Tuesday, June 20, 2017

Eileen Hull & Stampotique Collaboration…

Hello! This month Eileen Hull's team is collaborating with Stampotique and both teams have been creating some pretty spectacular projects! I encourage you to check out the June posts on Eileen's blog and the Stampotique blog too! For my project, I used Eileen's Mini Album for the structure and all sorts of diecuts and of course fabulously whimsical Kira Nichols stamps from Stampotique to create a tunnel book.

Front, off on a road trip!

Back cover - road stripes are made with washi tape

The adventure begins!




Hmm, is this the end?

Nope!
I used Liquid Glass to adhere the glass glitter "crystals" to the cave walls.

Whew, lots of photos aren't there? ;-) Continue on for a look at how I created this.

Step 1 – I played around with tracing paper to determine the placement of elements and the cut openings in the pages.


Step 2 – I cut three layers of foam core for the cave base and carved out the openings with a craft knife. (Use a sharp blade!)


Step 3 – I stamped all the characters onto a heavy mixed media substrate and painted them with DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylics. Then I fussy cut them out. I also stamped and painted the cover, cut from Sizzix Matboard.


Step 4 – I added DecoArt Media Gesso and Texture Sand Paste to the layers of the cave parts before painting them. I left the top layer loose because I knew I was going to have some of the stamped images sandwiched between them.


Step 5 – I assembled the top pages with their die cuts and stamping. It was handy to have my tracing paper sketches to keep track of which page was which.


Step 6 – Last, I made the spine to hold the top pages and mount to the cave base. (I used a similar binding for this album project.) I cut six strips of cardstock 1 x 4.75 inches. (Turned out that I really only needed five of them.) I folded each in half lengthwise and then glued them together to form a fan shape (bottom photo). One outside flap got glued to the side of the foam core base and I adhered the pages to each of the other flaps.


Well, that was an epic post! You get a medal if you made it through the whole thing lol. Check out the other projects we've made this month and enjoy your week!

I'm also going to enter this into the Stampotique challenge for June. Lots to see there!

Stampotique stamps used for this project:
Stitched Houses, Cocoa Bird, Happy Camper Text, Bushes, Stack of Birds, Little Hoo-Hoo, Monster w/ Sign, Kitty Squad, Waving Spotted Monster

Many of the supplies I used for this project can be found at Sizzix or Simon Says Stamp. Follow the links below and a shopping you may go! Some links are affiliate links which do not affect the price you pay but allow me to earn a small percentage of the sale. Thanks!


 

9 comments:

  1. What a wonderful and SO creative book design! SO much fun turning the pages - what a lot of work you did to put this together Lisa! Love it! Julia xx

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  2. You are a rock star, Lisa! (But then I always knew that anyway.) I absolutely ADORE your tunnel book. Amazing work!

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  3. Your little tunnel book is fabulous Lisa!! I love every single little detail and I enjoyed seeing how you brought it all together! A wonderful post... Anne xx

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  4. Simply stunning, so happy that you shared this with us at Stampotique 😊

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  5. absolutely love this idea!! so very very cool.. like seriously amazing!

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  6. WOW! WOW! WOW! This is so amazing! So many details and love went into this beauty!

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  7. Wow, this is amazing! The work and details!! Thanks for sharing with us at stampotique

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  8. What a great little book. I love this.

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