A Prima Songbird Mini Album

As some of you know from a previous blog post, my older daughter [DramaQueen] finished Grade 9 and is moving on to high school.  

At the end of June, we celebrated at her school with a special Farewell party...which almost seemed to morph into a Prom event! yikes!

After saying NO to a spray tan [among other beautification requests], I gave in and bought DQ a lovely new dress, high heels, a wrap and a clutch.  

To commemorate the event [aside from paying credit card bills] I made DQ a Prima mini album, which I taught as a class at The Urban Scrapbook last month.

These album covers are originally a plain white canvas with a white resist script that stands out when you colour the canvas. 

 I sprayed the canvas album covers front, back and inside with 3 Lindy's Stamp Gang mists:  Tainted Teal, Wild Honeysuckle Coral and Cactus Gold.  Then I inked the edges with some Vintage Photo Distress Ink and misted with water so it would bleed a little away from the edges.

TIP:  A little spray and a little ink goes a LONG way.  Start with small amounts and add more if you prefer darker shades.

The flowers are also sprayed with Lindy's.

Prima crystals & pearls flourish, I am Roses flowers and leaf, die cut bird and window and cheesecloth.

The bird is from a Donna Salazar Spellbinders die, cut from patterned paper and covered with Clear Rock Candy Crackle Distress paint.  Then I inked it with Vintage Photo Distress Ink.

The window is cut using a Poppystamps die "Grand Madison Window", and I cut it out from the Prima album packaging instead of chipboard.  It's dry brushed with a little gesso and inked lightly with brown chalk ink.

I used these beautiful Prima papers for the album pages inside...

Songbird "Collage"

Sunrise

Zephyr

Mosaic

Lineage

Tag-It

Here are the inside pages...

Page 1

The pull-out photo (and another pic on the back)

Pages 2 and 3

Page 2 has a little flip book with more photos...

Pages 4 and 5

I made these feathers...I'll show you how at the end of this post

I will add my private journaling offline :)

Pages 6 and 7

A little lacing adds an elegant touch...

Page 8

I plan on adding a vellum envelope to the back inside cover (thanks to Pat's suggestion) and include the rest of the photos from that day.

Here is a quick tutorial on how I made the feathers...

Supplies:  Tim Holtz Tissue Wrap, Scissors, Brown ink, Glue n Seal

Fold your strip of tissue wrap to create 3 layers

Adhere the folded sections together

Cut out your feather shape

Starting at top of feather, snip inwards towards centre at 45 degree angles.

TIP:  Try to snip as narrowly as possible, without cutting off the feathery fringes.

Ink edges with Brown chalk ink or Distress Ink.

Here is the finished feather!

Whew...that was a loooong blog post!  Thanks for dropping by :)