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Create a Book Niche by TerriJournal Tutorial by Linda Cameron This tutorial will give you ideas and a step by step guide for making beautiful journal covers. This tutorial is thanks to the talented Linda Cameron on our Design Team. Any style journal or book can be used.  Use a glazing medium to attach your images to the cover, glaze both behind and over top of the image. The image used here is the Altered Pages collage 1837 Gypsy Soul.
Cover the outside of the journal covers with gesso, if shiny, sand a bit to gain 'grip'.
Use any sort of stencil, doily, or other item with color mist to create an interesting pattern. This can also be accomplished by using acrylic paint and either lightly painting/spouncing over the stencil or use the splatter brush technique. Open the book so that you can place the stencil over both front and back at the same time. 
This shows what the book looks like when opened, front and back carry the stenciled object across the journal. Use a credit card to smooth your image into place on the front cover. 
You can hand print swirls, lines, etc. or use small stamps of your choice to create interest. Outlining the primary image is good to provide that POP we like to see. It defines the image. It is always a nice touch to color the edges of your covers with either a stamp pad edge or something like a Krylon gold pen.  After stamping and using a sealer to provide a lasting finish for the images, you may attach embellishments that you like. Great items include ribbons, keys, gems and whatever strikes your fancy! Any 'mistake' can be made to appear as intended by covering with a stamp or embellishment! Beeswax Tutorial Afraid of beeswax? Linda makes it easy to follow her tutorial. Thanks to Linda Cameron
When heating Beeswax - BE CAREFUL. I poured a small amount of beeswax into a tray (use a tray or you won’t be able to use your Melting Pot for anything else-or you can put the beeswax into a tuna tin as your tray). You can use any kind of pure beeswax for this. I used a cardboard coaster as my base (white side) , and using my melted beeswax and a natural bristle brush that I have dedicated (important) to beeswax (you’ll never get the wax out of it) I brushed the wax onto the coaster, and placed a pre-cut circle of scrapbooking paper over top, then brushed more wax on top of it Using a “wax iron”, gently iron over top until the wax is smooth. Cut out the image you want to use and just place the image on top of the project and paint with wax, smooth with iron.Repeat with all images until done. You can also embed things such as buttons, charms, textures, etc., just use enough wax to hold the items 
The project was edged with copper Perfect Pearls, just rub desired color on the edges or all over the project, it will glisten and show the texture of the beeswax. Note that buttons were added to this piece, add any embellishments to which you can apply wax. The images used above are from AP 1123 A One and a Two, people category Please install Flash® and turn on Javascript. |
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Circus Matchbox Tutorial by Tristan
This tutorial is soooo easy to follow and so few supplies are needed!
A large size matchbox or order one of the board boxes at AP, Graphic 45 "Le Cirque" cardstock pad, some German scrap (available here at Altered Pages), glue or Xyron (I use Xyron, but the choice is yours), gold glitter, scrap of chipboard. That's it!
1. Take your chipboard scrap (I used a piece of cereal box), and cut 1/2" taller than your matchbox and 1" wider than your matchbox.
2. Draw an outline of where your matchbox will sit on the cardstock and apply a thin layer of glue to that area3. Sprinkle generously with gold glitter
4. Cut a piece of the Le Cirque cardstock large enough to wrap around the matchbox sliding cover. It will help to get a good tight fit if you use a bone folder (availalable at Alteredpages.com) to crease the corners.
5. Glue or Xyron the cardstock to matchbox cover. Glue matchbox cover to the glitter-covered cardstock. (UHU glue at Alteredpages.com)
6. Add German scrap to front of matchbox cover and the edges of the cardstock backing.
7. Using the border strips page in the Le Cirque cardstock pad, make a paper fan and edge the top with the gold glitter. Glue to top of match box. I added a feather, but it's not necessary.
8. Using the Le Cirque scroll image, glue to bottom of paper fan. Cut a circle from your favorite image in the Le Cirque pad, back it with a 1/2" larger circle cut from another pattern and apply with pop dots (or just glue to matchbox cover). If desired, use Stickles to circle the image.
9. Cut paper to fit inside of matchbox bottom. Using a bone folder to crease corners will give you a tighter fit!
10. Use two different borders and apply to bottom and lower edge of back of matchbox.
11. Cut various images from circus scene sheets (I like using different scale images for a funkier look).
12. Cut small pieces of toothpicks or very small dowels and apply to back of images. These will give the images a good "resting" spot to glue into matchbox. Also, you can glue to back "wall" of matchbox to add depth to your circus scene!
Envelope Pockets Technique
TIP: Pick up colored envelopes at the after holidays sales of red or green, black, etc. If you only have white, you can cover with decorative papers (see last step)
Cut 1/8 inch off each of the short sides of the envelope to create the pockets you will use in your album or journal pages. This works really well in a 7 X 5 album (see our board books category www.alterdpages.com)
Measure 3 ½ inches from one end and fold at that line. You now have two pockets of different sizes with openings on each end of the envelope. You can paint, stamp or otherwise cover the plain envelope if you choose.
Create a template which you will use to create the pocket flaps from decorative papers of your choice.
The template will be 4 X 5 inches, proceed to cut your decorative papers using the template.
After cutting the decorative paper to 4 X 5 inches , create a fold at 1 ½ inches from the top of the 5 inch border of decorative paper. Use your creasing/folding tool to create a smooth crease.
When you are sure of your papers and design, simply dab a bit of glue or use double side tape to insert and anchor the flap into the short end of the envelope. MAKE SURE to glue or tape on the back side so you can open the flap and insert pictures or treasures inside the pocket you created. If you leave the envelope plain, you can then embellish it with collage images, photos, inks or ????
You can cover your envelopes with decorative papers if you cannot find colored envelopes.