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Seyd gegrüßt, Fremde und Freunde.
Hier wird gebastelbloggt. Ich fröhne meinem neuesten Hobby, dem Cardmaking - und vielleicht auch bald dem Scrapbooking - und das wird hier zur Schau gestellt.
Hoffe, die Sachen finden allgemeines Interesse und Wohlwollen. Ich bitte um reges Kommentieren - selbstredend mit Lob aber auch Kritik und Verbesserungsvorschlägen. Frau lernt ja schließlich nie aus! :)
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Eure Ramirez

Donnerstag, 26. Mai 2011

Long time project

Have been away for a while, working on a few projects. One of them - the biggest I have made so far - had to be finished now. So I did.

I have to say that I really am proud of it... Well, have a look...

(Sorry, the pictures are very small. Took a picture of every page and pulled the tags out. It is a zigzag-foldet multipocket book so you can turn the back cover around and keep on turning pages back to the front cover. Hope you can see it - it is 6 pixs in the first collage and 7 in the second one.)

>>Edit says: Just found out that I can actually choose the size of the picture upload - well, some things just take a bit longer... *whistling*

I used lots of paper by bo bunnys and simple A5 envelopes for the book plus press-carton for the cover. Found the "how-to" on UTube and had to try it.

Also tried those two-sided-pull-tags (which do not work too well, I have to say, I might have made the inside too tight) and did lots and lots of distressing watercolour-style with the mini-mister. Exept for the square one all the big tags are simply bought, the small ones are partly from a set, partly selfmade. Since I do not have a line-stamp I made the lines on the tags using the edge of a small acrylic block. Simply tapped the long edge into distress ink and then partly used a ruler to get them straight along the tag.

Masterpieces are the numbers and letters on the front cover, where I sprinkled normal salt into the still hot embossing "powder" on the cardboard pieces, then let it dry and rubbed the salt off again. Distressed it afterwards - and that's what it looks like. Awesome!