I have wanted to do an acrylic album class for quite some time and finally got something designed for my November classes using the Holiday Wishes stamp set (at least I think that's the name of it!) from the Nov/Dec '08 Country Living promo.
Finally had to force myself to haul out my BIA (which I bought last spring!) and figure out how to use it. Turned out to be not so bad after all, and I love using the white coils for the binding, doesn't it look great with the white StazOn ink?
Anyway, I got the sheets of the clear acrylic (it's semi flexible, not super rigid like an acrylic photo frame) in a 12x12 size and cut them down with my SU tabletop cutter. So far so good on that and the cut is nice and clean!
I took photos of the front cover. the inside pages and then the book "spread eagled" so you can see the back and the front at the same time. Clear transparencies sheets sandwiched in between the DSP provider an "overlay" so I stamped a few flourishes and snowflakes on the overlay, that way whichever way you have the page flipped, you can still see the images framing the photos. Well, if I had put any photos in it! This particular view is the front cover only.
Let me know what you think, ok?
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Sat, Nov 01, 2008 @ 12:01 PM
No, sadly we no longer carry the "window panes" acrylic sheets but I got a thicker acrylic sheet from a friend who is able to order wholesale and used those, the inner "overlay" sheets are overhead transparencies. Because they only come in an 8.5x11" size, I ended up cutting them .5" shorter on the width than the DSP. The 5x5 solid cardstock "mat" then lines up exactly on the edge f the 5.5" side of the transparency making it easy to flip the page like an inner overlay rather than a full page. The other 0.5" portion is taken up by the binding. This way I get 2 overlays out of each transparency sheet rather than only one 6x6 transparency from each 8.5x11 sheet. I have too much Welsh blood in me to waste that much material, I guess! ;-) Jan