Designed and taught by: Karen Burniston

Length of Class: 3 hours

Level: Advanced

Class Description:

The size might be mini, but the techniques are MANY in this high-energy class featuring vibrant products from Rusty Pickle. We'll start with a 6x6 pocketed spiral album and enhance and customize the built-in pockets to be an interactive smorgasbord of pull-outs and hidden surprises. The big surprise, though, is on the very last page - a petal-fold envelope with a spring-up picture ball. The ball even spins to allow all sides to be easily viewed! Oooh! Aaah!

Want to know what you'll be working with? Prepare to be dazed by the School Daze collection from Rusty Pickle. With patterned papers, punch-out tags and coordinating letter stickers, you'll have more than enough fun stuff for the entire album. Add Bazzill cardstock, brads, jump rings, fabric, rubber bands, templates that are already photocopied onto the cardstock for you, a detailed instructional handout, a color copy of Karen's project and extra take-home templates and you've got one impressive kit!

Come prepared to work hard, including precision cutting and folding, and bring the following supplies to class: 

General Adhesive - your choice, but avoid tapes with backing sheets (too time consuming). A tape runner is ideal, glue is acceptable.

Glue Dots - or tacky tape - something strong - this is essential to the picture ball!

Scissors

Old Scissors - if you're bringing tacky tape - bring old scissors to cut it. They will get gummy!

Paper piercer (or push pin)

Craft knife, cutting mat, ruler

Scoring tool - highly recommend an embossing stylus - something with a small, precise tip

Trimmer (optional)

Anywhere hole punch with a medium bit. (The size for a standard eyelet)

Needle-nosed pliers (if you have them)

Photos can be added later, but if you want to bring them to class, here are the sizes on Karen’s project:

Vertical 3x4 (cover)

Seven 4x4 square photos (interior left pages and inside frame)

Three to five 2x3ish (tags)

One 1.75x2, one 2x2.75 (file folder pull down)

One 2.25x3.5 (inside "U" pull up)

Eight to ten 1x1.5 (picture ball, background, last page)

Two horizontal 5.25x1.75 (envelope flaps)

A few small photos to fill in here and there