Hello Helmar fans, Raelene with you Today with a Mary Poppins project.
Living in the town PL Travers was born in means I have a lot of Mary Poppins memories to document in addition to my memories of enjoying the movie as a child and again as a parent with my children. I really wanted to do a mini album for all these memories but I couldn't decide on a size so I thought a Traveller's Notebook insert would be perfect for this project. I love TN Scrapping it is a great way to get memories down quickly.
So Today's post is about documenting this year's Mary Poppins Festival, I left several pages in the front of my insert for documenting my childhood memories and taking my kids to the festival when they were younger to the Festival. This post is about the pages that feature embellishments I made with Helmar glues.
There was so many wonderful costumes and so much going on, we could have taken hundreds of photos and not captured all the wonderful things.
Items used
Assorted free printables found online.
Paper doily and toothpick
Distress Inks Walnut Stain.
I started by making 2 paper doily parasols, I knew I wanted to use one of these with a particular photo I took on the day.
I folded a paper doily in half, and that half in half and so on until when folded out there was 16 segments. I cut this in half, I folded the outer segments so they folded in.
I grabbed a toothpick and used Helmar Quick Dry 450 glue to glue the toothpick to the inside of one side of the doily half. I then added some Helmar Quick Dry 450 to the very edge of the back of this and glued the other side to this. I ran a small amount of glue to the inside on the toothpick and glued the top section of the doily down onto the toothpick so it looks like a parasol.
I also cut out parts to make a paper kite to use when needed, and selected a twine to use when I adhere it down. But more on that later.
Now that I had my parasols and pieces of a kite I started scrapping my memories.
For the layout with the paper doily parasol I started by choosing a lovely vintage looking paper from a very old Kaisercraft Magnolia Grove. I layered the backside of the left over piece behind the photo and added a section of vintage crocheted doily along the bottom. I adhered the doily to the papers with Helmar Premium Craft Glue and adhered the papers together with Helmar Acid Free Glue. I know my memories will last thanks to Helmar.
I aged my typed journaling with some Distress Ink in Walnut stain and adhered this to the crochet doily piece with Helmar Premium Craft Glue.
I then built a small cluster with the carpet bag charm from my Scrapping Fun Kits August 2018 Kit and a butterfly sticker from the Kaisercraft Magnolia Grove paper pack.
Helmar Quick Dry 450 was the perfect glue for adhering the charm down to the paper.
When adding the kite to the page I used Helmar Premium Craft Glue, I simply applied it directly to the page in a wave and added the twine to it, then I added 4 dots on the twine to adhere the bows to and some to the top of the twine and the page to adhere the kite shape to.
I matted my photo with a journaling card from a free printable I found online and my background paper is from Kaisercraft Magnolia Grove.
I have loved getting these memories recorded like this. In addition to using Helmar glues to make my embellishments I used Helmar Acid Free Glue to adhere all my photos and papers, I know that using Helmar means they will last a lifetime.
I will have a flip through of the finished project up on my YouTube Channel shortly.
