Hello again!  Today I’ve got the second half of my Plain Jane travel album.  I shared the first half yesterday, leaving off with the front of the super sturdy chipboard album page.  So, let’s get right back into the swing of things with the back of that page, shall we?

I added some ephemera bits and included our train ticket stubs from the trip.  Everything’s sealed down with more Mod Podge. 

I tend to save little bits and pieces and put them in boxes or leave them hiding in my suitcase, not to be seen again until we start packing for the next trip, so it was nice to actually get these out and finally do something with them. 

On the next envelope page, I printed another altered version of a photo from the exhibit directly onto the envelope.  I Glimmer Misted the page before sealing it and adding some metal snowflakes. 

The image size was almost exactly twice the size of the envelope.  Rather than shrinking or cropping it I printed the two halves of the image on top of one another by running the envelope through the printer twice. 

On the back of the envelope is a photo of some of our group during a walk through Central Park.

The metal brad serves as something like a little handle to open the envelope flap. 

This picture was applied to the envelope with the same paint transfer process I mentioned in yesterday’s post.  It left the photo looking somewhat ghostly, which I really liked.  That white text at the bottom was added using one of my favorite Zig pens – my white Posterman paint pen.  It’s got a super fine tip and a great flow so it writes just as easily as a regular old ball point pen. 

The photos on the back of the envelope are of the lot of us along with Duke after his fantastic concert at the museum. 

The inside of the back cover has a photo I took with my phone during the (really really really) long wait for the train at the station in Atlanta.  The photo is framed with a bit from the Basically Bare Paparazzi set.  It’s colored with alcohol ink and spritzed with some Glimmer Mist. 

The film strip frame keeps the little photo from getting lost among the dimensional embellishments around it.

That’s it for this album.  I hope you liked it; I certainly had a great time putting it together!

Thanks so much for looking!

x Beth

Hey guys!  Welcome back to the design blog!  Today I’ve got the first of a two-part post showing a travel journal I made out of a Basically Bare Plain Jane album.  It is the perfect album for this purpose, since it has four policy envelopes as pages which are ideal for storing little mementos.

The papers in the album are from Graphic 45′s Communique collection.  The front cover has bits from a few different pages collaged together and then Mod Podged within an inch of its life.

A little jute cord embellishes the binding rings.

The album is about our trip to New York City last March to see a concert by Duke Special at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Since the trip was made largely for the purpose of seeing the concert, and the songs performed were based on photographs from an exhibit at the museum, I included some altered images of the photos.  This is one, printed directly onto the envelope.

There is a bit of jute and some Glimmer Mist added.  Like the cover, all of the envelopes have been Mod Podged like crazy.

On the back side of the first envelope I added a photo taken while we were out wandering in the city, which was printed on a transparency.

The front of the next envelope has another altered version of a photo from the Met exhibit.  It was applied to the envelope by printing it on regular paper and placing that paper face-down on the envelope which was covered in (still wet) metallic acrylic paint.  Once the paint dried, the paper was dampened and removed a bit at a time, leaving the image in the paint.

Once the image was set into the paint it was coated with Mod Podge and some embellishments were added.

On the back of this envelope, a photo from the concert, again printed on a transparency, was cut into two parts and attached with Glossy Accents.

In the middle of the four envelope pages is a sturdy chipboard page.  I covered the front of this page with part of the museum map and added a photo of several of us who met up in New York to see the show.

Mod Podge.  It is a good friend of mine.  I left a little tab of the map hanging over the edge of the page, strengthened up with a generous coat of the ‘Podge.

I’ll be back tomorrow to share the second half of this album.  I hope you’ll come back by and check it out!

Thanks so much for looking!

x Beth

Hey everyone! Today I’m sharing a fun spin on the Plain Jane Krafty Keepsake Album. I took the album apart and made a  banner out of it! This is for my daughter’s room, and she is definitely a princess at heart, so I went with several dresses made from Dress Me Up Dress Forms. I also used some Bare Basics Wings and Bare Basics Blossoms & Leaves. I relied on fabulous products from Tattered Angels, Wow Embossing Powders, and Kuretake to help me complete this and my daughter loves it!

Last year I took my very first road trip with the girls.  We headed for the Smokey Mountains and had the time of our lives.  We had 5 days of driving, laughing and just plain fun.  It is exciting to explore with close friends and see sights through new eyes.

4 good friends on a trip of a lifetime!

Pages 2 and 3

I used the chipboard Basically Bare camera and filmstrip.  I used WOW embossing powders on the camera.  Love how it turned out.

Pages 4 and 5

Pages 6 and 7

This Basically Bare album is so unique it has window cut outs on some of the pages.  As you peek through the window on the left you will see our trip mascot, Andy.  What a joy he was to travel with.  On the right there are 4 smaller windows to look through.

The back cover of my book.

I hope you enjoyed my post today and are wanting to give it a try.  The many mini albums from Basically Bare are so diverse and offer so many opportunities  for any subject.

Sandra

Products Used:  Basically Bare Wonky Windows

WOW Embossing Powders,  Basically Bare Camera & Filmstrip

Hello Basically Bare fans!  Jan here sharing a fun project that’s loaded with Basically Bare Gears, embossing powder and Graphic 45 papers.  It’s held using a vintage trinkets holder and I’ve added a bit of corrugated cardboard to the back of the holder so I could build up my design.  The gears have been heat embossed with WOW! Embossing Powder.

I’m baaaack!!  Today I’m sharing the 2nd half of my 52 Week Rowdy Roadster album.  Thanks so much for all of the wonderful comments on part one.  I hope this half inspires you just as much.

Yesterday, I left off with the front side of the double acrylic tags that I ran through the cuttlebug.  I swiped both with white acrylic paint so that they would stand out against the the canvas page that follows.  I hot glued feathers and Petaloo flowers to the top tag and coated the embossed flourish with PK Glitz glitter on the bottom tag.  I tied tulle through both tags for an added feminine touch.

This canvas page was really fun to work on.  I embossed the page using WOW embossing powder in earth tone nutmeg and WOW’s brocade stamp, an idea that I got from our very own Beth Gaddis. (thanks for the inspiration!!)   I have to admit, heat embossing such a large canvas area was tedious work.  I had to heat it longer than paper but just shy of actually burning the fabric.  Once that was done, I stitched around the page, about 1/2″ from the edge and then frayed and inked the edges.

The stitching and fraying  were already done from the front side of this page.  I used a mask and glimmer mist to create the background and then added rub-ons and embellishments once the page was fully dried.

This tag is wonderful for displaying either a couple of small photos or one large photo.   I chose to keep the embellishments simple and added 2- 5×7 photos (one to either side of the page) and sheer ribbon for a pop of color.

I tore off the top layer of the inside of the back cover and  covered the bottom with patterned paper.  I painted, stamped, and added rub-ons to the exposed ridges.  I nestled a felt Stack-A-Bellies Bird in the strip of rosettes, but not before spritzing it with Silver Foil glimmer mist.  I attached a chipboard wing that was coated with glitter and then added pen work to the bird.

I covered the back cover with patterned paper and added strips of tulle to the rings to finish off the album.

This is probably the chunkiest album I’ve ever made, but I love every inch of it!!   That’s all for now…until next post…happy scrapping!!

Tanisha

Hello there Basically Bare blog readers!!  If you’ve been following Basically  Bare either here on the blog or the Facebook page then you know all about the wonderful new products that were released at CHA.  Today, I’m sharing what I created using the Rowdy Roadster mixed media album.  I also used canvas leaves from the Bare Basics Blossoms and Leaves set, a chipboard filmstrip from the Paparazzi Embellie Set, and a chipboard and cardboard dress form from the Dress Me Up Dress forms set, and buttons in this first of my 2 part post.

I turned this album into a technique “free-for-all” displaying my favorite photos from the 52 Week Project that I participated in last year.   I painted, stamped, stickled, heat and dry embossed, and glittered until I liked the results.

I used WOW embossing powder in high gloss silver on the filmstrip and then swiped it with charcoal ink and white acrylic paint.  I dry embossed the dress form and then heat embossed it using copper WOW embossing powder and then covered the bottom with  strips of rosettes that were spritzed with silver foil glimmer mist.  I added feathers (which are really hot right now) and pearls to really “girlify” the dress form.  Before adhering the embellishments to the acrylic cover, I added a glittered flourish and swiped the back with white acrylic paint.

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I added another dress form to the inside cover.  I tore away the first layer of cardboard to reveal the ridges.  I lightly painted it with white acrylic paint and stamped it using a stamp from WOW’s Call Me Stamp set to add the script print.

I love how the different shaped pages add so much character to this album.

I painted the canvas leaf with glimmer glaze.  Once dried, I slightly curled the end to add dimension.

I created the background of this page by inking over a Tim Holtz mask and embossing with WOW powder in earth tone olive.

I ran both tags through the cuttlebug before swiping with acrylic paint and adding stickles.  I love the texture that the dry embossing adds!

Thanks for stopping by the blog today!  Stop by tomorrow to see part 2 of this album!!

Tanisha

Is everyone wishing for the end of Winter and the dawning of Spring?  For sure I am, and it shows in my current projects.  Jamie here with you again today with a wonderful Spring inspired card.

I started the background off with a gorgeous paper from Webster’s Pages and then stamped the entire background with a script stamp.

Now, on to creating the heart.  I spritzed a canvas heart with water until it was thoroughly saturated.  Then I used two colors of Gelatos ink and just scribbled the color onto the heart.  Then, using the best tool in my scraproom (my fingers!), I blended the colors together.  Getting my fingers inky is half the fun!

Once the heart was dry, I layered on two sizes of felt wings and hand stitched them to the heart.  The butterflies were punched from a transparency sheet, inked with alcohol inks, then adhered to the heart.

Until next time, keep those creative juices flowing!

Jamie here with you again today with a project that’s a bit different for me.  My 13 year old niece is always looking for jewelry that’s different and edgy.  Well, who has chipboard or acrylic earrings?   Now she’ll have two different sets!

Both sets of earrings use the Basically Embellies Buttons.  This first set uses the chipboard pieces.  I simply added some ink and paint to the buttons. Once the paint was dry, I just layered one button on top of the other.

Once the ink was dry, I just added some jump rings and a charm.  Super simple.

The second set uses the Acrylic buttons, which were inked with alcohol inks.  These were also layered, but instead of centering the pieces, I matched them up at the top for a layered look.

Good morning everyone.  Today I am bringing you a project I just love and had so much fun creating.  First I must give you a little background on how I found this small slate board.  A few weeks ago, while visiting my daughter, she took me to one of her favorite places to look for vintage goodies.  Grandma’s Attic is the name of the treasure trove.  When you enter through the front door watch out!  There is only small paths leading to piles of “stuff”.  The place was overloaded with old and new sewing machines, covers, material, thread, patterns and lots of off the wall ‘things’.  If you are a digger/picker this is your kind of place.  I knew I wanted to go through as many piles as I could before we had to leave.  I found many treasures and one of them was my small slate board near the bottom of a pile.

The slate board is decorated with Graphic 45 papers and lots of Basically Bare product.

A close up photo of the hearts and lock.  I used WOW Embossing Powders.  The bringing together of Basically Bare Products and the WOW products is a marriage made in heaven.  The vibrant colors and ease of use is perfect for scrapbookers.

Another close up.

The flower is made using a vintage yo-yo circle from a quilt.  The button is made of acrylic from Basically Bare.  I really like seeing the flower color through the acrylic.

My completed project.

I hope you enjoyed my post today and feel inspired to try it.

Sandra

Products used:  Basically Bare Hearts, Lovely Locket Set and Buttons.

WOW Embossing Powders