A Horse of a Different Color: New Oz album with G45 "Magic of Oz" & Leaky Shed Chipboard!!

We are journeying over the rainbow once again for an album full of Graphic 45's Magic of Oz paper. One of my oldest friends loves the Wizard of Oz and I want to make a very special album as a gift.  This time I am altering a Leaky Shed Emerald City chip board album.  I ordered this album with some matching etched chipboard embellishments a while back (like a year ago);  I think Leaky Shed still makes it.  Ask your local store if they can order it because it is pretty darned cool.

I started by altering the pages of the ablum to be a little more unique and interactive by adding flaps. I then covered each page with the gorgeous G45 paper.  To do this I traced the shape of the chipboard onto the paper (doing it backwards on back of paper where possible)  And trimmed then sanded/filed away the overhang.

On the front cover is the green "Emerald City" paper.  This album  comes with doors , I covered them with "Parcel Post." 

I really wanted the doors to open and close, so  I used a set of Tim Holtz' Idea-ology hinges. The brads provided won't go through the thick chipboard, so I used 3 in 1 glue. (Let it sit overnight) I also added a latch.

For the chip board letters I painted them in a thick coat od Viva Decor crackle paint in gold.  When it was dry I buffed in some InkaGold in lime green.  The final embellishments added to the cover were some Jeweled brads (green of course) and some green rhinestones.

On the back of the front cover I used the "Munchkins" paper.  Using the text on the door and the munchkins on the rest of the page.  I also added a line of brass colored faux brads around the arch of the door.  On the next page, I lined up Dorothy and Scarecrow to the front door using a quadrant from the "There's No Place Like Home". The background is the bubbles from the "Poppy Fields" paper.

I covered the back of page two with the character side from the "Yellow Brick Road" paper .  At the bottom I added a "pocket" with a strip of card from the "Journey to Oz" 8x8 paper.  I added a couple of tags into the pocket, one curved with  the poppies from "Poppy Fields" and the "Emerald City paper on back with stamps from "Parcel Post" and a pointed one with gingham from "Yellow Brick Road" and the slippers side of the "No Place Like Home" paper.

Page three has a flap added to it, I covered the front side in the Oz lettering from the "Scatterbrained Scarecrow" paper.  I added a copper color die cut embellishment by leaky shed of the Scarecrow. (These also seem to be made to match the Magic of Oz.) The outside of the added flap and main page are cover with the hearts from "Tenderhearted Tin Man."  And have a silver Tin man embellishment by Leaky Shed and Cowardly Lion stamp.

The back of the third page is covered with the ruby slippers pattern ("No Place like Home") and a fussy cut one from reverse side.  The next page is the tall silhouette of the Emerald City and the center of the book. I covered this in the green stripes from "Parcel Post." I added different sized green rhinestone bling on the top "pillars."  I used the same tracing, trimming and filing method that I used on the cover to get the shape right. I added two over lapping flaps.  The front one has the "Emerald City" paper with more green bling and a green pom pom ribbon across the bottom.

 The back of the flap is in the "Tenderhearted Tin Man."  The underneath flap has the newspaper side of the "Goblin Gazette" on one side and the cards from "Journey to Oz" on the back.

 The back of the city silhouette has the Oz lettering from the "Scatterbrained Scarecrow." There are some carer rhinestones added to the tops of the "pillars."  At the bottom I ,made a pocket from the "Munchkins" paper with a fussy cut edge at the top.  I added two tags that I had made for a different OZ album that didn't work out. (long story, lol)  So I honestly don't remember what the pink or gingham paper brands or lines are, I'm sorry.  On page six I added two flaps that I shaped into folder type tabs using the We R Memory Keepers envelope punch.  I added a simple woven ribbon tie to them. 

The base page is the blue gingham ("Yellow Brick Road") with a fussy cut Dorothy. The inner tab has hearts ("Tenderhearted Tin Man") and a fussy cut Tin Man on one side and "Yellow Brick Road" on the back. The front tab has the "Goblin Gazette" with a card from "Journey to Oz" on one side and the writing from "Munchkins" with a couple fussy cut munchkins on the other.

 The back of page six has the stamps from "Parcel Post" with the Leaky Shed Cowardly Lion embelly. The next page (7) has the striped side of "Parcel Post" covering it.  

 This is another page that has an added flap panel.  I covered the outside of the flap with the Scarecrow and Tin Man from the "There's No Place Like Home" paper.

 The inside of the flaps are in the "Emerald City" paper with a fussy cut Scarecrow and the words "There's no place like home" across it.  Page eight has cards from the 12x12 and 8x8 "Journey to Oz" paper.  I used one at the top of the page to change the shape of the page.

The back of page eight features the Wicked Witch.  I used the "Wicked" paper with fussy cut clocks from reverse as embellishments.   The next page is a pre-made chipboard tag I added to the album.  It has the Oz lettering from the "Goblin Gazette"  with the witch feet from "There's No Place Like home fussy cut on it.

The back of the tag has the "Tenderhearted" hearts and a fussy cut Wizard. I added some red and yellow ribbons.  I added a large page to the back so that the silhouette of the Emerald City was highlighted.  To create contrast I used the poppy paper over the whole piece and added the  Scroll work title from the "Magic of Oz" paper. 

 For the back of the album, I decided to go simple with a sheet of the Goblin Gazette.

I was really happy with how this min turned out and I think my friend really like receiving it as a gift.   The leaky shed album and embellishments were a great platform for the amazing Magic of Oz papers in 12x12 and 8x8 (one of my absolute faves!)

I apologize for the meh photos, I ended up taking them with my phone at my friends house.

 

G45's The Magic of OZ - Altoid Tin Mini

So, the other day I was browsing the shelves at 7-ll (as we all do from time to time) and I notice this adorable heart shaped Altoids tin. So I buy it (OK, I bought 2.) But what to do with it? Heart. Tin. Heart. Tin. Tin man! I should make a Wizard of Oz mini. And so I got out my Magic of Oz paper and get to work.

First thing is first and I dump all the mints out into a baggie. And I notice that instead of the usual folds of paper on top of the mints there are little card board inserts. And yes you guessed it I used those as my template to make all the heart shapes in this project.  In a couple of spots I had to shrink or grow the heart slightly, but never enough to be a problem.  I glued the shoes paper to the front of the tin leaving the red border showing around the paper. (I used a liquid glue.)

I bent the hinges so that I could remove the lid and put a blue gingham fabric tape around the bottom edge of the tin.I wrapped it around so the seam was hard to see and cut slits in the tape for the hinges to reattach. On the inside of the lid I added red and white polka dot fabric tape to the edge.

I added a slightly larger than the template heart in the 8x8 sized poppy paper and then layered a smaller than the template heart in the small tin man heart paper over top. Remember that the heart is upside down on the inside of the lid.  I trimmed down a chipboard tag with the ruby slippers that says " There's no place like home." and glued it to the center.  I added some plastic poppies I had found in an embellishment bar.  

Meanwhile, I had glued a Dorothy to a plain black cardstock and fussy cut her out.  The card stock was to strengthen the paper when it stuck out over the edge of the tin.I added some red Stickles glitter to D's bow ad trimmed her legs to fit the edge of the lid.  Below her pointing finger I added the word OZ in gold jewelry box Thickers.

To start assembling the mini book, I glued the hearts I cut out of the 8x9 Magic of OZ together in twos. I tried to put like paper together , but in the end it was a bit random.  Afterwards I went back with scissors or a distress sander and evened up the edges. After I had all my hearts glued together (there should be one singleton for the base that will be glued into bottom of the tin) I used a small hole punch on either edge of the hearts.

 

I then attached the hearts with larger sized jump rings, like you would use for jewelry.  I glued the last paper heart to the base of the tin, so the string of hearts was attached to the tin. And now I began decorating. I lined one side of each heart with glitter. After that dried I added fussy cut characters, more glitter and a couple chipboard tags. (This is another place whee thinning the chipboard is helpful

 

 

Wgen I got to the very last heart, the one glued to the bottom, I added a fusst cut of the stamped image of the word "home" from the matching g45 stamps.

I really adore this album and am already thinking about what I can do with the second tin!


Materials Used:
Paper: Graphic 45 The Magic of OZ (8x8, chipboard tags)
Inks, Glitter & Paint: Various colors of Stickles
Other: Plastic poppies, small doilies, red rhinestones, G45 Magic of OZ stamps

A little something...

Started working on an altered Altoids tin and mini book withe the G45 OZ paper while I was at Perfect Day.  Aren't these Valentine's day tins adorable?  I just used the cardboard insert as a template to make the heart shapes; so simple to do.  (I went back to 7-11 and bought two more, I was so excited to alter them.)

The Holidays start with....a Wizard of Oz Mini Album

So I decided that this year is a crafting Christmas.  I have been busy making gifts and decorations.  For my step sister I picked up a Pinecone Press kit to make a mini ablum using the Graphic 45 "Magic of Oz" line.

First of all I love love love this paper.  I know my step sister will too, because she likes vintage and the Wizard of Oz.  I picked up a kit mainly to save time.  But also because I had bought several of the Pinecone Press album bases, like the interactive album in this kit, during Shop Hop and it was nice to learn how to put the pieces together.

I did not follow the instructions to the letter, the measurements left a bit more of the kraft colored chipboard showing than I like.  I think I will use the blank chipboard albums for more projects now that I have put one together.  I recommend the Pinecone kits, they use some pretty cool papers (lots of Graphic 45 yay! among others) and some unusual shapes and sizes for their custom album blanks. Visit their site here.