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Artbooking Made Easy - Love Mini Albums
Hi, I’m Kristine Widtfeldt, thank you for joining me today for Artbooking Made Easy.
Today we are going to use the Love mini album keys
on page 48 and 49
in your Artbooking booklet.
We’re going to show you two amazing mini books,
one incredible technique that’s going to give you endless options
for creative fun that you’re going to fall in love with for Valentine’s Day.
So, if you look at some of the keys that we’ve got on here,
we’ve got lots of hearts and doilies,
lots of different things that can give you inspiration pieces.
And while I don’t intend to give you step by step instruction to recreate these
they’re so easy to do because the two pieces that I’ll be showing you
are both created as they were designed
for the size at 8x3 and,
let’s see what is it 3 ½? Yep, 8x3 1/2.
So let’s first look at this piece.
And I’m going to give you a quick walk through.
And then I’m going to show you a few different elements in it.
So haven’t really deviated from any of the sizes
just cutting those pieces at 8 inches
and using a very Valentine’s color scheme
you can see that I’ve really stayed true to a lot of my silver glitter
and lots of different pinks and hollyhocks and blush.
Cute Broadbent family! Love ya Jill!
All those cute Broadbent kids.
Here let’s take a quick pause
to see that if I were to cut my flowers here,
sized at 8 inches,
this is the size that they would be produced at,
but you can see that I’ve done some that are smaller,
a lot smaller, and some that are larger.
You can create that just with a little bit of creativity
by setting your dial to real dial size.
There’s nothing wrong with this sized flower at all, looks great.
But if I want to create a cluster, like what I’ve created here,
just cut two or three, or four or five flowers, cluster them together,
and make sure you use real dial size.
This is actually bound with some bakers twine
which makes a great book binding that’s also not very bulky
and it comes in so many different colors
that it’s just a really great way to tie that book together.
Look at how we’ve introduced
just a little pop of gold rush in here
serita paper pack, kind of fun
and different for a, Valentine’s Day look.
And that’s my Valentine’s version.
Now I want to show you, kind of a really trendy version.
I think you’re going to love this.
And I’m going to show you one of my favorite techniques in it.
So let’s look at it really closely here.
Look at this beautiful ombre look on the cover.
That’s what I’m going to show you a little bit of.
It’s done in a very spare trendy style
that emphasizes that white.
Look at these fun paint splotches.
They might look a little hard to do.
They might actually even actually look like stamped images
because they’ve got such a wacky shape.
Well they’re not.
There you go, there’s that ombre technique a couple of times.
Let me also point out this fun heart shaped page.
You can do either just one cut when you cut on the Cricut
on these 48 and 49 you’re going to see this cut.
It is not one heart cut in half.
The shape that you’ll cut is this half a heart
so I’ve simply cut two of them and arranged them back to back.
You can do one or two, whatever, whatever you’re project suits, but I like two.
Even this overlay piece uses that ombre technique
starting from dark to light.
You can see that it works in any color, works on virtually any icon.
It’s really easy to do.
Here I’ve done it on the base page, and even on the little banner is done ombre style
so it’s kind of a unifying theme to have that ombre look.
And here’s some more of my fun paint splatters done in honey.
In fact Honey is the color that I’m going to be showing you how to do this technique in.
how to do this technique in.
So I’ve got my eight inch piece by three and half
and so this is, would be one of the pieces that I would cut to make my book.
I’m going to turn it sideways just because that’s easier for me to work with.
Now I’ve taken just a treat cup,
you can use anything that you want to hold,
that will allow you to mix your magic in.
Okay so in here I’ve got about ten drops of re-inker
and then a couple tablespoons of water.
You definitely want to dilute your re-inker
but not too much otherwise you’re going to make your paper very wrinkly
as you, as you water it down.
Now I’m going to put my sponge dauber into that water and re-inker mix.
Making sure that it’s really mixed well together.
And I’m going to feel free to let it get good and wet.
I’m going to start at the top of my paper,
and yeah look how watery it is,
and I’m just going to go down.
And then
as it goes down it’s going to get lighter.
And I’m just going to repeat this.
See how easy that is?
Even I cannot screw this up. No siree bob.
Go heavier at the top and go lighter.
Some of your paper will peel off.
It will pill right and roll off
but you can just continue to pull it down,
pull it down, and pull it down.
And it will get lighter and lighter as you go down.
You can you can add as many coats,
that’s why the dilution doesn’t really matter of the re-inker to the water.
What matters is the number of coats that you put on it.
So if you want a more intense vibrant look,
just keep going over it
and then you can see how it’s going to get lighter, whoop,
you can see how it’s going to get lighter as it goes down.
This is going to be pretty wet.
This is going to be really wet because it’s absorbed a lot of water
so when I’m making a project like this I’ll want to set it aside.
It is also going to probably wrinkle and buckle a bit.
You can see some of that pilling, just going to brush that right off, allow it to dry.
So my surface is fairly dry but I can tell it’s absorbed a lot
in the fibers of the paper.
And then, I can choose to either heat set that
to speed the drying,
and when I heat set it it’ll also help flatten out any wrinkles
that I naturally get in the paper.
Or if I just want to allow it to air dry those wrinkles can dry that way,
but it’s really easy to simply cover
a wrinkled area with a photo, with an embellishment,
or allow it to be wrinkled as part of the natural texture.
Now, I also want to show you how to create that fun paint splat.
So again, and I said that this was something I couldn’t do wrong
but, you might do it wrong, I did it wrong at first.
And here’s the trick.
Get your sponge dropper, sopping wet
then pounce on the paper where you want to do it
and pull it back and then immediately,
don’t rub, just begin helping
that diluted mixture absorb evenly
so that you don’t get any kind of a circle
or a dauber shape as it dries.
Look how fun that is!
Look at that adorable paint splat
and all it takes is just a little bit of massaging to get that water in.
If you go too lightly
you’re going to end up with a very,
actually that one’s not too shabby Kristine.
But if you go too lightly you’ll end up getting
just a perfect circle shape of your dauber.
Make sure your dauber is saturated with the mixture,
pounce good and hard and you’re going to get a great paint splatter.
And the both of those are wonderful,
easy re-inker based techniques
that you can use to dress up any mini album
whether you’re using our Artbooking Love themed mini albums
or something entirely different.
I hope you’ve enjoyed learning a little bit more about these mini books
as well as this awesome ink technique.
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