Hi Roadies! It's been a fun, HOT summer so far and the kids and I are definitely loving the long lazy days! Here is a little canvas album I made of the kids enjoying their new "slip n slide" on a particularly hot day.
This cute 4" Canvas Binder comes with 3 chipboard pages and 3 canvas ones and is a great size to work with. I painted some large and small Alterable Buttons and then layered them onto mini chipboard sun shapes, from the How's the Weather CB Set.
I kept most of the canvas on the binder in it's natural state, just adding some acrylic paint to the spine, a little patterned paper, some stickers and (my favorite) Zipper Trim for added texture.
Back view of binder
The inside of the album was kept simple. I trimmed my 4"x6" photos to fill the pages and just added a few mini chipboard shapes, buttons and rub-ons.
For the canvas pages, I used my sewing machine to stitch around the edges. Then used markers to color around the frayed edges. "Smile" (from the Say Cheese Stamp Set) was stamped directly onto canvas, while the journaling was printed out onto a scrap piece of canvas first, then glued onto the page.
I used some of the new Kraft Notes and Envelopes in the album too, I added the larger square one as a page and the smaller one (seen in the last photo) was adhered to the canvas page.
On the last page, I've left a spot to jot down some of the kids favorite things done over the summer.
Maya Road Supplies:
4" Canvas Binder
Kraft Notes and Envelopes
Say Cheese Clear Stamp Set
Zipper Trim (black)
How's The Weather Mini Chipboard Set
Love Mini Chipboard Set
Alterable Buttons
Caroline Mini CB Alphabet
Bingo Numbers (black)
Tiny Banner CB Bits
Super Nova Chipboard Set
Summer Keychain (large sun)
Enjoy the rest of your summer, Roadies!
Wow, this is a gorgeous album! Love all the details and the Hometown Summer items, and the fact that this is canvas just takes it up a notch with texture!
Posted by: Cynthia B. | July 29, 2011 at 11:50 AM
Beautiful album Jen!!! It's so bright and fun....just like Summer! Your kids are adorable!
Posted by: Shelley Haganman | July 29, 2011 at 03:08 PM
love your adorable mini!
Posted by: Charity | July 30, 2011 at 03:44 PM
Wow !!! What a great album.
Posted by: Julie Shearer | August 02, 2011 at 10:44 AM
Amazing. I love the canvas. Gives me great ideas.
Posted by: Lisa P | August 06, 2011 at 10:19 AM
Wow, this is fabulous. I just love the canvas binder. Great idea to use the zipper trim with it.
Posted by: Sherry F | August 06, 2011 at 11:37 AM
oooh i love the mini and the colors!!! great project!! xx Tamara
Posted by: Tamara | August 06, 2011 at 12:23 PM
super idea! love this cute mini album.
Posted by: Fran Heupel | August 06, 2011 at 02:13 PM
Super book, love the colors!
LizW in TX
Posted by: LizW in TX | August 06, 2011 at 03:28 PM
gorgeous! love all of the details and bright, fun summer colors!
Posted by: griffingirl | August 06, 2011 at 04:29 PM
Stunning ... love what you do
xoxo
Posted by: Angella Peardon | August 06, 2011 at 10:06 PM
awww, how cute is this. I love all the different pages
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