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.
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| Front, off on a road trip! |
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| Back cover - road stripes are made with washi tape |
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| The adventure begins! |
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| Hmm, is this the end? |
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| Nope! |
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| 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!
