2007 April 05 » fresh & fun

I took some quick pictures on how to start a paper bag book for splitcoast and thought I share it here as well. I haven’t finished it . This will only show a quick way to get your blank album started. (I am currently working on some design work I can’t share quite yet. I don’t like secret stamping….it’s hard for me not to share.)

Step one:

Position your lunch bags on top of each other. Alternate the open side one on the left, one on the right. If you have more then two lunch bags, just keep alternating. I used regular size in the pictures.

Step two:

Line your lunch bags up perfectly and fold them all in half.

Step three:

Sew the pages together close to the fold to keep pages together. You now have a blank book waiting to be decorated.

Step four:

Start decorating your front and pages. Add hidden pages or journaling in the open sides of the lunch bags.

Variations:

- Try different size or color lunch bags.
- Bind your pages together by punching holes on the spine and tie them together with ribbon.
- Bind them together with a binding tool like Bind-it-all or Rubicoil.
- Use eyelets, brads, paperclips to keep your pages together.

While working on the One Sheet box, I messed up and had to redo it. I still had the center piece leftover. So I turned it into this little 4″ square card.

I bought those bling brads at Scrapbook Heaven back in San Antonio! I am loving all my new stuff.

Again….I used Fancy Pants stamps on the cool Caribbean cardstock with white acrylic paint dauber. But before I did that, I used the dauber directly on the cardstock to achieve a painted looking background. The center image is inked up with Sea Breeze and Black Dew Drops. Charmaine told me you can use the Dew Drop ink with a blender pen to color in images. That’s what I did to the flower. I love the flower image. Well, I love the swirls and every other stamp in the Bella Brush set too. It’s so beautiful, it takes your breath away.