C127 Take a Moment
A Fairy Garden
Created by Bernadette Siena
South Africa
For This Project You Will Need:
· * FabScraps C127
Take a Moment Paper (PP) 001, 002. 003, 004, 010, 011, 012 (depending on the
size of your book, you might need more paper to decorate);
· * FabScraps Metal
Charms and Brads(the brads that has the ring to allow you to hang charms from);
· * FabScraps Flat
Back Pearls and Diamante;
· * Old Hardcover
Book;
· * Tiny Fairy
figurine;
· * Resin Frame;
· * Gold/Bronze/Silver
paint;
· * Basic tools –
Trimmer, fussy cut scissors, hole punch;
· * Embellishments: ribbon,
twine, flowers (I made mine from the Fabscraps Pattern Paper and tiny flowers punched
from the off-cuts from the fussy cutting sheets), matching bulldog clips (can
be upcycled as well to match);
· * Adhesive:
FabScraps Glue, Hot Glue gun, Mod Podge; and
· * Mixed media
stones, glitter, glass domes.
· * Photos:
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This book is
designed to hold as many photos as desired.
I used Page 011 and 012 sentiment cards and tags to adhere photos at the
back. I used mine for my fairy garden
photos, but you can change the theme, like just garden, or home improvements or
just family memories.
Instructions:
1. - Measure the cover
of the book. Cut page 002 the same Hight as the book. Cover the spine and back of the book with a
generous amount of Mod Podge. Start
adhering page 2 from the spine, smoothing it out to cover the back of the
book. I made sure the metal charm image
is in the centre of the spine. Cover the
remaining paper at the end of the back of the book with Mod Podge and fold in
to the inside of the back cover.
2. - Cut paper 004 to
the size of the front cover (from the right side of the paper to show the
boots). I cut it a bit wider, so that
the rain boots are snug in the right-hand corner, and a little bit of the paper
folds over to the inside cover. Smooth out to make sure there are no air
bubbles. This can be done using your
fingers, a rule or a squeegee type tool.
3. - Choose papers
that you want for the inside covers, cut to size and glue to the inside of the
front and back covers.
4. - Punch a hole in
the spine and adhere the brad, chain.
5. - It is advisable
to decorate your outside page at this stage:
6. - Glue the fairy
inside the resin frame. Adhere your
flowers on the front cover as in the pictures or as desired, leaving an opening
to adhere the frame top and bottom to the flowers. Because the fairy is a bit bulky, you will
need some hight for the frame to adhere to.
Decorate as desired with mixed media products.
7. - Book folding:
a.
Start in the
middle of the book:
b.
Page 1: fold the
page lengthwise in half, so the outer edge is folded in towards the spine. Now fold the top outer corner, where it is
folded, in towards the spine to create a triangle.
c.
Page 2: fold the
bottom corner in towards the spine, to create a triangle, then fold the top
corner in towards the spine to create another triangle at the top. The page should now have a triangular shape
pointing outwards
d.
Repeat this
pattern to the right and the left from the middle of the book, until you have
folded enough pages to form a little fairy house.
e.
To make the door
and window, cut some frames from the doors from the fussy cut page 010 – add an
additional ½ inch extra to the left side to fold and adhere to the inside of
one of the folded pages so that the pages can still move, and the door and
windows are not preventing the book folding pages to be restricted.
8. - Once you have
enough pages folded to form a nice shaped fairy house, you can decorate the
inside pages on either side of the fairy house with papers 001 and 003 – or any
of the other papers if you so whish.
9. - Using your
fingers (as this works much better than a brush), rub some of the
gold/silver/bronze paint around the edges of the book cover and your decorated
inner pages. Press the pages together
and rub paint on the outside of the pages – very lightly, as you don’t want a
lot of paint seeping into the pages, as that will cause them to stick together.
1 You can now
create as many tags as you want, to insert between the folded pages – if pushed
in deep, it will stay in place and will not fall out. I created several tags and matts, punched
holes in the centre top and re-enforced the holes with hole re-enforcements
punched from the off-cuts and added ribbons and twine.
11.
You can also
decorate random unfolded pages, even do some art journaling pages with some of
your photos. The possibilities are
endless. I also created a pocket on the
inside of the back cover to hold photos that must be placed on tags – and
ready-made tags as my fairy garden expand, and I want to add more photos. That
way, you can use up most of your paper and not have to go search for matching
paper every time you want to add photos. Mostly, have fun with this project.
