This week, the October Afternoon blog has featured a variety of approaches to the holiday mini-album cover. I have found myself so very inspired by all that the team has been sharing, and I love how each designer's style has translated to her album cover. My own cover reflects the holly jolly mood that I have found myself in ever since I had my first look at the Very Merry December kit.
I used the "Joy" stamps from the add-on kit:
I placed both stamps on an adhesive block, one just above the other, and stamped one row across the cover using watermark ink. I then sprinkled embossing powder over the stamped sentiments, gently shook it off into an open catalog (yay for holiday mail!), and then applied heat using a heat gun/heating tool. I then returned the excess powder to the bottle by tilting the catalog so that the powder that had collected in the crease of the catalog could be returned wtihout much of a mess.
I repeated this technique with various colors of embossing powder -- white, copper, and teal.
Be sure to stop by this week to see what the team has been doing to prep some of the inner pages of the album in anticipation of the holidays ahead!
-- Jill