* AALL & Create: Smile Minibook

Hello

For my GDT post for AALL & Create this week, I made a mini book incorporating some of the things that make me smile. I have had a really tough week and a half and so in my little book, I acknowledge that we have our sad days, but that the memory of these days fade with time.

Here is the front cover featuring Caterday:

And this is the back cover with The Gardener:

Lil Love and Coffee Time make the first inside pages:

And Choose Happy and Curly Girl take up the second inside pages:

The background was made by heat embossing 4 x 4 inch card with the two sets of hexagon stamps. I then smooshed the card through puddles of Distress Oxide with water.

Next I added some tone on tone stamping to each piece of card using the Versafine Verdant ink.Black stamping using the same hexagon stamps was added around the edges of each card.

To finish the backgrounds, I added white paint splatters with a fan brush and inked along the edges in black with a blending brush. I did end up adding more black stamping to the edges for better definition.

The images were coloured using Copic markers. Each was fussy cut and grounded on a piece of #6 Crafty Washi tape with bold inspirational words in white on black. The sentiments from each set were stamped and cut into strips and I also added words from Heart Grunge, Happy Dog and Hexagonal Tiles.

Stamps Used (In numeric order):

#208 Hexagonal Tiles

#374 Reverse Hexagons

#383 Scripted Hexagons

#17 Coffee Time

#424 The Gardener

#453 Heat Grunge

#477 Saturday

#478 Choose Happy

#480 Curly Girl

#481 Lil Love

#483 Happy Dog

#Washi #6 

To see the stamps, stencils, dies and washi tapes used, please visit

AALL & Create Boutique. 

A list of stockists can be found here.

You'll find lots of inspiration on the 

AALL & Create Facebook Page, the AALL & Create Fanatics Facebook Page and on Instagram

This is me and Casey - a personalised digital stamp from Janet Klein. 

Order yours here.

That's all for now.

Thanks for stopping by today.

xoxo

I'd like to play along in these challenges:

* Crafty Catz #556 AG 24/06

* Creative Fingers #210 AG 24/06

* Angies Digital Stamps #53 AG 26.06

* A Perfect Time to Craft 27/06

* Classic Design Challenge #6 AG 27/06

* Aud Sentiments #277 AG With Sentiments 28/06

* Crafters Castle #42 AG 30/06 

* Corrosive Challenge June AG 30/06 

* Through the Purple Haze #181 AG 01/07

613 Avenue Create #6 AG 02/07 TOP ROCKER