Distrezzed Beach Bum Album

Spring break is here for many and here in Florida, that means a trip to the beach.  For many others around the states, that means a trip to the Florida beaches!  Where are you spending Spring Break?

I discovered the perfect paper for this album at CHA this Winter.  The paper is the Surf and Swim collection from a new company called Trinity.  They have some gorgeous papers and I love the weight of the paper as well.  The paper was perfect to distrezz with my Distrezz-It-All.  Of course, the addition of a little burlap from Canvas Corp and some Glimmer goodness from Tattered Angels added to the shabby beach flavor throughout the album.  I used many Helmar products to put the entire album together.  I used Zutter 8x8 chipboard for my front and back cover and bound the whole album using my Bind-it-All.    The paper was glued to the covers with Helmar Acid Free glue.  This is the best glue for covering albums with paper as my paper never warps or wrinkles with this glue.  I have the big bottle because I use this so much.  

The burlap and alpha on the burlap are glued down using Helmar 450 Quick Dry adhesive and the shells were all cut out and glued using Helmar Scrap Dots for dimension. 

It only gets better as I turn the pages.

 

I have to admit I had some great friends, Jackie and Susan, come over Saturday and we scrapped together and all had touches on this album.  Jackie and Susan helped do a lot of fussy cutting.  Isn’t this wagon adorable with the windows cut out?  

Some flowers were cut out and rolled and glued with Helmar Zap Dots to create that stunning dimensional flower.   I used Helmar Gemstone glue to add the brown glass beads to the center.  The Helmar Gemstone glue was perfect because it dries clear.

Little 4 x6 page protector by Zutter.

I just want to jump into that water paper!  All the paper layers and flip flops were glued with Helmar Acid Free Glue again. 

More layers of distrezzed paper and paper elements that were cut from the paper line and glued down with Helmar Acid Free glue and a little bit of Helmar Scrap Dots. 

I love these little tiki heads.  I cut these out and popped them up with Helmar Scrap Dots.  

Added a little Core-dinations cardstock and did a little more fussy cutting.  Everything was glued down with Helmar Acid Free Glue except for the bottom flower.  This flower was adhered with one round Helmar ZapDot.  I only put one towards the bottom so that a picture could easily be slid in behind the flower and under the edge of the border flowers.

My daughter has plans to go to the beach, so I made this for her to add pictures to and give her something to look back on.  I can’t wait to see what pictures she will take with this album in mind.  I’m not even really a beach person, but this paper and album made me want to go to the beach.  Ok, I really just want to fill the margarita glass that I used as a prop in the background, but I can drink that on the beach, right?

Once again, I love all my Helmar products.  I love that I have a variety of adhesives that I can use for different purposes and to achieve different effects all in one project.   Do you find yourself reaching for more than one adhesive now to finish one project?

So celebrate with me today since it’s my birthday and take some time to enjoy the warmer season and join me for a margarita or just sit and soak in a little sunshine.

Teaching Roadtrip Coming Up

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I told you I had a few more things to share, so here goes my big news! 

For the last year, my friend Katie and I have been planning to attend a retreat in New Hampshire at Purity Springs.  Katie has been going for a few years, but I have been on the waitlist.  Last year, I finally got on the list to attend this year’s Spring retreat.  After a little consideration, I decided to turn this into my first teaching roadtrip from Florida to Maine.  Above are samples of a few other classes I will be teaching.

If you live on the Eastern seaboard, look to see if I’m coming to a store near you.  Keep checking back, because hopefully I’ll be able to add a few more to the list, especially for my trip home.  I am so excited about meeting people in person that I’ve only had the chance to chat with online. 

As of now, I will be at the following stores:

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April 3 – Angela’s Happy Stamper, Reston, VA

April 6 - Scrappers Cove, Milltown, NJ

April 11-15 - Purity Springs Resort Scrapbook Retreat, NH

April 18 - Silver Fox Stamps and More - Winslow, ME

April 20-21 - Wholly Scrap, NH

Do you live near one of these?   Am I stopping at your local scrapbook store?  If you are anywhere near these stores, come and join us!  Don’t forget to like my Cheryl's Window Facebook page so you can keep in touch with my travels.

Basically Bare News for You

Oh, I’ve neglected my blog again and I have so much to share with you.  Maybe I should just break it down in bits and make a few posts?!

You’ve seen me use products by Basically Bare in the past.  I love their mixed media albums and their mixed media embellishments.   They work so absolutely perfect with Tattered Angels that they are one of the Color Connections with Tattered Angels.   I can proudly say that I am now an endorsed educator with Basically Bare and look forward to using their products in my workshops.  Speaking of, here is just one of my upcoming workshops I’ll be teaching (maybe near you).   This is the perfect album for any relationship; friend, spouse, mother, son, etc.   It is pocket album full of fun techniques using Tattered Angels, Basically Bare, Ranger Distress inks, and Authentique.  I’ll even show you how to recycle old denim jeans.  Would that make this a green blue album?  heehee 

You can see my sidebar of where I’ll be next.  And you can contact me by clicking on my About Me page if you’d like me to come teach in your area. 

Thanks for stopping by,

Leap on over to Tattered TV tonight

 

Tonight, Wednesday, 2/29/2012, is my first appearance on Tattered TV.   I’d love for you to join me at 9:00 EST/6:00 PST as I create this beautiful BasicGrey Sampler Canvas.   This is an amazingly quick and easy project; I decided to make my first UStream appearance as easy as I could because you know I’m going to be nervous.   It’s still a fun project that would make a great wall hanging or a wonderful gift for a friend.  I love the bright happy rainbow of colors on this one, but you could really make this unique.   So, I hope you’ll stay up and join me tonight and give a little moral support!  Make sure you give a shout out so I know who you are!  

You can click on the Tattered TV link to go straight there.  Make sure you sign in with a Ustream user name if you want to participate with the chat.   If you can’t make it, don’t worry, it will also be recorded so you can come back and watch it later. 

See you tonight. 

It’s the little things…

That make life Big - even my love for glues (and not sniffing them) and various forms of art!

I have a new passion for what is referred to as assemblage art; I love taking bits and pieces of things and creating a work of art out of it.  This was a project I made for Tattered Angels Winter 2012 catalog featuring the Plain Jane collection and I’m just getting around to sharing it here.   I used Wendy Vecchi Art Parts as well as some grungepaper and various other elements.

I think my favorite elements of this design were the Basically Bare Elements.  The nest was made with canvas leaves from their Blossoms and Leaves package layered and sewn randomly together.  I left the string ends loose to give to the nest appearance.   The bird was fun because it is a Basically Bare felt bird that was embossed with embossing folders and then misted. 

Now the best part of this art is the assemblage part of it.   All of the pieces were assembled using Helmar Acid Free Glue and Helmar Gemstone Glue.  Since art parts are similar to a form of compressed papers, I find that the Helmar Acid Free Glue makes a wonderfully strong adhesive, especially since it has been designed specifically for book binding.   Even the back of the bottle reads, “Featuring excellent adhesion to dense papers and highly flexible bond.  Sets clear, dries quickly, and will not yellow with age.”   Doesn’t it sound like just the perfect glue for these art parts?   I used the Helmar Gemstone Glue to glue the flower center and to adhere the little metal parts in the nest so that I could guarantee these would not move and fall out.   I love that Helmar Gemstone Glue also dries clear.   I even used it to glue the belly of my birdie in his nest; don’t want my bird to fall out of the nest. 

I will proudly say that I love my Helmar adhesives.  I appreciate that they have a variety of adhesives to work with whatever medium I am currently working with, especially since I like to create all sorts of art and mixed media.  Is there a Helmar adhesive that you haven’t tried yet or are not sure how best to use it?