acrylic album.

ok. so my project went up on the fiskateers blog today, so now i can post it here. :]

may gave me this bag with some products and a few rules: i couldn’t use any patterned paper, i had to use a bit of everything she gave me, and i had to use the craft knife somehow. for sooo long now i've been wanting to make an acrylic album, but i was having trouble finding some place that would cut the acrylic for me. home depot wouldn't do it, so james said he would cut it for me since he has the tools. well i decided to check with lowes, and they cut it for me. so yeah. i was so happy. anyway. since i've been struggling a bit with my motivation to scrap, i just decided to make my project with the acrylic album since i was pretty excited about it. i just printed a bunch of my favorite photos in black and white and here's what i came up with:

i used the craft knife to cut out the little flowers. i ended up making a nice slice in my finger. twice. the craft knife is not my friend, and really not something i plan to use too much more. i think my micro tip scissors work perfectly for jobs where i need precision. i also used a ton of hambly journaling bits for this project. one on each page. :] and then there was my little sewing project, which caused my trip to the fabric store where i found the loveliness for my next sewing project. you can sort of see the little cover in the first photo. it's just a simple pink fleece pouch with some fabric circles and a pom pom in the middle for the bottom corner. then i added a little button to close it. super fun, and like i said, it took me maybe 20 minutes to make it with a needle and some embroidery floss. it probably won't last forever, but that's ok with me.

so yeah. today at work, i talked to silvia bit more about teaching a class. she said she really liked the style of my album, and likes the idea of offering an acrylic album class, so she's going to look for some acrylic albums when she goes to cha next weekend because she's pretty sure a company is going to debut an acrylic album. i'm really thinking it would be pretty fun to teach a class. so we'll see. :]