Distrezzed Beach Bum Album

Spring break is here for many and here in Florida, that means a trip to the beach.  For many others around the states, that means a trip to the Florida beaches!  Where are you spending Spring Break?

I discovered the perfect paper for this album at CHA this Winter.  The paper is the Surf and Swim collection from a new company called Trinity.  They have some gorgeous papers and I love the weight of the paper as well.  The paper was perfect to distrezz with my Distrezz-It-All.  Of course, the addition of a little burlap from Canvas Corp and some Glimmer goodness from Tattered Angels added to the shabby beach flavor throughout the album.  I used many Helmar products to put the entire album together.  I used Zutter 8×8 chipboard for my front and back cover and bound the whole album using my Bind-it-All.    The paper was glued to the covers with Helmar Acid Free glue.  This is the best glue for covering albums with paper as my paper never warps or wrinkles with this glue.  I have the big bottle because I use this so much.  

The burlap and alpha on the burlap are glued down using Helmar 450 Quick Dry adhesive and the shells were all cut out and glued using Helmar Scrap Dots for dimension. 

It only gets better as I turn the pages.

 

I have to admit I had some great friends, Jackie and Susan, come over Saturday and we scrapped together and all had touches on this album.  Jackie and Susan helped do a lot of fussy cutting.  Isn’t this wagon adorable with the windows cut out?  

Some flowers were cut out and rolled and glued with Helmar Zap Dots to create that stunning dimensional flower.   I used Helmar Gemstone glue to add the brown glass beads to the center.  The Helmar Gemstone glue was perfect because it dries clear.

Little 4 x6 page protector by Zutter.

I just want to jump into that water paper!  All the paper layers and flip flops were glued with Helmar Acid Free Glue again. 

More layers of distrezzed paper and paper elements that were cut from the paper line and glued down with Helmar Acid Free glue and a little bit of Helmar Scrap Dots. 

I love these little tiki heads.  I cut these out and popped them up with Helmar Scrap Dots.  

Added a little Core-dinations cardstock and did a little more fussy cutting.  Everything was glued down with Helmar Acid Free Glue except for the bottom flower.  This flower was adhered with one round Helmar ZapDot.  I only put one towards the bottom so that a picture could easily be slid in behind the flower and under the edge of the border flowers.

My daughter has plans to go to the beach, so I made this for her to add pictures to and give her something to look back on.  I can’t wait to see what pictures she will take with this album in mind.  I’m not even really a beach person, but this paper and album made me want to go to the beach.  Ok, I really just want to fill the margarita glass that I used as a prop in the background, but I can drink that on the beach, right?

Once again, I love all my Helmar products.  I love that I have a variety of adhesives that I can use for different purposes and to achieve different effects all in one project.   Do you find yourself reaching for more than one adhesive now to finish one project?

So celebrate with me today since it’s my birthday and take some time to enjoy the warmer season and join me for a margarita or just sit and soak in a little sunshine.