Heather's Paper Playroom

  I had some fun experimenting with Guilding Wax for the Journal Together October monthly prompt last year. I used  the Journal Romance Special kit from Elizabeth Craft Designs for this project. I started by cutting the nesting rectangles from the Coffee Dyed  papers   & some brown cardstock. I rubbed some guilding wax around the edges with my fingers. I cut the lock and key out of bazzil cardstock so I could use the textured side to see how the guilding wax would look on it. I rubbed the guilding wax over the entire front of the die cuts.  I love how it turned out! It gives such a neat texture. I also rubbed some guilding wax onto a piece of white cardstock to create a matching paper! I cut out two of the pocket pieces and used the matching die to create the openings.  Again, I used my guilding wax on the edges and around the openings.  I used the guilding wax paper behind the openings in the pockets.   I decided to also cut out a flower and ...

 Every now and then I have a die cut shape that I want to add journaling to without using my handwriting.  Here’s my little trick to do that. I create a text box in a word document and size it to fit the opening on my die cut. Print your journaling out on a blank piece of printer paper. Use washi tape to attach your die cut over top of the printing on that piece of paper. I hold it up to a bright light to make sure I have it in the right place. You can see that I added lots of tape on the top so that it doesn’t catch when it is fed into the printer.  Run that page through your printer again and voila!  This  works  really well on thinner die cuts. Cardstock weight or less would be best. Anything heavier likely won’t run through a printer.  Thanks for stopping by and have a FANTASTIC day! . 

 Hi everyone! Today I’m sharing an alternate way to create a fold out element in my art journal. I recently shared similar but different instructions to make this on the ECD blog. This time, I started by partially cutting out my paper using the pocket die from set 2211 Shielded Window. The key was to make sure that my die cutting plate was not over the end of the die as you can see in the photo below. This resulted in a partially cut out piece. I trimmed off the loose pieces with my scissors.  My next step was to line up the die with half of the previous cut and tape it down with washi.  Make sure to line up those little notches.  Place this back in your die cutting machine ensuring that the previously cut end is not under your plate, as shown below.  This will create a 3 section piece and I cut two of these.  Trim off the flaps on the top and bottom leaving the notches in place.  Attach the two pieces together using the side tab and decorate as desire...

I purchased this kit from Stamplicity a while back and put it together last summer.  This kit uses the ARToptions Spice collection and it is fall/pumpkin themed.  I don’t typically have a lot of fall/pumpkin photos so I changed things up to suit my taste.  My cover is very similar to the kit design. Most of the pages are different from the kit design though.  I love adding flips and flaps so this page has half flaps secured with magnets.  This next page had a fantastic interactive page designed by Michelle Canasa-Sammut for the class.  It has a top and bottom flap that is folded in half to meet at the middle.  You can understand it better by watching the short flip through video at the end.  I decided to add a waterfall on the back page.  Just pull the ticket and they all flip.  Of course the back of the album needs to be covered too! Check out this short flip through video to see it all in action.  Thanks so much for stopping by. I...