* AALL & Create: Hot Air Ballon & Galleon Sailing Ship Mini Journal

Hello!

This week for my AALL & Create guest spot, I made a mini journal. The focal images are from the beautiful #319 Magnify It stamp set by Bipasha.

The hot air balloon is the front cover and the galleon sailing ship is on the back cover:

I used quite a few stamps to create the cover backgrounds and the inside pages. I have a photo step by step tutorial:

1. Paperartsy Fresco paints in Mermaid and Inky Pool were applied to white card with a brush and baby wipes. Texture paste was added through part of the #92 Swallowtail stencil.

2. White Fresco paint was added with a baby wipe to lighten up the background a little.

3. The focal image was stamped and Stamp # 336 Bold Alphas was stamped around the edges in Versafine Clair Warm Breeze.

4. The sentiment from the hot air balloon stamp was heat embossed in black and splodges from stamp #362 Splodge were heat embossed in white.

5. Several more hot air balloons were stamped.

6. The balloon parts were fussy cut ready to be glued in place and layered.

7. The #262 Mesh stamp was heat embossed in gold around the edges of the cover.

8. The balloon parts were assembled and some added to foam tape to give dimension.

9. The binoculars were fussy cut twice and glued together. Gold wax was applied to the stencilled texture paste sun and a piece of the #14 Cell die was used to frame the bottom left corner. 

10. The back cover was made in the same way as the front but this time using the galleon sailing ship.

11. The inside of the book is made from painted and stamped white card. Stamps used were # 364 Intersecting Circles, # 262 Mesh and #338 Background Noise.

12. Sentiments were added to each page using Tracy's stamp sets #164 Flourish, #199 Ecclectic Stems,  #213 Flourishing Vase and Olga's #273 Unfurling Petals.

The book was then assembled with each page having tuck spots, flaps or tags. The front and back covers were made from kraft card with the image panels glued on top. Ribbon was used as a closure.

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Here is the front cover in close up. Can you see the balloon is dimensional, made up of layers that have foam tape to help shape them? I was pleased with the Swallowtail stencilled sun detail.

Here is the back cover. The ship and sails are dimensional too, the sails are billowing in the wind. I added some Tim Holtz stars which I heat embossed with gold powder.

 The inside of the journal is made of painted pages with stamping around the edges and lovely, inspiring sentiments.

Stamps Used:

#164 Flourish
#199 Eclectic Stems
#213 Flourishing Vase
#262 Mesh
#273 Unfurling Petals
#319 Magnify It

#336 Bold Alphas

#338 Background Noise

#362 Splodge

#364Intersecting Circles

Stencil: 
#92 Swallowtail
Die:
#14 Cells

  

To see the stamps, stencils and dies used, please visit 
AALL & Create Boutique.

You'll find lots of inspiration on the 
AALL & Create Facebook Page  and on Instagram

That's all for now.

Thanks for stopping by today.

xoxo

I'd like to play along in these challenges:

* QKR Stampede #406 AG 14/09
* A Bit More Time to Craft #123 AG 14/09

* Time Out Challenges #170 Adventurous 23/09
* A Perfect Time to Craft AG Sept 27/09
* Classic Design Challenge AG Sept 27/09
Art Journal Journey Texture 30/10
* CCC Digi Creations #118 Monochrome 30/09
613 Avenue Create Sept AG 01/10
* Ikes World Challenge Under the Weather 03/10 TOP 3

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