I made this KaiserCraft Album for my friends 40th Birthday.  I wanted something classic looking because for Val’s Birthday a group of 15 of us spent the day at Palazzo Versace and it turned out these were the colours used throughout the room we were in for her birthday.  I love these colours and patterns together.

I planned this album exactly how I wanted it on paper first because I had a very detailed picture in my head of how I wanted it to look.  Then when I came to gluing all of the pages onto the solid MDF parts of the Album I actually glued the page I wanted to show through behind the 40 part on the back of the page and not the front of it.  Please note if you are doing this album there is a right and left side of the album, the holes don’t actually line up upside down.  So instead of having a pretty background page I decided to just have a Bazzill background (I made it slightly smaller so you could still see some of the spotty paper) and that allowed me to have a whole other section of the Album to use for signatures and messages.  So it turned out ok after all.  I made all of the Bazzill page inserts the same size so the pages could be placed in the message section or the main album.

I used Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist on the KaiserCraft Wooden Flourish then added some KaiserCraft Pearls.  I also used Glimmer Mist on the KaiserCraft Chipboard letters, I painted the letters Antique White then placed the Flourish over the letters then sprayed.  This coloured the Flourish and the letters at the same time.  I just love Glimmer Mist, embellishmentsare so quick and easy withthis product.  It is my favourite product right now and I can’t wait to play withit some more to see what other things I can achieve with it.

The flower on the 40 are layered, with the bottom flower being a flower cut out of KaiserCraft Fozz Felt, the middle one is a paper flower and the top is another smaller flower cut out of FozzFelt with a pearl on top.  The flower beside Val’s name is a paper flower folded in half with a pearl attached. 

I didn’t want to do too much with the back of the 40 so I painted it Antique White it then occurred to me that it was rather boring so I used a sea sponge and combined the Raw Umber and Antique White paints on the sponge and dabbed it on which made an interesting effect.

Here is another effect you can achieve with the Glimmer Mist.  Here I just placed the KaiserCraft Wood Flourish onto a piece of Bazzill Cardstock and sprayed the Glimmer Mist.  I actually did this while adding a little more colour to the Flourish from the Album, so both times I sprayed it I made 2 accents with one lot of spraying.  Doing it at the same time saves the Glimmer Mist and saves time and it makes a great corner accent.  Notice the larger spots on the paper this is achieved by holding the spray closer to the paper.  If you just want a fine mist, hold it further away when spraying.

Enjoy,

Natasha