Shabby Mini Album
Posted by DecoArt on Mar 20th 2019
Hi it's Brenda here with you today. I have been having fun making this small shabby mini album with painted lace covers and some small collage panels inside. The album is a brand new from Tando Creative and being launched in March.
Using lace as the texture for my front cover proved to be a great way of getting the shabby chic effects I wanted and it really didn’t take too long.
Items Needed:
- DecoArt Media Mediums and Specialty Products - Texture Sand Paste (DMM23-71)
- DecoArt Media Mediums and Specialty Products - Gesso - White (DMM18-71)
- DecoArt Media Mediums and Specialty Products - Clear Matte Medium (DMM20-71)
- Tando Creative Mini Album/Journal
- Lace And Embellishments
- Heat Gun
Instructions:
Take the mini boards and using DecoArt Media Matte Medium glue some lace onto the outer covers. Let dry naturally or speed the process up with a heat gun.
Add a fine layer of DecoArt Media Texture Sand Paste in the gaps between each row of lace and again dry.
Take the cover boards and the page inserts and paint everything with a coat of White Gesso on both sides.
When everything is bone dry sand the edges and any rough spots then use a natural sponge to blend over a neutral palette of DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylic paints mixing the colours on the project spritzing and blending them together with a babywipe as you go. Dry each layer before adding another. I used Burnt Umber, Titanium White and Titan Buff.
Because I wanted the next layer of watery paint to seep into the recesses and not into the lace I gave the covers a couple of coats of Matte Medium. When they were dry I dipped and spritzed the washes over them then took some time to add the colours directly into the recesses with a small brush heat drying as I went.
Now came the time to add embellishments to the front cover…..
….and to add some collages to each of the pages and some uplifting words.
Once assembled I added some American seam binding to tie it together.
Thanks for popping in today. Please let us know if you try this out.
Hugs Brenda xxx