Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Knock Knock Who's There?

Here's a mini album I designed for April class called "Knock Knock Who's There?"
and the inside...
Mini Album: "Home is where the Heart Is"
The cover is supposed to look like a door (hence the corny class name)....but somehow I think the 'vegetation' took over and you can't quite make out the door anymore....haha. Don't know why by I think my cover looks very 'hobbit' house like...

Necessity is the Mother of Happy Accidents:
Q: What happens when you don't have enough metal keyplates / keyholes to give to people in classs?
A: You engineer a happy accident and make one of your own!

Make Your Own Keyplate / Keyhole:
1. Find a chipboard circle/ small piece of chipboard.
2. Using your cropadile (or hole punch), punch one big hole in the chipboard, then one smaller hole below.
3. Using your craft knife, cut 2 slits joining the big hole to the little hole to try and make a keyhole shape
4. Emboss chipboard piece with metallic embossing powder and distress with ink - voila!

Just thought you'd like to know....the original chipboard covers I was assigned had pink and white polka dots on them....bleagh! So I covered them all up with cardstock and used the inside of the cover (which had nice woodgrain on it) instead - haha!

And before I go, here's a cute joke my son told me which seems to fit today's theme:

Knock Knock.
Who's there?
Peas
Peas who?
Peas to meet you!
(trust me, its very cute when he says it)

6 comments:

Kate said...

i've seen the sample at the store and sooo wanted to sign up for this. but the timing was never good for me.

*sigh* another missed chance to take your class...

Edleen said...

your son, so cute! :D

that album is truly awesome!
you always so Creative laa :)

Sasha Farina said...

happy.. happyyyyyyyyyyyyy accidents!!! :D love the album.. looks gorgeous!

CK Chai said...

cool! thanks for sharing the technique on making Keyplate / Keyhole :)

jaz lee said...

Another aaaaaaaawesome project sharon.and your boy too cute!!!

Peggy said...

Gorgeous!!! And thank you so much for sharing that keyhole technique with us - so easy... now why can't I come up with things like that???? You're the best!
xxx Peggy