Acrylic Tag Book

Yesterday I worked on a little acrylic tag book for my Mom for Mother's Day. Since I knew I would be using numbers, I also took this opportunity to make another submission for the CuttleBug Challenges Numbers Challenge by Elle's Studios. You can click on the link to head over there and see more details about that.

These little tag books are great - they are the perfect size for wallet size or smaller pictures. Plus, they are quick to make, and they look beautiful! Here is the front cover:

For this first page, I used the Graphically Speaking cartridge for the 24/7, the heart, and "U" box. Incidentally, the Graphically Speaking cartridge is fantastic! It has some really unique images on it!

"Oma", which is what my kids call my Mom, comes from Opposites Attract. I embossed the background using Cuttlebug folder, and I slightly inked the raised areas and the edges of the paper. For the edges of the acrylic, I used a similar technique on all of the pages - I ink the edges with whatever kind of ink I have in the preferred color; then once that base ink was dry, I added clear embossing ink; then dipped the edges in Ultra Thick Embossing Enamel (UTEE). This creates a really cool effect on the edges. This effect also softens the edges literally! These little acrylic books have sharp edges, and by embossing with the UTEE is takes those sharp edges away while adding a nice color or just shiny effect. This is a closer picture of the embossed edges.


Here are the subsequent pages:

All of these little cuts came from Graphically Speaking - I used Design Studio on the pointed oval "doilie" under the pictures on the left (it started out as a circle doilie).

When I make these little acrylic books, I like to make sure that anything that shows through on both sides of the acrylic is pleasant on both sides. For instance, I typically don't have words that show through on the other side of any acrylic page because it will be backwards on the other side, and I don't care for that. But on the "D&K" page on the right, I put a scalloped border, and I put stickles in the little holes, and all of that will show on the back of the page too.

I also use double sided paper so that it looks nice on both sides of each acrylic sheet. On the family picture on the left, you can see the patterned paper and the scalloped edge showing through from the previous page. I cut the scalloped oval using Nestabilities.

I used the Soccer Solutions cartridge for the soccer cuts. On the right side, the little hearts came from All Mixed Up

I added some ribbon to the binder clip to finish off the project. I really like how this turned out! And I think Oma will love it!

Acrylic Tag Album

I finally found a use for all of the tiny pictures that come as part of packages when you have photos taken at JCPenney. I haven't had photos taked there in some time, but before the kids were in school, we had photos taken there a couple of times a year. At that time, A sheet included a strange combination of sizes - including some very tiny pictures for which I never found a good use.

Well this weekend, I purchased a small (3 x 4 1/2 inches) acrylic album, and I wasn't sure what to do with it. Then it occurred to me that I had piles of very tiny pictures that would be perfect. I also used some extra wallet sized pictures. The album turned out so well, that I ended up making two more as gifts.

The challenge was to make sure that whatever showed through looked nice from both sides. I am really happy with the results!