Plant your Dreams

It has been such an honour for me to be included on the FabScraps Design Team for 2018/2019 and I have been enjoying creating for the team for the very first time.  Thank you to FabScraps for having confidence in me and I look forward to a fun, creative year with the company.

Below is my first project for the team ... a mini album using the C105 Memory Lane collection.

For this project you will need:

➤FabScraps Memory Lane Collection paper range C105:  005 & 006

➤FabScraps DC105 001 Die Cut Album

➤FabScraps DC105 007 Die Cut Word

➤FabScraps Stencil DS090

➤FabScraps ST105 002 Stickers

➤Tim Holtz Distress Ink (Vintage Photo)

➤Prima Color Bloom spray (Sunshine, Peony)

➤Nuvo Mousse (Fresh Copper)

➤Tsukineko Delicata ink (Celestial Copper)

➤Ranger Liquid Pearls (Copper Pearl)

➤Treasure Copper Wax Gilt (Copper)

➤Copper Embossing Powder and Embossing Ink Pad

➤Texture paste

➤Water colour paints

➤Stamp:  Chicken wire

➤Flowers, leaves, pearls, ribbon, lace, twine, gauze, resin flower pot

Instructions:

➤Using the Die Cut Album, trace around the edges of the watering can onto the 005 and 006 papers and cut out until you have enough to cover the chipboard pages as desired.  Only cover the back of the first and last pages. Glue these down.  Note:  Remember to make the holes in the handle as you glue each piece of paper.

➤Raise the sticker “I smile when a new day begins” onto some paper and cut a border around the edge.  Raise the sticker and secure it in the centre of the back of your cover page.

➤On one page (that you haven’t covered with paper), using texture paste and your stencil, add some bird feet onto the top left of the page.  Once everything is dry, add some of the Sunshine spray over the bird feet and allow the ink to run down the page.  Using watercolour paints, paint some branches and leaves and then, when dry, add some leaves as well as a bird and some small flowers cut from your paper.

➤On another uncovered page, stencil leaves in copper Nuvo Mousse and leave to dry.  Add some of the two inks to your page, allowing the inks to run down the page and through the leaves.  Leave to dry.  Cut two circles in different sizes and raise these in the centre of the page, adding some lace around the edge of the bigger circle.  Add the sticker “you are my home” onto the smaller circle.

➤On the last uncovered page, using the stencil and texture paste, stencil the window into the centre of the page.  When dry, lightly paint some brown watercolour paint around the window panes.  Spray the gauze with some of the ink sprays and leave to dry.  Cut paper to cover the top of the window as well as curtains for either side of the window.  Cut the gauze to fit behind the curtains and secure all of these to the page.  Cut flowers as a “window box”.

➤Distress around the edges of the front and back of each page with the Vintage Photo Distress Ink.

➤Using your stamp and copper ink, add some stamping to each page.

➤Press the FabScraps DC105 007 Die Cut title into the Embossing Ink Pad.  Dust the words with copper embossing powder and heat through until all the powder has melted.

➤Arrange all embellishments as per the picture to complete the album.

➤Thread some ribbon through the holes in the handle and tie loosely so that it is still easy to turn the pages.

➤Lightly splash some green watercolour paint onto your pages and allow to dry.

➤Add some liquid pearls to the album as you desire and leave to dry.

Your album is now complete!