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Slide Mailer – Preparing the Cover

Draw round your prepared slide, and then cut out.  You want your slide to fit snugly in the hole, so take care not to cut it too big!

Any jagged edges you are left with can be filed down gently with a nail file.

Now it’s a good idea to paint your cover with gesso, white acrylic paint or white emulsion – this primes the board to give a good base for your inks and paints to work on.  This isn’t vital, it just makes your paint colours more true!

For my cover, after the primer was dry I painted it all yellow with acrylic paints.  I then painted my petals on the front.  The wording is stamped with Stazon – I wanted a more muted effect, so stamped on paper before stamping on my project to take away excess ink.

I then stamped my image, and then sponged Brilliance Galaxy Gold over the edges.

I blobbed Glossy Accents in the middle of the flower, and poured beads over it for texture.

On the inside of the cover, I painted it yellow, but on the very edges painted it orange, then blended it in to the yellow.  When blending I don’t use much paint at all, and keep kitchen roll handy to keep wiping my brush with.

Once you have finished decorating your cover, place it flat on a non-stick craft mat, and put the slides in place.  Put a beading of Glossy Accents around it – don’t overdo it, you don’t want it to ooze out the other side!!  I then sprinkle micro-beads over the Glossy Accents.

Be patient, wait for it to dry before moving it!  When it’s dry, turn it over and do the same to the other side.

Once it’s completely dry, it’s time for the finishing touches – first I inked the edges.

I then punched a small hole with my cropodile, and the Kwik-Thread made quick and easy work of threading the fibres.

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