Category Archives: SCRAPBOOK ADHESIVES BY 3L

Flourishes Birthday Pennants Blog Hop!

Posted on March 18, 2011 | 31 comments

When Flourishes first laid eyes on two of the brand new die template sets from Spellbinders, they just knew that they needed a stamp set to coordinate with these funky and fresh dies templates! Are you ready to take a peek?

This fun set just screams celebration and offers 6 different pennants and flags all designed to coordinate perfectly with Spellbinders S5-028 Nested Pennants and S5-029 Lacey Nested Pennants. There are also 9 sentiments and 8 accents in the set that you can use to deck out your pennant shapes in fun and different ways!

Want a little more to coordinate with your cards? How about our new Strips and Stripes background set? This set offers three strips to use together as one background or separate as three different strips that coordinate with the Birthday Pennants set!

I’ve been crazy busy, but I promise to post the instructions and step shots and inside tomorrow. I did an easy technique to get the double embossed frame around the card. So gather up your Worldwin Paper, Clearsnap ink and Bits of Bling, SCRAPBOOK ADHESIVES BY 3L™ 3D Foam Squares and MyStik™ and a bit of twine! I used LF-168 Grand Large Labels and S4-324 Ribbon Banners too!

Because Flourishes just knew this set was a match made in heaven with the Spellbinder’s Pennant Dies, we asked some of their ever-so-talented designers to join the Flourishes team for a little show and tell! Make sure to hop on over and see…

Barbara Anders
Christine Okken
Cindy Lawrence
Danielle Kennedy
Dawn Burnworth
Julie Koerber
Leslie Miller
Stacy Morgan
Jan Marie Caruso
Heidi Blankenship
Beth Pingry
Margie Higuchi
Holly Simoni
Mona Pendleton
AJ Otto
Latisha Yoast
Deborah Young
Kazan Clark
Terre Fry

Would you like to win these sets? Just leave a comment on the Flourishes Blog! Flourishes will draw one lucky name for both sets and announce it Saturday on the Flourishes blog!

Of course I love your comments too! Thank you for coming by, and good luck!

Beth

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Posted in Card, SCRAPBOOK ADHESIVES BY 3L, Spellbinders

Tagged Birthday, blog hop, Clearsnap, Flourishes, Nested Lacey Pennants, Nested Pennants, Spellbinders, stamps, Worldwin

Purple Rose Thank You Card

Posted on February 26, 2011 | 14 comments

I’m way behind on sending thank you cards. My excuse is that I refuse to buy them in a store, and even if I do, I get the “where’s my hand made card?” response. I took some Saturday time to make cards, which are still sitting here because now I need stamps. Anyway, using the Grand Calibur™ and new Spellbinders™ die templates I whipped out a bunch bouquet of cards assembly line style.

I was determined not to dip into my 12×12″ papers, but to use up scraps. I have a ton of purple Worldwin cardstock, Basic Grey (I made an 8×8″ album for a friend and have so many scraps) and I got a great deal on these ‘Thank You’ rub-ons when a store went out of business. OK, so I had to cut the card backs, but that doesn’t count, right?

Real quick – this is how to make a dozen cards with scraps and the Grand Calibur. The die templates I used are new Spellbinders S5-024 Labels Twenty-One; S4-324 Ribbon Banners and S5-050 Rose Creations. Rub-ons are older Reminisce, and the card backs are Worldwin cover stock, and Glimmer Mist in Haunted Shadow and Apple.

Since I had room, I cut 4 of the Banner Basics in each pass, I just love them and they’ll be good to have on hand for another project.

Next step, assemble the roses. I mixed and matched the purples and used sparkly brads from Creative Impressions. The leaves, labels and banners were edged with an ink pad. The leaves were also spritzed with Glimmer Mist.

The flat flowers were not working for me. I folded the petals up and in to give the flowers some dimension. Then I sprayed some purple Glimmer Mist onto my mat and tapped and dragged the edges of the flower. This is quick and there is no reason to fuss about perfection in this step.

See, it makes a huge difference and it doesn’t matter if they are all slightly different.

I pushed the brad through the labe to attach the rose, then used SCRAPBOOK ADHESIVES BY 3L™ 3D Foam Squares on the leaves and MyStik™ Mounting Squares to adhere the labels to the cards, and the Ribbon Banners on top of the labels.

Each rose and label is different, but that’s ok, nobody will know but you and me!

And nobody will know that I used up some stash very nice paper!

They’ll just be shocked to actually get something from me!!

Thank You for stopping by!!

Beth

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Posted in Card, SCRAPBOOK ADHESIVES BY 3L, Spellbinders

Tagged Basic Grey, Creative Impressions, Glimmer Mist, Grand Calibur, Nestabilities, Purple Rose, Spellbinders, Tattered Angels, Thank You

A Birthday Card

Posted on January 7, 2011 | 7 comments

I’ve got a post-n-run (or not run) today. Here’s a birthday card I put together in a jiffy for Stacey Caron’s birthday on the Spellbinders Blog today.

The base is from Grand Squares, the distressed flower is newsprint patterned paper spritzed with Glimmer Mists, and the polka dot paper is from Fancy Pants Designs, Delicate Dots cut/embossed with Grand Scalloped Squares. The Fancy Tag is the opposite side of the same paper. The leaves were from leftover paper from my Altered Purse project on SCRAPBOOK ADHESIVES BY 3L™’s Blog, and cut/embossed with On The Vine in my Grand Calibur™.

So when your 9-year-old nephew hassles you to post on the blog, (Sup, dawg?) you know you’ve been a little behind. So I do apologize, Here are my top 10 excuses.

1. Holidays.

2. Crazy-busy CHA Prep with Spellbinders – don’t miss the Sneak Peeks next week!! This is the BEST collection we’ve ever had. Seriously!

3. Crazy-insane-busy big project with Spellbinders.

4. Hour long visits for Chiro/PT so I can get back on the treadmill and faster than 3.6. Who knew I was so messed up? And could someone find my metabolism?

5. Did I mention crazy-busy? Can I get some volunteers to un-deck the halls? Or should I leave the Christmas trees up until February, like last year?

6. Mountains of laundry, organized unions of dust bunnies, and other random distracting items. No photos, too scary!

7. A new website for my blog. Yeah, DH got me all set up and I started fussing and now I’m kinda stuck in decision-making paralysis on a few things. I know, just do it and keep fixing as I go along. When I get a spare moment of sanity, I will. Be gentle on me!

8. I just can’t decide on my OLW. Not that I have made it past a few days, but it seems like a good idea. So far “DUH” is the front-runner.

9. Couponing. Is it worth the 2 hours of time setting up my store card, printing and clipping coupons, to spend another 2 hours in the store making sure I’ve got the right products and sizes, to save $15? I love the thrill of saving $$, just not convinced its worth the effort or time involved.

10. Girlfriend. She’s like 55 in dog years, according to the chart at the vet, but she is still acting like a silly puppy! Such an attention hog! But she’s not as fat as I expected (a round 58 lbs) while remaining significantly happy.