Acetate/Acrylic Summer Mini Album ~ Stuck On U Sketches and Creative Cuts and More Summer Mini Album Blog Hop

I wanted to show you the 3-D effect here!  Look at those water droplets, they look like they are floating!!

Happy Friday everyone!!!!  Welcome and thank you all for stopping by today.. 

We have a Summer Mini Album Blog Hop going on over at Stuck On U Sketches sponsored by Creative Cuts & More ...  and we are going to have so much fun!!   I hope you can pick up a few good ideas on how to scrap some of those wonderful photos you've taken this summer..  Each of the Design Team Members from Stuck On U Sketches and Die Cut Divas (which is the official blog for our sponsor, Creative Cuts & More) have put together some amazing Summer Mini Albums for this hop..  I also want to mention that Creative Cuts & More has so graciously provided each of us some goodies of our choice for this hop!!

  A BIG THANK YOU to Creative Cuts &More owner Terry!!!!

 I also want to show you the prize Creative Cuts & More is giving away to one lucky person who followers all of the rules and completes the hop before Midnight, July 31, 2011 Eastern Time...
Here's the prize!

The 8" x 8" Sea Life Mini Album Kit

Wow, look at all of the possibilities here!!!!

Okay, lets get started...  

You should have "hopped" over here from Die Cut Diva's Design Team Member Dawn Lotharius..

 

If you didn't, you may want to head on over to SOUS (StuckOnUSketches) to be sure to start from the top!!  You won't want to miss any of the albums we created today.  Today's hop is all about SUMMER and Creative Cuts and More has a lot of albums perfect for all of your summer activities... so be sure and check that out after you finish the hop!!!

Now, for my Summer Mini Album, I decided I wanted to make an acetate/acrylic album... I've never done one, but have wanted to try one for a while now...  So I chose the 6" x 6" Album Pages in Acetate  from Creative Cuts & More.  

I know there are a lot of different ways to decorate an acrylic album, but I decided to stick with what I thought was a pretty basic technique...  I wanted a clean, 3-D effect..  First of all I painted the edges of my album with some bright acrylic paint.   Then I decorated the front cover, leaving most of it clear so you could see through the whole album... I also covered the very last page with Tim Holtz alcohol inks... Love the way this page turned out!!!  And now to fill the "in between" pages..  I had an idea of what I was going to do, just a matter of making it look good...   I concentrated on photos of my grand kids all taken on the same day while they were playing in the pool..  I found 3 that would work together nicely, and then proceeded to cut Zach and Colten out of their photos and layer each on a different acrylic page over the larger photo of Savannah...  After I got them where I wanted... I just start adding stickers, embellishments, ribbon.. anything you can think of until you get the look you like...  I attached the album together with album rings and tied lots of fiber and ribbon along with some charms.  I hope you enjoy it.....

Looking through all of the pages...

Front cover...

Inside of front cover...

2nd page...

3rd page...

4th page

Back side of 4th page...  Details about the photos..

Last page... I used alcohol inks on this one...

And again looking through the whole thing!!!

 I'm also giving a little prize!!  I wish I could give something to all of you, but I can't...  So one lucky winner will win this prize from me....

To win you will need to ..

1.  Let me know what you think of my Acetate/Acrylic Mini Album...

2.  Become a follower to my blog...

I will draw a winner August 1st ...  Good Luck Everyone!!!

Your next stop will be Kayla DuPont's Blog and don't forget to leave some love..

Thank you again for stopping by and taking a look at my mini album, I hope it has inspired you to want to make one of your own....  If you do, be sure and check out all the wonderful things Creative Cuts and More has to offer...everything from album covers/ pages , album rings,  killer red or white tacky tape, and embellishments..  Be sure and check it out!! 

And Creative Cuts and More is also offering a 20% discount this week. Just use discount code SOUS20 during check out to save 20% off your entire order!  So what are you waiting for!!

Happy shopping!!

Have a wonderful day!!!

Hugs!!!!