Curley Has a Birthday. It Called for Art!
My friend Curley (her real name is Cheryl and when we met long ago, she had a "curly do" but she doesn't get perms anymore, but the name stuck!) had a birthday yesterday. I wanted to give her something reflecting my art and our friendship. Yeah. I could have just gotten her a gift card from Hobby Lobby, but that's not personally reflective, just easy. I had been watching my YouTube guy, Mike Deakin of Mike Deakin Art (suggest you all take a look at his stuff sometime) and he had been making a lapbook. I sorta followed his suggestions, adapted mine differently, and went with it. I am showing you pictures of the finished book I made for Curley for her birthday.
This is the front and back cover. The ribbon is to tie it shut and is riveted on with a pink eyelet into the spine of the booklet. The charms at the top of the spine are attached to a piece of chain with removable jeweler's rings, and the chain is attached with a jeweled brad. I bought the charms at a local store, and the brad, eyelet and ribbon. Otherwise, everything else in the book was created by me in some way or the other.
These are the first two pages of the book. I used cereal box cardboard for the construction and covered each page with scrapbook papers of some kind. Pages were attached to each other with masking tape and spines were made from the same cardboard. I used pink ink over the masking tape, then covered it with some musical Washi tape. The yellow roses and leaves were made from latex caulk in a rose mold by Mod Podge. Then painted with acrylic paint. The butterfly was die cut from Yupo paper that I had stained with alcohol inks in fushia and purple. I coated it with Glossy Accents.
These pages are covered with patterned papers. Wine bottles cut from a scrap I had left over from another project. Curley had given me a coffee mug for Christmas with the same sentiment on it, so I cut a mug, ran the handle through my embosser, added the "coffee" and "steam."
I love this page spread. the paper on the right had an Oriental feeling to it, as the left page did also. I drew the left branch and berries to match or blend in with the branches on the right. The bird is from a stamp by Dina Wakley (one of my fav designers) and the quote is a quote is from her, also. The quote on the right top is in English which I typed into a Japanese translator on the internet and got the resulting Japanese that is on the bottom. I hope it actually says what I think it says!! I watercolored the bird that I stamped on watercolor paper, then fussy cut and pasted onto the branch.
Same type of construction on these pages. I made the frames on the left with another Mod Podge mold and put silver paper behind them. The heart is a lacy die cut accented with pink gel pen. On the right is a tag in a pocket with the lettering on the sentiment heat embossed with white embossing powder. The right page background is brown ink on light craft paper with a swirl stamp.
The back side of the tag is another lacy heart die cut. The brown background is just the unprinted side of the cardboard of the cereal box.
Of course I needed a card to go along with the "gift." So, back to the drawing board. I found the "frame" paper a while ago as I was perusing the paper shelves at Hobby Lobby. I cut the frame on my Cricut, used some corner rounder scissors to do the corners. I stamped the "Happy Birthday" on in pink ink from Studio G. The flowers I molded in the Mod Podge rose mold and painted them with acrylic paint. The leaves, too. I coated them all with a heavy gloss coat medium and let them dry, glued them on the card and edged the card front * with pink ink.
*As I readied the card to glue the flowers on, I discovered that I had stamped Happy Birthday on the card, but upside down. So, I cut the front off the card, made a card base from 120# cardstock, and attached the front to the base. Since the whites didn't exactly match, that's when I went around the edge of the front with the pink ink. Then I glued on the flowers.!! Solved another artistic booboo!!
All sentiments, poetry and other quotes are from the internet. I lay no claim to any of them. Most were from Google images. Thanks to any who might have added them to the internet's vast collection.
Long post, but worth sharing with all of you. I want to thank my friend Curley for letting me share, and my friend Kelli for helping me master my "fancy camera" to get the pics. She is a much better photog than I will ever hope to be. Her nature photos are amazing! She should start a blog.
Until next time,
Go, create something!
JF
This is the front and back cover. The ribbon is to tie it shut and is riveted on with a pink eyelet into the spine of the booklet. The charms at the top of the spine are attached to a piece of chain with removable jeweler's rings, and the chain is attached with a jeweled brad. I bought the charms at a local store, and the brad, eyelet and ribbon. Otherwise, everything else in the book was created by me in some way or the other.
These are the first two pages of the book. I used cereal box cardboard for the construction and covered each page with scrapbook papers of some kind. Pages were attached to each other with masking tape and spines were made from the same cardboard. I used pink ink over the masking tape, then covered it with some musical Washi tape. The yellow roses and leaves were made from latex caulk in a rose mold by Mod Podge. Then painted with acrylic paint. The butterfly was die cut from Yupo paper that I had stained with alcohol inks in fushia and purple. I coated it with Glossy Accents.
These pages are covered with patterned papers. Wine bottles cut from a scrap I had left over from another project. Curley had given me a coffee mug for Christmas with the same sentiment on it, so I cut a mug, ran the handle through my embosser, added the "coffee" and "steam."
I love this page spread. the paper on the right had an Oriental feeling to it, as the left page did also. I drew the left branch and berries to match or blend in with the branches on the right. The bird is from a stamp by Dina Wakley (one of my fav designers) and the quote is a quote is from her, also. The quote on the right top is in English which I typed into a Japanese translator on the internet and got the resulting Japanese that is on the bottom. I hope it actually says what I think it says!! I watercolored the bird that I stamped on watercolor paper, then fussy cut and pasted onto the branch.
Same type of construction on these pages. I made the frames on the left with another Mod Podge mold and put silver paper behind them. The heart is a lacy die cut accented with pink gel pen. On the right is a tag in a pocket with the lettering on the sentiment heat embossed with white embossing powder. The right page background is brown ink on light craft paper with a swirl stamp.
The back side of the tag is another lacy heart die cut. The brown background is just the unprinted side of the cardboard of the cereal box.
Of course I needed a card to go along with the "gift." So, back to the drawing board. I found the "frame" paper a while ago as I was perusing the paper shelves at Hobby Lobby. I cut the frame on my Cricut, used some corner rounder scissors to do the corners. I stamped the "Happy Birthday" on in pink ink from Studio G. The flowers I molded in the Mod Podge rose mold and painted them with acrylic paint. The leaves, too. I coated them all with a heavy gloss coat medium and let them dry, glued them on the card and edged the card front * with pink ink.
*As I readied the card to glue the flowers on, I discovered that I had stamped Happy Birthday on the card, but upside down. So, I cut the front off the card, made a card base from 120# cardstock, and attached the front to the base. Since the whites didn't exactly match, that's when I went around the edge of the front with the pink ink. Then I glued on the flowers.!! Solved another artistic booboo!!
All sentiments, poetry and other quotes are from the internet. I lay no claim to any of them. Most were from Google images. Thanks to any who might have added them to the internet's vast collection.
Long post, but worth sharing with all of you. I want to thank my friend Curley for letting me share, and my friend Kelli for helping me master my "fancy camera" to get the pics. She is a much better photog than I will ever hope to be. Her nature photos are amazing! She should start a blog.
Until next time,
Go, create something!
JF
Oh my friend, thank you so much for such a beautiful present from your heart. I know you put a lot of thought and hours into making it for me and I cherish it. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
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