Welcome to the first day of the
Great British Blog Hop organised by Nicola at Sunshine Reflections. It's
a real privilege to start off.
I'm a
Design Team member for Praierie Papier Cottage and after having fun with July 4th kit I
asked Anita to design a kit based on the British Union Flag. Anita ran with the
colours and diagonals and inspired by the Olympic Rings produced this fantastic
kit.
Here in
the UK, 2012 has been quite a year with the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, the
journey of the Olympic Torch for 70 days, a British man and team winning the
Tour de France and now the excitement of the Olympics. And there's still
the Paralympics to come.
I
decided for this blog hop to celebrate Great Britain I would use Anita's kit to make a mini book which can
be used as a journal or as an album to record memories of 2012. Of course it
could be used for any purpose which is why I haven't put a title on the cover.
To make a book the same as mine you will need three sheets of 12x12 cardstock. You can use all one colour or use one sheet of red, white and blue. From each sheet cut 4 pieces of 7"x5". You will need a ruler, knife and cutting mat for this unless you're really clever with a cutter. This will give you 12 pages for your book.
Using A4
card print out the images that you prefer from the kit. To do this on a PC I
right clicked on the jpg file in the folder where I had saved the images. Then
clicked on Print. This brings up a menu where I chose to print 2 images
on one sheet and clicked on fit to border. This produces print copies just over
7x5". You will need four images for the covers. Cut 2 pieces of
board for the covers and adhere the printed images on either side.
Optional:
sand the edges of the covers and ink.
To
decorate the inside pages print out a further 2 sheets of images. You may need
more depending on how much you decide to decorate. Here are photos of 2 books side by side showing different papers.
Punch
holes in the covers and pages. I put one hole in the middle and the others 1.5
inches from the top or bottom edge. I put book rings through and tied ribbons on.
The joy
of mixing a digital kit with scrapbooking materials is that there's no limit to
what you can apart from how much ink you've got in your printer!
In fact I made 6 books because I have a stall at a craft fair later in August.
Giveaway
Thank
you for visiting my blog. In honour of the Blog Hop pleaseleave a
comment below by Noon (BST) on Friday and I will choose someone to win their own copy of the
digi kit I used.
Blog Hop
Now hop over to Fishcake Random for the next part of your journey. If you get lost, you can always go back to Sunshine Reflections to find the journey order, which i have put here also.
August 1st
Bernice (that's me!)
August 2nd
