Art from the Heart's birthday blog hop

Welcome to a very exciting blog hop in Celebration of 10 years of Art from the Heart!

Lots of exciting things happening at Art from the Heart next weekend where the big birthday bash is happening. Want to know more then do click here

So in Celebration we are having 5 birthday blog hops.

You should have reached my blog from Catherine's blog and are on the Dylusions team hop

here is my project

I used
Dylusions Spray Inks: Warm Leather, Velvet, Cyan, Aubergine and Lime
Dylusions Stamps:  Around the Edge, How does your garden grow, Further round the edge, Write between the lines, Quintessential Quotes, The right words and Say what you mean.

If you would like to find out more about how I made the book go to this post, but don't forget to come back here to collect your letter and move on to the next blog in the Dylusions team hop. 

Before you move on - you will need to collect a letter from me which is

 U

This is part of an anagram of a Dylusions product

Once you get back to Dy's blog please email your answer to Ben
by 6pm Sunday 11th September

So after leaving me a comment you need to move on to

Kirsty

Have fun hopping!

Art from the Heart Birthday Blog project

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.

Opening on Monday

The countdown has begun.  

The WhollyCreative Etsy shop will open for business on Monday 5th September.

WhollyCreative can be found on Facebook and on Etsy