Tutorial and Travel Mini Book

Hello to all our Imaginarium Designs Friends!

Today I have a tutorial and a Travel Mini Book to share using lots of gorgeous chipboard including some new release!
I wanted to come up with something a little trendy! So I thought I would use some newly released chevrons/arrows and hexagons! Travelling is one of my passion, I love visiting and learning about places, 2 years ago I went back to my country of birth, France, and we went visiting a region called "Alsace" on France's Eastern Border. We had such a great time there, and believe or not, I have never scrapped any of these photos! The mini album was inspired by the photo on the front of my album, this gorgeous doorway. I so so love how everything is old and beautiful over there...
I wanted to recreate this old shabby look on my cover, to keep with my travel theme...
So I will start with my tutorial today:

"Shabby Paint Effect Tutorial"

Gather your supplies:

- Chipboard piece

- Gesso

- Paint - 2 contrasting colours - I used "white" and "Pistachio"

- Heatgun

- Baby wipes

- Craft Knife

1. Cover your chipboard with 2 coats of Gesso.
Let dry completely.
2. Cover with white paint - or with colour you want on the bottom layer - the layer that will not get peeled off. Let dry completely.

3. Cover with your other colour (Pistachio here),







4. Dry using a heatgun, STOP when paint is not 
quite dry but has lost its shine.

5. Now take a baby wipe and remove top coat in some areas, you want to create an aged/worn background, use your creative intuition. You can't really go wrong here!



 

6. Do more peeling with your craft knife - your baby wipes made the top coat nice and wet and your craft knife will easily peel off the paint -

the bottom layer will show beautifully underneath.

You can try this technique on any piece of chipboard, big or small, I really hope you will give this a go, it is easy and very effective!




 Now let's have a look at my mini album:

"Travel"

I used "Windows and Shutter in board" as the front and constructed the rest of the album (spine + back) by tracing around the window. Everything is held together with my favourite tool: masking tape. Because everything is going to be painted the masking tape will be disguised (see above tutorial).

The pages of my album are made of watercolour paper. I used "Honeycombe" template for my background which I used with some Green Glimmermist. Very easy to use, you just have to make sure you hold the template firmly in place.
Here are the inside pages. I kept the chipboard raw with some "Walnut Stain" Distress Ink on the edges. I just love the look of raw chipboard, it was perfect with the green and cream colour scheme I chose to work with.

I also created a mini paper bag to match my mini album, I thought it would be a nice way to present my mini album. I used the same techniques and colours as my mini album to decorate it.

Imaginarium Designs Products used:

BIRD CAGE SMALL IDT0019

 

LOOLABELLE'S CHEVRONS #2 IDDL0022

LOOLABELLE'S CHEVRONS #1 IDDL0020

LOOLABELLE'S LOVE IDDL0023

COMPASS WITH TRAVEL WORDS ON BOARD TINY IDT0017

HONEYCOMBE 6X6 IDS0054

WINDOWS AND SHUTTERS IN BOARD IDS0058

MAIN LETTER SET (SMALL) IDA0005

IDS0065 CHIPBOARD SQUARE 12X12

Other Products used:
Pion Design Paper, watercolour paper pad, masking tape, white and pistachio paints, gesso, walnut stain distress ink, Kaisercraft rhinestones, kitchen twine, Prima leaves, white paper bag, ribbon, American Craft Stamps, Kaisercraft stamps, circle punches.

Thanks for coming by, I hope you enjoyed it! Leave me a comment to be in the running to win some gorgeous chipboard! Until next time, happy scrapping!