later, a new baby! Leo arrived weeks ahead of schedule (and just 20 minutes after reaching the hospital!) but thankfully he and Anna-Karin are both doing well. 

We want to show Anna-Karin how special she is to us, so we are giving her a virtual baby shower today to celebrate Leo's birth! Even though we can't be with her, we send our love and a special crafty surprise.
We invite you to visit each team member/shower guest's blog to see what they created for this new little guy. 

If you have a message for Anna-Karin, please visit Eileen's blog to leave your well wishes in the comments- then she can read them all at once. Thanks for being part of our celebration! 

And now drum roll please...^.^ my special crafty surprise 

 I call it Tiny Adventurer's Log and it is an exploding box which works as a journal and mini album. The project was made with Vintage Kitchen Recipe box die, it holds few tags and have some room in it's pockets for more memorabilia. I hope Anna-Karin will enjoy it and fill it with precious little memories and adventures of Leo ^.^

Thank you for stopping by and don't forget to visit my teammates for more wonderful surprise project and Eileen's blog to leave your well wishes

Anne Redfern
Dianna Hetherington
Donna Budzynski
Lisa Hoel
Nicole Wright
Pam Bray
Shelly Hickox
Tracy Evans

mini album for the Memories Trend (part 1)

Hello everyone. 

I was in the mood for some recycling these days so I searched through my paper stash and guess what I found...mini paper bags and few craft envelopes..."Mini album!" I though...if only I knew... it took me quite some days (a loooot) to finish, tons of photos of the project and for the tutorial, my crafting space became a total mess, but after all it was totally worth it. 

The album measures 20x13cm , I used total of 7 paper bags and 2 craft envelopes, I call it mini album (not sure if it qualifies though), but the project itself (the amount of a work done, photos and tutorial) is rather huge, that's why I'll break my post in to 2 parts. Today I will show you how I did the binding

and some photos of the project and tomorrow I'll share with you more details on some of the particular pages binding and the cover. 

unfortunately I didn't have enough time to choose some photographs for the album, so I left a white space instead

that were few of the pages and now lets move on with how to ^.^

for starters we need to score and fold the paper bags, try not to score too hard, usually this paper tears quite easily (as for dimensions of a flap start from 2cm at least )

 

after that you need to adhere the bag sides

 to make pages sturdier I have inserted a thick card stock inside of each bag and adhered it to the back

  you might have noticed that the first page was a bit smaller and also had an extra top pocket for a photo mat, to achieve that I made a cut on one of the smaller bag sides instead of  gluing it.

when adding a thicker card stock I glued it partially.

before binding the pages together I added the main layer of the patterned paper. 
when binding you only add adhesive to the outer sides of the flap you created .

 the final result

p.s. thank you for stopping by, stop by tomorrow for part 2 ^.^

 

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