I have another traveler’s notebook layout for you today. I’m guesting at Technique Tuesday for the next few months; I’m focusing on the newly released Sweet as Candy Stamp set & dies and the Candy Jar crafting dies.
To make the spread:
- I used a 8.25 inch by 4.25 inch insert (standard size) and cut 2 panels (8 inch by 4 inch) out of cardstock with a fancy script on it. I painted a faint amount of white acrylic paint over the areas that were going to focus my photos. The photos always drive my design; I had chosen those first and die cut small polaroid-type frames which I adhered on top of each photo.
- I stamped and die cut each of the images from the Sweet as Candy Stamp set & dies onto to Neenah Solar White Class Crest 110 lb cardstock, which I then copic colored and put highlights on with a white gel pen. I die cut the jar out of vellum and had extra hearts that I had cut out with the Candy Jar crafting dies. I adhered everything to the page, including cardstock alphas and glitter stars that I had in my stash.
- I thought the Candy Jar crafting dies would be perfect for making a shaker clip that would further highlight the spread. To make the shaker clip, I had to adjust some of the die cuts as shown in the photos:
I die cut the entire jar out of blue cardstock, white cardstock, blue vellum, acetate and foam; I cut the lower part of the foam piece off as shown in the photos so that the jar would fit with the lid. I also had to make impressions with the die cuts so that I could cut out the outline of the entire jar in white cardstock and acetate. For the bottom part of the jar, I adhered the blue cut cardstock to the acetate piece that spanned the entire bottom of the jar, which was then adhered to a foam piece- this creates a capsule for the shaker that contains all the shaker pieces. The foam lid was adhered to a white cardstock piece that spanned the entire candy jar (again I ran a piece of cardstock with an embossing pad so that the outline of the candy jar could be impressed on the paper that I could fussy cut by hand. I adhered the inner vellum piece to the same white cardstock piece. Now was it was time to fill the shaker, so I die cut lots of hearts out of heavy cardstock that I had on hand and then applied some glitter glue on top for shimmer. Once dry, I put the shaker pieces in and adhered the jar shut. To make it into a clip, I impressed and fussy cut 4 more pieces of the entire jar onto the Neenah 110 lb cardstock and fussy cut a notch for the paper clip into 3 pieces. I glued the 3 pieces with the notch onto the back of the shaker first, then hot glued the clip in and then sealed the entire shaker clip with the final un-notched piece. This is definitely easier to show in a video, than describe in a blog post, and if there is a lot of interest, I can make a video.
Thank you for stopping by- I hope that you will give the traveler’s notebook method of memory keeping a try!
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