Hello everyone! Is everyone sick of winter yet? I am, so I
decided to make a non-winter project. I'll be using
products from
All about Me Alpha
All the Family Stamps: (bundle pre-colored option)
Today I'll be sharing this cute family folio
made with envelopes as the base! I had a lot of fun making
it…let me show you how!
I made my folio out of square cream envelopes. I found that to
minimize bulk, it was better to use thinner envelopes. The black I
show in these pictures gives an example of how they are put
together and the use of mini-slimline envelopes. You can make
these out of virtually any kind and size of envelope.
It is a matter of putting one flap inside of another. To start, the
2 envelopes are together by inserting the flap of one into another.
These first 2 form the front and back of the folio. To keep going you
only need to keep inserting one flap into another. I have limited
the ones I’ve made to five envelopes, although today’s project
is made with 4 envelopes. I found 5 to be the max. You could
put 3 folios of 5 envelopes together by attaching each one to the
next with liquid glue to make a really fat one.
This is the black folio all put together. There is a flap on the front,
but I found that after I had adhered paper to the front, the flap
really doesn’t show.
To start my project, I chose my paper pack. I needed a pack that
had papers that all coordinated with each other and that were fun.
I chose 5 colors of plain card stock that coordinated with the
paper pack I chose and cut 2 stripes of each color
that were ½” wide. I cut a square out of copy paper and adhered
the stripes to it. I was able to repeat the colors twice. I chose to use a
die from my stash that was a stitched square with scallop on the
inside. I would use the frame on the cover and the evacuated piece
on the back cover with a die cut heart in the center. This heart die also
had little hearts inside the main heart that I used on the cover. I also used
the square die to cut frames out of each color of card stock and 8 pcs of
cream card stock.
I really liked how the striped piece looked with the rest of the papers.
Before die cutting all of the cream card stock I ran a piece of cream
through my printer with the title of my folio using the All About Me Alpha
stamps. I changed the color to grey scale. There was shading already on the
letters, so I chose Copic markers in shades that matched the closest to
the colors of the stripes of the frame and papers and then outlined them
with a black pen.
Unfortunately, at some point I stabbed my finger with my craft pick,
and of course, got blood on the cover! Really, is it only me that this
happens to? So, I cut a piece of the green card stock – just a strip, and
adhered it to the left edge folded over to the back to hide it after I put my
patterned paper on the cover. It made for a cute binding!
Once I had the backgrounds and sizing sorted it was time to print my
family members. I sized them out and printed them onto white card stock.
I colored all of their skin at the same time. It was easier to do it that
way for me.
Next I colored those who had jeans on. I was choosing items whose color
was not in the palette of the paper.
Once the coloring was done, I fussy cut all of the images which was very
easy to do. Then I used a black water-based marker to go around the edges.
All that was left to do was to adhere the family members to the pages I
wanted and then I took Distress Watercolor Pencils and wrote – in my
messiest kid handwriting, who they were.
When I was finished I added a die cut piece of rickrack in green cardstock,
so it matched my binding and put it on the right side of the front and
the left side of the back, tucking in 2 pieces of ribbon so the folio could
be tied closed. And that completed my project!
What a fun project this turned out to be! Easy to do and so many
possibilities to create! It would even be cute to give it to a child
with the people not colored so they could color them themselves!
Supplies used:
All about Me Alpha
All the Family Stamps: Kids 1,
Babies, Toddlers, Adult 1, Adults 2
Coordinating patterned papers
Coordinating colored card stock
Length of Ribbon or Twine
Square die or Rectangle to fit your envelope size
4 Envelopes
Tim Holtz Distress Pencils: Mermaid Lagoon,
Twisted Citron, Spiced Marmalade,
Picked Raspberry
Ohuhu Markers: YR04, YR33, YR34, YR54
Copic markers used: B91, B93, B95, B97, B99,
E31, E37, E35, E33, 100, E53, RV10, YR02,
YR04, YR00, BG01, BG02, BG57, RV55,
RV17, Y21, BG10, W0, W2, YG11, YG03
Til next time...
Betsy
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