Album Details

Album: The Tinkering Ink Peekaboo Album I used doesn’t seem to be in stock anymore. Hopefully you’ll use something you already have anyway but if you’re looking for a mini with shapes punched out like mine, the closest thing I can find to it is this one, which is on clearance right now.

Album Color: By experimenting, I got a lovely mottled yellow on my pages that reminds me of colored Easter eggs. You know how colored eggs never come out smooth and perfect like they do on the cover of magazines?. I love the uneven colored-eggs look on my pages. Here’s how I got it:

* Painted 2 layers of Golden’s Gesso. (You could try white acrylic paint if you don’t have gesso).
* Sprayed a layer of Lemon Meringue Glimmer Mist and blended it in.
* Spritzed some uneven splotches of Lemon Grass Glimmer Mist. I rubbed the Lemon Grass with my blending tool. The foam applicator left a lot of “bubbling” in the mist, I think because of the gesso, and then set the bubbles and splotches with a heat tool.

Handmade flowers: I made my large turquoise flower out of Tim Holtz Grunge Board. To color the petals I painted two layers of gesso, then sprayed and dried multiple layers of Patina Glimmer Mist.

It turns out that the gesso was not holding the Patina dye color, so it came out light, although very beautifully glimmery. Liz Hicks from Tattered Angels suggested using Making Memories Spotlight acrylic paint on chipboard or grunge board if you want the dye color to show more vibrantly.

The tiny paper flowers and the large flower were inspired by the artist, Alisa Burke. The orange paperclipped flower is from Paperclipping Episode #118, which is now archived, but available to our Members.

In this tutorial, you’ll see:

* How to place photos to make many work together
* How to pick patterned paper that works with your photos
* How to add embellishments without them being too much

This week’s video is for members only.

In this tutorial, you’ll see:

* How to use a stamp to add dimension to your layout
* How to position your stamps after you’ve already stamped them
* Examples of the concepts in action

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Below are the layouts I featured in this week’s episode…

In this tutorial, you’ll see:

* How to add mystery to your journaling
* Examples of scrapbooking “inside jokes”
* Examples of scrapbooking private details from your life
* Tips for using “stream of consciousness” journaling to create a background texture

This new episode of Paperclipping will show you how to do something that many people struggle with – how to design an interesting layout without using a photo as a focal point.

In the video, you’ll see:

* How to create a focal point in the place of a photo
* How to place the focal point
* How to anchor the focal point
* A fun example of the concepts in action

This week’s episode is the last for 2009! Many thanks to all the Paperclipping Members, whose memberships make it possible for us to produce these tutorials.

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