Tutorial for Easter Waterfall Photo Display

I'm back today with my tutorial for my Easter Photo Display that I first showed in Eileen Hull's Chapter 2 Design Team Blog hop last week.

These are the dies included in the Cards: Waterfall and Tags die set.

So here's a look at my completed project first.  I used Eileen's waterfall dies as well as her older Display Stand die.  The photos are from 2019 since we did not gather with my nieces and their children for 2020 or 2021 due to COVID!  

This would be lovely with birthday, wedding, anniversary, or vacation photos as well!

Notice the cute carrot paper?! and fun bunny ears!

View from the back -  I added an extra scallop along the top of the stand in the back to make it look 'cleaner'!

Here's how I made it:

First I found the photos I wanted on my computer and resized them to 3 1/4" wide x 2 1/4" high, printed them on Cover Stock paper from Staples (slightly heavier than computer paper).  You could print them on photo paper as well.  Then I used the die with the set to cut them out.

I die cut the Display stand out of matboard and folded it up to make the stand (this die is just one piece!).   

I die cut the waterfall base pieces out of white card stock.  I also cut a small scallop edge from Eileen's Gift Box Die out of matboard. 

Because the 4 flips were a little too tall to fit on the panel of the Display Stand and still flip easily, I cut a piece of matboard 4 1/4" x 2 1/4" to put the waterfall on. I glued the scallop to the top edge of this matboard piece and then adhered the edges of the waterfall onto the panel, putting the first flip at the top and butting up each piece below the flap of the one above.

I cut pieces of patterned paper to cover the front and base of the stand as well as the waterfall pages and scallop, paying attention to any pattern that was directional.  I didn't have enough of the striped paper to go in the same direction, so two are horizontal and two are vertical but they are under the photos so you don't see much of it, and they are the same color so it's all matchy matchy.

Here are the completed pieces ready to put together

I added ScorTape to the back of the panel.

And pressed it onto the Display Stand.

I added die cut scallops from the Waterfall die set above each photo to fill in the white space.  I die cut the Easter (Waltzingmouse/retired) and 2019 (Alphanumeric/Sizzix) out of the same paper and adhered them along the bottom of the stand.

Such a fun way to remember and display a special day with just a few photos! 

Eileen will have posts every Wednesday this month on her blog with projects by the Inspiration Team using her new Chapter 2 dies.  Be sure to check it out!

Easter Waterfall Photo Display Stand

Paper:  Little Sizzles Matboard - Sizzix, White, Hibiscus Burst - Papertrey Ink, DP Cottontail 6x6 Pad - Authentique.

Accessories:  Card: Waterfall and Tags die, Display Stand Die, Gift Box Scalloped Edge Die- Eileen Hull/Sizzix, Easter die - Waltzingmouse (retired), Alphanumeric Dies - Tim Holtz/Sizzix, Bunny Ears Die - Impression Obsession, ScorTape

This is Me Book and Case - Eileen Hull's Tiny Book and Tiny Book Case Dies

Eileen Hull's Inspiration Team is continuing to create with her new Chapter 2 Sizzix Dies - Tiny Book and Tiny Book Case.  

In the past, I have made small photo albums for each of my grand nephews and nieces and they love to look through them when they come to visit.  

Recently, when Madelyn was looking through her book she said 'Look!  There's a photo of me on a horse!  Can I take this book home?"  She had obviously forgotten the occasion when the photo was taken and wanted a book she could look at over and over at her own home.

So ....  Eileen's new dies gave me the perfect inspiration to create another book for Madelyn that I will give to her on her 6th birthday in April and she can keep at home to look at whenever she wants to!

Here are photos of the Tiny Book Case decorated in colorful bright papers (Madelyn LOVES Pink).  I personalized the little closure with an M and added a Metallic Stickers/Quotations that describes Madelyn to a T - fearless!

Here's a view from the back

Just remove the elastic cord and we find the Tiny Book inside.  I tied a piece of ribbon around the book so it's removed easily from the Tiny Book Case

I adhered some patterned paper on the inside of the flap and along the tab edges that show above the bottom flap.

I personalized the binding with her name made with my Brothers Label Maker.

I put a photo of Madelyn on the front and back covers as well as on all the pages inside.

Here are all the photos on the pages.  I show below how I resized them. I printed them on a piece of white card so they almost look like paintings without the gloss of photo paper.

 How I put this together. 

First I gathered 10 photos of Madelyn over the past year or so that I had saved on my computer.  Working in Micro Soft Office Word, I created a document with narrow margins and inserted one photo at a time.  I clicked on each photo to change Size/Position, resizing each photo to 2.5" height  and clicking ok -  as long as the width was 2" or less it would fit the pages of the book.  This resizing worked for most of the photos I chose.  If the photo was an odd size - I'd resize the width to 2" first and as long as the height was less than 2.5" it would fit the page (see middle photos on 2nd and 3rd rows and photo on last row).  Then I just hand cut the photos leaving a 1/8" border around each photo.

 

I die cut the Tiny Book out of white matboard.  Then I cut strips for the pages out of a piece of  12"x12" Bazzil dotted paper.  I cut two strips 2 7/8" x 10 5/8" and then scored each strip at 2 1/8", 4 1/4", 6 3/8" and 8 1/2" and folded them fan-fold on the score lines creasing with a bonefolder

 

I glued one strip to the other to make one long strip.  I'll be gluing the ends to the cover so they need to be an 'up' fold so I cut off one piece on the right end as shown below.

Then, leaving the end pieces clear, I put glue on 3 sections as shown and pressed the pieces together

Here's how it looks at this point - 2 end panels to attach to the cover and 3 glued together pages.

Using the Tiny Book Die - I cut a piece of patterned paper to adhere over the cover.  There is always a little shrinkage of the paper you cover a book with if you use one piece of paper.  When you fold on the score lines it pulls the paper back a bit.  If I had thought about it - I could have hand cut the cover and made it a little bit wider than the cover - but I'm happy with this clean line.

I added a piece of Red Line Tape on the inside binding of the cover, but I don't think I really needed it.  Gluing the end pages will hold the pages inside the cover.

I added glue to the covers and some over the center section where the pages are and I pressed it inside the Tiny Book

I die cut the Tiny Book Case out of matboard and then cut  pieces to fit the sections (remember to think of which way is up if you are using a paper with a direction like the hearts below.  I didn't cover the tabs where I will be putting Red Line Tape when I put the Case together.

I used 3 separate pieces of paper to cover the Book Case to avoid some of the pulling back when I bend on the scorelines.  I always start bending as soon as I've adhered the glued pieces to help ease the paper over the bends.  If you wait until the glue dries completely it can cause the paper to tear.

 I die cut the little tab piece out of matboard and patterned paper and knotted a piece of white elastic cord through each end. This will hold the Tiny Book Case closed.  I tied a piece of wrinkled seam tape around the book using a single knot before inserting it so it's easy for Madelyn to pull the book out.

 

I'm pretty sure she is going to love her fun Tiny Book Case and Tiny Book with pictures just of her!

 Please check out Eileen's blog every Wednesday to see what new creations the Inspiration Team have made using Eileen's wonderful Sizzix Dies!

 I'm linking my Tiny Book Case and Tiny Book to:
Mini Album Makers

The Crafter's Cafe Challenge
Anything Goes

Stamps:  Fresh Alphabet - Papertrey Ink

Paper:  Little Sizzles Matboard - Sizzix, white card stock - PTI, Playful Patterns: Valentine - Taylored Expressions Dotted Pink - Bazzil

Ink:   Obsidian - Altenew

Accessories:  Tiny Book and Tiny Book Case Dies - Eileen Hull/Sizzix, white elastic cord, Metallic Stickers/Quotations - Tim Holtz/Idea-ology, photos printed from computer, wrinkled seam tape Tombow Glue, red line tape.

Making Boxes with the Kids!

My last project for Eileen Hull's Blog Posts in February was actually not made by me but by my 9 year old grandnephew Landon and 7 year old grandniece Mila!   I was babysitting for them last week when their parents went out on a date.  

I always bring a craft whenever I babysit for any of my 4 grands.

I was trying to think of something they would like to make 

(I often bring the packaged crafts from Michaels). 

I know they love to have boxes just to 'put stuff in' and the light dawned!  They could each make and decorate a box using Eileen's Sizzix Gift Box! 

Here they are adhering patterned papers, that I had cut to size, to all the panels.  They did this before we assembled the box pieces.   

Mila got a little overzealous when I asked them to smile for the photo!!  

She was excited that I was going to put this on my Blog.

 I helped them line up the edges that I had put Red Line tape on and we put the box together.  I had picked up several packages of stickers at the Dollar Store a few months ago (you know, just because I might want them sometime!?!), dinosaurs, sloths, robots, llamas and forest animals and they had fun choosing the ones they wanted to decorate their boxes with.

To make the boxes easier to open, they adhered one of the scallops from the die onto the front edge of the cover - so they could just pull on that to open them up.

They were really happy with their new storage boxes and were telling me all of the things they might put in them -  a very fun and easy craft project with the kids!  With such professional looking results!

 If you missed them - check out my other projects using the Gift Box Die

Paint brush holder box

 

Circus Party Box 

Don't forget to check out Eileen's blog for more inspiration from her Inspiration Team!

Paper:  white Little Sizzles Matboard - Sizzix, designer papers - Papertrey Ink
Accessories:  Red Line Tape, roller tape, various stickers - The Dollar Store.