It’s a privilege to be part of the AFTH’s birthday blog. You will get back to my blog hop post from the Dylusions team hop. If you haven't hopped then you need to start at Dyan's blog.
I love using Dylusions products. If you haven’t encountered them before there
are stamps, spray inks and acrylic paints.
I opted for the Dylusions team for the blog and if you scroll down
through my blog you will find other posts about using these products.
I decided I would make a minibook as my Dylusions
project. I sprayed Dylusions inks onto
an A1 sheet of watercolour paper on both sides and then randomly sprayed
through sequin waste. I used Warm
Leather, Velvet, Cyan, Aubergine and Lime.
When the paper had dried I cut it up into 12” x 5” pieces. I
finished up with 8 pieces and some odd bits left over.
Using a scoring board I scored at the “2, 6” and 10” mark on
4 of the pieces and at 4” and 8” on the other 4 pieces and then folded. I put the folded pages into pairs.
Using the Dylusions stamp sets: Around the Edge, How does
your garden grow and Further round the edge I stamped randomly on the pages.
I cut one of the spare pieces of paper down to 4½” x 3½” and
then ran it through the Cuttlebug in a Tim Holtz embossing folder. I then highlighted some of the raised parts
with Dylusions White and Turquoise acrylic paints.I cut 4 of the other spare pieces down to 5” x 3” and folded
these in half. And on the last piece of
spare paper stamped some journaling tags from the Write between the lines set
and cut them out.
The last thing to do before assembling was to stamp quotes
on some of the pages using Quintessential Quotes, The right words and Say what
you mean.
Assembling the book.
I made signatures with 2 of the large folded pieces and one small piece and sewed each signature together.
Then holding the 4 signatures together I wove embroidery thread through the stitches in the signatures.
And then added charms to the long threads left from sewing the signatures. And added the embossed paper onto the front cover to complete the book.
