Mini Album Stand

I am so excited to be sharing my first post as a Tattered Angels Educator. Did you know that the Tattered Angels Educators have a blog dedicated to the TA Educator Team all to teach you about using the entire line of Tattered Angels paints?  If not, make sure you check it out for LOTS of inspiration and bookmark the site.  Also, don’t forget that we are available to teach at your LSS and I’m eager to travel and make new friends.  🙂

 My first project is a rather simple project, but one I was thrilled to finish.   First of all, I’ve had this stand by Kaiser Craft for a long time.   Second, I just redesigned my studio and now have a place to display my finished albums and a few works of art, so this was a perfect project for me to start with.   And Tattered Angels products work so great on unfinished wood, I just couldn’t resist.  Now my actual project is under those albums.  You might recognize the first two as albums taught by Stayce DeWid; the holiday one was also a Tattered TV class.

It started out as this plain kit.

I covered it with this wonderful resist paper from Pink Paislee Mistables collection.  

Look at the gorgeous resist detail.   Yumminess just waiting to happen!

I used Key Lime Pie and Dragonfly Glimmer Mists, Teal High Heels Glimmer Mist Chalkboard, All that Jazz Glimmer Glam, and Tide Pool and Pixie Dust Glimmer Glaze on the entire project. 

I traced the wood pieces onto the back of the sheet of paper I chose to use.  After all the pieces were traced, I flipped the paper over and misted with the Key Lime Pie and Dragonfly Glimmer Mists.  I let it set on the paper for just a minute and then wiped the excess off the resist marks.   After it was dry, I cut out the shapes just slightly smaller than I had traced.  
I painted all the raw edges of the wood pieces that would be exposed with All that Jazz Glimmer Glam except the very bottom pieces. This kept the top exposed edges shiny.  I then sprayed all the sides and remaining edges with the Glimmer Mist Chalkboard.  Even though I knew most would be covered, I wanted to ensure that no bare edges would show anywhere.  Plus, it was just fun. 
I glued the cut paper shapes to the corresponding wood pieces using Helmar Craft and Hobby PVA Glue.  I just brushed this onto the paper with a big paintbrush and the brayered the paper onto the wood.   I love that this glue did not warp my paper and sealed completely with no bubbles or buckling.  I have found that if you apply your glue to your paper rather than your substrate, you will have less buckling regardless of how you apply it.
After adhering the paper to the front piece, I stamped a small sentiment from Papertrey Ink Handwritten Notes that reads “simple things…small joys…” with black Archival Ink and then assembled all the pieces. I used a metal frame from Teresa Collins blingage and painted with the two Glimmer Glams. Love that chunky glitter.  

Since the bottom base stuck out farther than the front edge, I used Helmar Liquid Scrap Dots to adhere the frame to the front.   Since the frame was a piece of heavy metal, I did fold a tiny scrap of paper to use as a shim while it dried.  Once dried, it is a solid adhesive fix.  I misted some Prima trim with Key Lime Pie Glimmer Mist and painted on some extra Pixie Dust Glimmer Glam and adhered the trim to the sides.

Here is a close up picture without the albums.  

A few more angles.

It holds multiple sizes of albums, as you can see.

Now I have a functional album stand comprised of wood, paper, fabric trim, and metal, all colored with all types of Tattered Angels paints.   I hope you find some inspiration here.  Now go get messy and paint something.