Category Archives: Scrapbook

National Scrapbook Day

Posted on May 1, 2010 | 4 comments

How are you celebrating NSD? Have you entered the contest at Spellbinders™ yet?

This is my NSD effort, finished yesterday~

My intent was to show how to make the flowers (love them!), but I ended up with 3 techniques, so enjoy!

Let me start with the flowers, these are all the rage right now, and they’re so easy to make! I cut/embossed some old book pages with S4-249 Big Scalloped Circles LG. I used all the dies in this Nestabilities® set. It was thin paper so I did 3 pages at once.

Attach single layers with a brad to make 3 flowers.

Spritz with Glimmer Mist, scrunch with your fingers, and dry with your heat tool.

Repeat until you have the depth of color desired. You can use more than one color.

For the finishing touch, I spritzed a darker color onto my silicone mat and touched the scrunched edges into it, then heated until dry. The flowers will hold the scrunched shape.

Next I stamped the Gina K stamp onto light and dark purple papers. I cut/embossed S4-114 Standard Circles LG #4 (#1 is the smallest) to perfectly cut the center from the lighter cardstock. The darker stamped cardstock was cut/embossed with S4-161 Labels One #4.

The lighter piece was centered and adhered with 3D Foam Squares for dimension, over the top of the darker one.

Are you still with me? I used a piece of brown scrap paper and applied adhesive on both sides, using SCRAPBOOK ADHESIVES BY 3L™ 12×12″ Adhesive Sheets. I set the paper down on the sticky sheet, ran my brayer over it, then folded it over to apply adhesive to the other side. Cut this with S4-121 Doodle Parts in the Wizard™.

I peeled the backing from one side and applied black glitter to each piece. I peeled the backing from the other side to adhere it to the layout. This idea made it easy to add the glitter and I didn’t have to mess with adhesive once I had a glittery piece, because I already had glitter everywhere! I’ll be sneezing glitter for days! And Cindy sure looks sparkly.

Next I assembled the layout onto white cardstock that had been masked and Glimmer Misted with colors to coordinate with the flowers. The E-Z Runner adhered everything else to the layout.

These are the supplies I used: Spellbinders Wizard™; S4-249 Big Scalloped Circles LG; S7-018 Big Scalloped Border Grand; S4-161 Labels One; S4-121 Doodle Parts; S4-157 Sunflower Set One; S4-158 Sunflower Set Two; S4-114 Standard Circles LG; Worldwin, White, Light Lovely Lilac, Dark Lovely Lilac, Black; Gina K, Lovely Labels Stamps; Creative Impressions, Bright Glimmer Round Fastener; SCRAPBOOK ADHESIVES BY 3L™, E-Z Runner, Adhesive Sheets; Clearsnap, Colorbox Black Pigment Ink; Tattered Angels, Antique Brass, Meadow Green and Haunted Shadow Glimmer Mists, Glimmer Screens; Sparkle N Sprinkle, Black Ice Glitter; Copic, atyou Spica Pitch Black pen.

Spellbinders and Wizard are trademarks of Spellbinders Paper Arts, llc.
Nestabilities is a registered trademark of Spellbinders Paper Arts, llc.

Have a great day!

Beth

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Tagged Nestabilities, Spellbinders

The most wonderful…

Posted on September 2, 2009 | 4 comments

time of the year! For me, that is, not for Cindy and the boys!

Details on this layout can be found at Spellbinders Blog. These photos are from 2001, Spunky and Sparky are not quite so cooperative anymore with first day of school pictures.

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Tagged School, Spellbinders

Storing My Spellbinders Dies

Posted on November 6, 2008 | Comments Off

I keep my current dies in a metal CD box from Target. I put each die on a magnet, that keeps it from rubbing up against another die and keeps the parts together on the Nestabilities and Shapeabilities. If there are several parts to a die I also put them in a ziplock type craft or sandwich bag. The magnets are from my dad, he’s a realtor and gives out 5×7 magnets with yearly calendars and Bears schedules on them. I’ve been able to grab stacks of outdated magnets at the end of the year.

I keep similar dies together in categories. I just recently added to the categories when the new dies came last week. Now, I change my mind like the weather here in Chicago, but today I’m using the following:

Borders & Frames
Labels & Tags
Flowers & Nature
Food & Drink
Butterflies & Birds
Seasons
Feminine
Masculine
Accessories ~ another word for Misc.
Geometric (Includes Nestabilities by shape)

The 12″ border dies will hang out at the end of the box for now.The categories are separated by a thick piece of chipboard. On each magnet I have the die’s identification information. For my Design Team work I have to make a note of each product used. It’s so much easier for me to have that at my fingertips than to look it up later. I put the SKU, the die name, the type of die, and the number of pieces it has. For the regular die user, knowing which SKUs you own will keep you from buying duplicates of dies that look similar.

For dies that look very similar, and I’m talking to you, Mr. Nestability, I write on the back side of the die and also mark that on the label. I tried to remain consistant with the pen color. For the small Nestabilities, I used a red Sharpie marker, for the large, a purple. See the little scribbles?
That helps me put the sets back together when I’ve got dies spread all over the table. Just be careful that when you are wielding Sharpies, you are not wearing your favorite jeans. And be sure not to drop said Sharpie point down onto said favorite jeans. I’m just sayin’.

I am careful to put the dies back in their bags and in their categories so I can find them again, but I can’t say that for the rest of my art supplies. We will not be addressing the organization or lack thereof in my scrapbook room.

I do need to thank Cindy for keeping my feet warm while I type. You see, its raining out. Cindy doesn’t like rain and hides in the basement from it. She gravitated to the area under my desk, so we put a dog bed there. Now I have a foot warmer and I always know where she is during bad weather. Ok, sometimes she gets tired of the dog bed and sneaks onto the couch. She’s all about the cozy. But she would rather be outside playing.