Heidi Swapp PRODUCTS HS00867 Fancy Edge Wood Album HS00980 Believe 12" x 12" Paper Pad HS00751 Color Magic Chipboard Alpha HS00752 Color Magic Notes HS00796 Color Shine: Chartreuse HS00800 Color Shine Cherry HS00794 Color Shine Black HS00724 12x12 Hexagon Stencil HS00869 6x6 Polka Dot Stencil HS00860 Seam Binding Ribbon OTHER SUPPLIES Trimmer / Scissors Paper Towels Black Ink Hole Punch Adhesive & Foam Adhesive Silver Glitter White Acrylic Paint Mod Podge Triangle Make Up Sponge Foam Brush (for applying Mod Podge) believe mini album By Heidi Swapp
Color Shine Misting 1. Spray the front and back of both covers of the Fancy Wood Album with Chartreuse Color Shine allow to dry 2. Spray 2013 with Chartreuse Color Shine 3. Spray Merry with Black Velvet Color Shine 4. Spray 2 diagonal striped Color Magic Notes with Black Velvet Color Shine 5. Clean tags with a light wiping with glass cleaner.
Stenciling 1. Mix a small amount of Mod Podge and White Acrylic paint onto your craft mat 2. Using the 6" x 6" polkadot stencil and mod podge / paint mixture, stencil dots sporadically like snowflakes falling down the back cover (add this to both sides of the back covers and the front cover inside). 3. Blend a little mix around bottom edges of both inside covers.
Stenciling 4. Spray Chartreuse Color Shine into your mod podge / paint mixture to tint it slightly. 5. Lay the hexagon stencil over the back of the back cover, and lightly stencil hexagons using the mod podge/paint mixture and a make up sponge
Stenciling 6. Lay the 6" x 6" polkadot stencil over 18 of white seam binding ribbon and spray with Chartreuse Color Shine.
Masking with Washi Tape 7. Cut a piece of 12 white seam binding ribbon, and tape off the 2 ends at ½ increments. Spray ribbon using Sweet Cherry Color Shine. Blot, and remove tape. Set aside to dry.
Creating Covers: FRONT 1. Cut the Joy to the World 3x4 out of the Believe paper pad, adhere 1 down from the top and centered left to right. 2. Cut out the ribbon template (provided on the last page of these instructions) and trace on the back of the black and white striped paper from the paper pad. 3. Adhere the 2 ribbon tails slightly overlapping, and below the card. Cut (2) 1 x 2 strips of the joy to the world paper and cut a V from each bottom and layer over the striped tails. 4. Bring the left and right sides of the larger bow loop together and staple in the center
Creating Covers: FRONT 5. Do the same with the smaller loop, and staple in the center 6. Place the smaller loop over the larger loop, and wrap a ½ x 2 piece of red paper around the center. Adhere to the cover, in the center over the tails using hot glue. 7. Cut the top of the naughty and nice card, and wrap around the bottom edge of the front cover so the text shows. Cut around the Santa head, and mount with 3D foam. 8. Coat the entire cover with Mod Podge, including the Santa head and bow. While the Mod Podge was wet, sprinkle the glitter and sequins on the cover, and coat completely with Mod Podge again. 9. Add black ink around the edges. Cut a 1 ¼ x 2 ½ tag from the Star paper and a 1 x 3 tag from the Believe tag. Tie the 2 tags, and dotted ribbon to the top hole on the wood..
Creating Covers: BACK 1. Cut several hexagons from the Hexagon paper in the Believe Paper Pad, and adhere inside the stenciled hexagon areas on the back cover. 2. Use the hexagon cut outs as a template to cut extra hexagon patterns from other paper scraps in the collection, and adhere. 3. Coat entire back cover with Mod Podge, and sprinkle glitter and sequins into the wet Mod Podge. 4. Add another coat of Mod Podge & add black ink around the edges.
Creating Covers: INSIDES INSIDE FRONT INSIDE BACK 1. Cut the tis the season card out of the patterned paper in the Believe Paper Pad and cut it into a tag shape. adhere to the top left of the inside cover. 2. Adhere the 2013 chipboard letters to the inside of the cover, approximately 1.5 up from the bottom.
Inside: PAGES 1. Cut a 6" x 8" piece of the multi-colored diagonal paper in half, and adhere. 2. Cut a V from the bottom and add the word Merry to the right edge. This will go inside the album so punch holes on the side using the cardstock pages included with the album as your guide. 3. Cut the words Merry Christmas from the paper in the Paper Pad to 1 ¾ x 5 ½ ; cut into a tag shape and punch a hole in the left side.
Inside: PAGES 4. Cut a 9 x 8 piece of the cream Snowflake paper and fold in half, and adhere together. 5. Cut 5 hexagons out of the Hexagon paper and arrange and adhere to page as shown. Cut a half circle that will line up with the next page. 6. Cut the merry & bright paper to 8 x 12 ; cut a 2 ¾ circle 2 up from the bottom and ⅛ from the right edge.
Inside: PAGES 7. Cut Star paper, to go behind the circle opening. 8. Fold & adhere Merry & Bright paper together (make sure you adhere star paper inside first). 9. Cut the joy to the world out of the Joy To The World patterned paper and adhere popped up in the circle opening. 10. NOTE: Make sure cream snowflake paper (steps 4 & 5) line up over merry and bright paper on left side. These pages will go inside album.
Inside: PAGES 11. Cut a V in the bottom of the black and white color magic note, and adhere with ½ sticking out the top 11. Cut music paper to 8 tall, and fold in half. Open and cut on an angle from the top left corner to 2 ½ up from the bottom, stop at the crease.
Inside: PAGES 12. Cut a 6" x 8 piece of green patterned paper 13. Fold music paper in half, adhere the green chevron paper to the BACK of the right side of the music paper, angle side will fold over the top 14. Adhere the bottom to create a pocket.
Making the: CARD 15. Cut the Happy Holiday s card, and adhere in the center of the front centered, cut a 3" x 4" piece of scrap paper, and adhere behind, and from the inside of the pocket 16. Add a Santa Head, popped up with foam adhesive. 17. Cut joy to the world paper from the pad 7 ¼ x 12 ; fold 3 ¼ from the left, and 3 ¼ from the right; round all 4 corners. 18. Cut the big 25 from the 3" x 4" card, and layer over the shaped black and white color magic note, and staple on the right. Left side of the card will slide over the right, and under the color magic note.
Making the: CARD 19. This card will slide into the pocket page. 19. Cut the black chalkboard paper to 7 x 12 and fold in half. 20. Cut a half circle from the top edge of the left side of the crease. 21. Cut a piece of Black and White paper to show behind the half circle when closed and this piece is adhered together. Only add adhesive around edges to create a tag pocket.
Creating Tags: TAGS 1. Cut Santa paper to 9" x 7 ½ and fold in half. 2. Add the Jingle all the way cut from the paper in the pad, to the top edge of the front of the fold out card. 3. Cut Hexagon paper to 4 ¾ x 7 ½ and trim top corners into a tag shape. 4. Cut the multi colored diagonal paper to 3 ½ x 6 ½ ; cut a V from the bottom- adhere a scrap of green chevron at the top 5. Cut the joy filled holiday card into a tag shape with a deep V 6. Tie all 3 together on the left side of the tag with the striped ribbon.
Creating Tags: TAGS 7. Place one tag facing front, and the other facing backward allow tags to hang over the pocket 8. Cut Green Chevron to 8 x 12 and fold in half; fold left side in half again, and adhere to itself. Round left top and bottom corners 9. Cut the Countdown paper to 6" x 8 and adhere to the back of the right side of the Green Chevron fold.
Creating Tags: TAGS 10. Cut the santa baby and joy merry bright cards out, and adhere to back over the flap, slightly hanging off the left edge. 11. Add confetti stenciling if desired. *Punch all holes to fit album and put book rings through to bind.
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