A Boy and a Girl

Yesterday my husband and I celebrated our first wedding anniversary.  Hard to believe it's been a year already!  Year 1 is paper so of COURSE I had to make him something.  I waited and waited for inspiration to hit me with just the right thing.  Then it came to me.  I should write him a story.  Our story!

I wanted to keep the focus on the story so I made a simple little mini album. 

I used a Basic Grey mini album and one sheet of Basic Grey paper.  I used my fingers to apply copper paint to each chipboard page as well as to a few of the chipboard accents.


The cover

For the front, I adhered a piece of patterned paper then used a wash of gesso over the area I planned to place the title.  After it dried I added some Glimmer Glam to help seal the paper and give it some shine.  A title, some simple embellishments, including one of my layered crinoline flowers and some bling (of course) and the cover was done.  I edged each page, chipboard and paper, with a brown Copic marker.  I love how the marker shows up differently on the painted background versus the paper pages.

I'm not much of a writer and I wasn't sure I wanted to post something so personal but my hubby thought I should share it. 

So here is our story.  I wanted to keep it somewhat generic so that it could have been about any two people while still keeping elements that were special to us.  The "Other" world I refer to is World of Warcraft, the online game we were both playing when we met.  Click on each photo for a larger view to better see the text.

Happy crafting!

Supplies used:

• Mini album (Basic Grey)
• Copper heavy body acrylic paint (Golden)
• Patterned paper, chipboard accents, chipboard letters, and stickers (Basic Grey)
• e Line pearls (Prima)
• White gesso (liquitex)
• Golden Goddess Glimmer Glam (Tattered Angels)
• Sugared maple Glimmer Mist
• Gold micro beads (Martha Stewart Crafts)
• Crinoline
• Tim Holtz Distressed Flowers die (Sizzix)
• Brown marker (Copic)
• Ribbon (Webster's Pages, American Crafts)
• Glossy Accents (Ranger)
• Fabri-Tac (Beacon)
• Tape runner (Helmar)