My little Studio arts, paints and colors by Chela

My Boy’s album

By Graciela Rohlik

For those curious people who wonder like me all the time. I decide to show you the look of the paper I use before I finished my work. So here are the pictures for you to see how I transformed and blended papers to make it belong together and work for my design.

Materials

9 pages of different collections

4 pages of card stock

Mini book from My Little Yellow Bicycle

Distress ink colors Vintage Photo, Walnut Stain, and Forrest Moss.

Adindondack black ink.

Smooth Spritz in Log Cabin and Spun Sugar

Glimmer Mist (Tattered Angel) color mustard seed

Claudine Hellmut Studio multi-medium matte

Brown acrylic dabber paint

A brush or two

A few stamps from Tim Holtz

A background stamp, linen etc

A brayer

Empty Spray bottle

A Craft iron

Little sponges

A Crop-A-Dile

3 die Cut from Tim Holtz

I embossing folder

Xcto- knife

Big Shoot

Making your own distress “unique paper”

1.Start making the paper for part of the album Pages 6 and 7

First, spray glue on the cardstock and continue to another page to give it time to dry.

2. Them spray Glimmer (Tattered angels color mustard seed) and dry with heat gun.

3. Pour a little Claudine Hellmut Studio multi-medium matte on a craft sheet and mixed with brown acrylic paint using your brayer them roll this mix on top of a stamp and stamp on the paper. Dry with heat gum.

4. Let it dry. Ink it with a sponge in two-distress ink colors Vintage photo and Walnut stain.

Glue the page of “ paper Toujours” to card stock to make stronger to make pockets later for page 8-9.

Color with a black marker all the words of the page (Suspicious Activity, Caught in the act, Rule breaker, GUILTY, twice) that are needed for titles and ink with Distress ink colors Vintage photo and Walnut stain.

Let’s spray smooch and glimmer mist on the pages that are needed for the rest of the book so they start drying.

Pages above are I didn’t do it GUILTY page 8-9

Making your embellishment and grungeboard attachments

Cut and emboss the grungeboard them ink with Walnut Stain and apply Claudine Hellmut Studio multi-medium matte, let it dry.

Paint chipboard and let it sit to dry. Cut according to the pictures with die the cuts and glue it to the top page and back page.

The disaster Area Page 1

Spray the disaster area paper with glimmers mist Glimmer Mist (Tattered angels color mustard seed). Dry with heat gun. Trace the paper and glue it to the chipboard. Them, retouch with Acrylic paint Dabber in black on the edges.

After it’s glue, ink with black ink on the edges to give it a distress look.

Cut chipboard with the Tim Holtz die cut and paint it with a black paint dabber. Glue it to the right and left edge of the page. Punch holes and put the eyelets with the crop-a dile. Decorate with chipboard and precut clock paper pieces and spinners.

Suspicious Activity Page 2

Trace the paper and glue it to the chipboard. Them, retouch with Acrylic paint Dabber in black on the edges. Later, Tear up “Suspicious Activity” from the paper and color with a black marker and ink it with a sponge in two-distress ink colors Vintage photo and Walnut stain. For the final touch glue it on top of the page and glossy accent the words.

Cut chipboard with the Tim Holtz die cut and paint it with a black paint dabber. Glue it to the right edge of the page. Punch hole with the crop-a dile.

Record of family Code enforcement page 3

Cut the paper by the journaling notes lines and glue the paper to the chipboard and proceed to add Acrylic paint Dabber in brown on the edges and dry. Once dry, ink it with a sponge in two distress ink colors Vintage photo and Walnut stain. Paint with a black marker over "Rule breaker" tear the edges of the paper, ink the edge with Vintage Photo, glue it to the page and add glossy accent. Punch hole with the crop-a dile.

Here, you can see how the page look all finished!! I place the picture s on a piece of chipboard , them I glue the chipboard to the page with 3d dots!! why? because it allows me to play with dimension on the page and it looks better.

For the other side “Caught in the act” page 4

Trace the page in the piece of cardstock spray with Smooth Spritz in Log Cabin and Spun Sugar and proceed to dry with heat gun. Once dry glue the paper to the chipboard and proceed to ink with a sponge in two-distress ink colors Vintage photo and Walnut stain. Punch hole with the crop-a dile.

It wasn't me. Page 5

Spray Glimmer Mist (Tattered Angel) on the page called it wasn’t color mustard seed, dry, and me. Then Spray Smooth Spritz in Log Cabin and Spun Sugar and dry a little and put aside to dry.

To make the pockets and tags

Distress with ink as you as you did the pages before. Then glue the edges of the paper only with a Scor-pal tape or red tape. Punch holes with the crop-a dile.

The other side of it wasn't me or BUSTED page 6-7

Brush Claudine Hellmut Studio multi-medium matte on the words BUSTED and dry it.

Pick the paper that you made. Trace the paper to fit two pages of chipboard. Glue the paper to both chipboard pages. Ink the edges with brown dabber acrylic paint.

Tear the edge of the word BUSTED, ink with black ink, and walnut stain distress ink.

Cut pocket out of the paper you made and clip the corners and glue the pockets to the page. Punch holes with the crop-a dile.

The I didn’t do it GUILTY page 8-9

Use the other half of the page of the” It wasn’t me page” and cut it in half and glue it to the outside edges of both chipboard pages. Color the top of the chipboard in black with paint dabber. Glue the paper with the letter that was prepare before to cardboard and Die cut the paper with Tim Holtz die cut. Make pockets by gluing with score pal tape on top and bottom borders of the page to make pockets.

Here, you can see how the pages look all finished!!

Reach for the stars page 10-11

Grab the hip-hop page that was previously prepared with tattered angels, smooch paint and glue it to chipboard. Tear part of the unique paper previously made and ink to distress edges. Glue the edges with score pal tape to create pockets. Tear Reach for the stars, ink with Forrest moss, and glue it to the pockets. Punch holes with the crop-a dile. Finnish with Glossy accents the letters.

Here, you can see how the pages look all finished!!

Here, you can see how the pages look all finished!!

Here, you can see how the pages look all finished!!

Page 12 Back of the book

Glue the other half of the page called “disaster Area” to the back of the last page of the book. Attach the Grunge board to the book. Punch holes with Crop-A-Dile and attach eyelets add a little glossy accent to the edge of the grunge board.