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Foam Washi Tape Tutorial

Posted on March 6, 2014 by Shell Carman

Hi There!

Funky & graphic is a popular trend right now. I am really loving the idea of mixing some black with bright colours. Sometimes too much black can be too over powering so I have found stamping a great way to add some black too the mix without it looking too strong. Because I also love dimension I started thinking of ways of adding black stamping with dimension & came up with the idea to stamp directly onto some Crafty Foam Tape White .

First lay a strip of Crafty Foam Tape onto some Transparency Film

Use a good quality ink to stamp an image onto the Crafty Foam Tape

Too easy!

To put together the rest of my card I have used the E-Z Runner Permanent Strips Refillable to adhere some pattern paper onto cardstock

then layered some more patterned paper using the Crafty Foam Tape

The E-Z Runner Permanent Fine was perfect to adhere the vellum love note. 3D Foam Squares White Mix helped me add some more dimension & layers to my card

Here are a few closeups

Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L® Products Used
Crafty Foam Tape White E-Z Runner® Permanent Strips Refillable, 3D Foam Squares White Mix E-Z Runner Permanent Fine

Other Products Used
Crate Paper Maggie Holmes Style Board Paper, Ephemera, frame & Flair Button
Prima Stitch Stamp Lines
Mixed Media Inx ColorBox Black by Clearsnap

Thanks for looking!
Cheers
Shell Carman
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Create Beautiful Texture with Adhesive Sheets Tutorial

Posted on March 5, 2014 by Birgit Koopsen

Birgit Koopsen shares a fabulous tutorial to create beautiful texture with Adhesive Sheets by Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L® and embossing powder!

Create Beautiful Texture with Adhesive Sheet and Embossing Powder Tutorial by Birgit Koopsen for Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L

To create the background of these tags I used Adhesive Sheets and Ultra High Embossing Powder. The clear embossing powder creates a resist revealing the color that is underneath, which makes the embossed parts really stand out after spraying with darker colors.

Create Texture with Embossing Powder

Adhesive Sheets - Embossed Texture - step 1 - Birgit Koopsen for Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L

Start with a tag sprayed with 1 or 2 not-too-dark colors. Make sure the tag is really dry.

Adhesive Sheets - Embossed Texture - step 2 - Birgit Koopsen for Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L

Take (part of) an Adhesive Sheet, peel of the yellow liner sheet and randomly apply the adhesive to the tag. Go on until you have the desired amount of adhesive on the tag. The adhesive is clear and permanent.

Adhesive Sheets - Embossed Texture - step 3 - Birgit Koopsen for Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L

Adhesive Sheets - Embossed Texture - step 4 - Birgit Koopsen for Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L

Cover the tag with Clear Ultra High Embossing Powder and tap off the excess.

Adhesive Sheets - Embossed Texture - step 5 - Birgit Koopsen for Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L

Heat it with a heat tool until the embossing powder starts to melt and turns clear.

Adhesive Sheets - Embossed Texture - step 6 - Birgit Koopsen for Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L

Spray 1 or 2 darker colors right on top. Take off the excess paint with a paper towel. The spray will not stick to the embossed parts and the lighter color underneath will be revealed.

Adhesive Sheets - Embossed Texture - step 9 - Birgit Koopsen for Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L

Adhesive Sheets - Embossed Texture - step 10 - Birgit Koopsen for Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L

Of course this Wear Your Adhesive on the Outside technique is also perfect to create texture on any other project like cards, scrapbook pages, art journals and canvas.

Adhesive Sheets - Embossed Texture - step 11 - Birgit Koopsen for Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L

Finish the Tag

Use an Adhesive Sheet to cover the back of some clear glass pebbles. Apply the pebbles to patterned paper and cut them out. Put them on another Adhesive Sheet to create sticker pebbles that can be applied to the tag.

Adhesive Sheets - Embossed Texture - step 15 - Birgit Koopsen for Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L

Adhesive Sheets - Embossed Texture - step 16 - Birgit Koopsen for Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L

Die cut butterflies, outline them with a black and a white pen and apply them to the tag using Adhesive Dots Medium. Add ribbon and word stickers. The pom pom ribbon was applied with a strip of Crafty Power Tape, folded length wise.

Finished Tags with Texture

Pin it!

Birgit Koopsen Adhesive Sheet texture tags for Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L

Adhesive Sheets - Embossed Texture - final tags.detail1 - Birgit Koopsen for Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L

Adhesive Sheets - Embossed Texture - final tags.detail2 - Birgit Koopsen for Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L

Adhesive Sheets - Embossed Texture - step 12 - Birgit Koopsen for SAby3L_resize

Adhesive Sheets - Embossed Texture - step 13 - Birgit Koopsen for Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L

Thank you for stopping by and happy crafting!

Birgit Koopsen

Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L® supplies:

Adhesive Sheets 4×6″
Adhesive Dots Medium
Crafty Power Tape

Other Supplies:

Spray paints: Tattered Angels and Ranger Ink, Embossing Powder: WOW! Embossing Powder, Butterfly die, Pebbles and word stickers: Prima Marketing Inc., Patterned paper: Jillibean Soup

See Beth Pingry’s Artsy Tags, inspired by Birgit’s tutorial!

And check out Christine Meyer’s video tutorial for texture on a scrapbook page:

Create Colorful Backgrounds by Christine Meyer

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Video Tutorial: Wrapped Twine Card

Posted on March 4, 2014 by Tiffany Johnson

Hi Blogosphere! It’s Tiffany here today with another Video Tutorial.

This time I’ll be showing you how easy it is to make a Wrapped Twine Card using our Adhesive Sheets! You’ll also get a glimpse of our brand-new 3D Foam Butterflies!

Video Tutorial:

Close-up:

I bet you’re thinking of all sorts of ways to incorporate twine into your die-cutting projects! Easter is nearly here… How cute would this be for an Easter Egg Window? I think I’ll get on that 😉

Thanks so much for stopping by,

Supplies Used-

Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L® (Adhesive Sheets 4×6, 3D Foam Butterflies, 3D Foam Squares, Dodz™ Medium, MyStik® Permanent Strips)

Mini Round Gift Box

Posted on March 2, 2014 by Christine Emberson

Hi everyone, Christine here today with a decorated mini round gift box.

I’ve chosen pretty flowers because hopefully here in the UK Springtime is on its way! I selected a shop bought mini round gift box. It looks extremely boring and plain but not for long!

I cut a strip of paper – Basic Grey – RSVP and wrapped this around the base section of the box. I used E-Z Runner® Permanent Strips – Refillable to make sure it was adhered securely.

I then decided to have lace around the edge of the box lid, Crafty Power Tape is perfect to adhere lace. The tape comes in a handy refillable dispenser.

To decorate the top of my box I die cut a circle from the patterned paper – Spellbinders® Standard Circles LG

For dimension I applied 3D Foam Squares – White Regular to the reverse of my die cut and then placed this onto the box lid.

For decoration, I cut/embossed Spellbinders® Blooms Three from pale blue cardstock and attached them using 3D Foam Squares – White Small.

The finished mini round gift box.

Perfect for a gift of jewellery, gift vouchers, lottery tickets! Thank you for joining me today, have fun crafting with the brilliant Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L products.

Christine

Supplies used:

Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L: E-Z Runner® Permanent Strips – Refillable, Crafty Power Tape, 3D Foam Squares – White Regular, 3D Foam Squares – White Small

Spellbinders: Standard Circles LG, Blooms Three

Basic Grey: RSVP paper collection

Gift box, pearl, lace

Die Cutting and Embellishing 3D Foam Creative Sheets!

Posted on March 1, 2014 by Beth Pingry

Hi it’s Beth, today I have a new technique for 3D Foam Creative Sheets. These are pieces of our 3D Foam that are not cut, so that you and I can get creative! These 3D Foam Creative Sheets can be punched and die cut, and of course you can use scissors. Let me show you how I made this card.

First I die cut the white 3D Foam Creative Sheet (the pack of 2 comes with one white and one black sheet). You can see that it embosses the thin metal dies too!

Remove the top liner paper and brush on pigment powder.

When the surface is covered, stamp the sentiment onto the die cut.

For the large butterfly from the 3D Foam Gardens Shapes set, remove the liners from the inside of the design and add pigment powder.

Remove the rest of the liner and add a second color of pigment powder.

Next I added enamel dots to the butterfly, then assembled my card. I added antennae and lines with a pen.

Thanks!

Beth Pingry

Supplies Used:

Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L: 3D Foam Creative Sheets, 3D Foam Garden Shapes, Mounting Squares
A Jillian Vance Design: Charming Photos stamp and die set
Basic Grey: RSVP paper collection, Candy Buttons
Jacquard: Pearl Ex Pigment Powders
Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko: Stazon Jet Black ink
Kraft Cardstock, black pen

A Sunny Trip To Serengeti And a Tutorial

Posted on February 28, 2014 by Asia King

Hello everyone, Asia King here. Lovely to see you again and I am delighted to take you today on a trip to Serengeti! This is a gift I made for my friend’s daughter who absolutely adores elephants. Ok, let’s begin!

1. Prepare your cardstock for mats (various sizes in coordinating colours, whatever you have to hand), 6×6″ card blank, matching patterned papers and also plain-ish patterned papers (doesn’t matter what colour as they will be inked over). Gather a selection of distress inks and blending tools for your chosen colour scheme.

2. Ink up the patterned paper panel to match your chosen colour palette. Stamp some coffee mug rings using Stampendous clear stamps. Crinkle and distress the edges.

3. Mount a couple of mat/paper panels onto the card blank using E-Z Runner® Permanent Strips – Refillable, varying the angles slightly.

4. Stamp the elephant from the Serengeti stamp set twice onto a cream card and colour with your favourite medium (I used Spectrum Noir and Distress markers). Stamp the elephants again onto scrap paper and cut out the outlines. Use E-Z Dots® Repositionable at the back to help the mask stay in place whilst inking. Mask of the images and ink around to create a warm Serengeti setting.

5. Mat the image panel and embellish with Kraft Creative Photo Corners. This will be mounted over a piece of burlap. Cover the area that will go over the burlap with Crafty Power Tape. For the rest of the panel use black Thin 3D Foam Squares. Adhere all elements to the card.

6. Cover a handful of 3D Foam Pennants with the patterned papers and adhere to the card over a decorative ribbon to create a banner.

7. Use several DODZ™ – 3D to adhere additional embellishments.

8. Crumple a piece of 4×6″ Adhesive Sheet and partially remove the yellow protective layer. Dab the sticky side of the sheet randomly over the burlap and the rest of the card.

9. Sprinkle the adhesive with Taupe Colour Fragments. Press gently with your fingertips to help them adhere. Shake off the excess fragments.

10. Sprinkle a handful of 3D Foam Squares – White, Small with the Copper Micro Glitter. Add to the card as desired.

11. Decorate the inside of the card with patterned papers using E-Z Runner® Permanent Strips – Refillable. Add a Keepsake Envelope inside for a gift voucher.

And here is a picture of a box I decorated as well to hold the card as part of the gift set.

If you’d like to see some close up photos of the project, please pop over to my blog here. I hope you enjoyed this sunny trip. Thank you for visiting and I hope you have a wonderful weekend!

Supplies: E-Z Runner® Permanent Strips – Refillable, E-Z Dots® Repositionable, Kraft Creative Photo Corners, Crafty Power Tape, black Thin 3D Foam Squares, 3D Foam Pennants, DODZ™ – 3D, 4×6″ Adhesive Sheets, 3D Foam Squares – White, Small, Keepsake Envelopes, 3D Foam Leaves.

Other: Serengeti, Coffee Mug & Vintage Lowercase clear stamps, cling Crowscape, Taupe Colour Fragments, Copper Micro Glitter (all Stampendous);

Cardstock and papers (Ambrosia collection) – Bazzill Basics; Distress Inks various colours (Ranger Ink); crinkly ribbon (May Arts); flowers (Prima Marketing).

Big crafty hugs

Happy Spring!

Posted on February 27, 2014 by Ashley Harris

Hey there everyone! Ashley here with you today. Many of you are wondering when spring will be here. Well, I am lucky enough to live in sunny AZ where winter never officially started. So our grass is green and it will be a lovely high of 82 today. With that in mind I though maybe I’d bring some spring to you! I created this lovely pocket page project to help you out with the winter woes.

So let’s get started!

First take a die cut card and stamp your sentiment and add the Happy from the 3D Foam Easter Shapes. Glitter the Happy to give it an extra shine.

Next add grass. I used fringe scissors to make the grass and adhered it with Crafty Power Tape.

Then I added butterfly shapes from the 3D Foam Butterflies. I covered two with silver foil.

I then heat embossed the third butterfly and added the final touches. Voila!

There you have a Happy Spring card ready for your pocket pages!

Have a great day!

Ashley Harris

Supplies:

Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L®: 3D Foam Butterflies, 3D Foam Happy Easter, Crafty Power Tape

Other Supplies: Cardstock: My Favorite Things; Steel Die: Technique Tuesday; Clear Stamp: Avocado Arts; Embossing Powder: Zing American Crafts; Foil: Martha Stewart Crafts

Gold Foil Debossing with Adhesive Sheets

Posted on February 25, 2014 by Kimberly Crawford

Hello! Kimberly here today, with gold foil, again. I cannot help myself. Its just so pretty! And today’s technique is pretty cool and easy to achieve when you use 4×6 Adhesive Sheets from Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L!

Knowing that I wanted to emboss a banner shape into my cardstock (and eventually fill it with gold), I die cut a banner three times from a piece of backing from a stamp set. (Yay to using what I had laying around!) Then I adhered them together using E-Z Runner Permanent Strips Refillable.

Once the pieces were all stacked together, I used it to emboss my cardstock. I placed the banner piece onto my base plate and my cardstock over the top. Then I passed it through my manual die cutting machine, with my embossing mat and plates. And you can see the impression left behind. (Note: this is the embossed side in the image. I flipped my cardstock over and used the debossed side for my project.)

I wanted to fill my debossed space with gold foil, which is really where this whole crazy idea started from. I knew that if I die cut a piece of a 4×6 Adhesive Sheet with the banner die template, I would have the exact same image!

I peeled away the yellow backing and placed the adhesive side down into my debossed banner image.

Before I peeled away the white backing to reveal the adhesive, I gently rubbed the white backing to ensure that the adhesive was completely on the cardstock. I placed the foil over the adhesive repeatedly until I achieved my desired coverage.

Here is a close up look. I think its pretty cool! Imagine the possibilities! All your die templates could be used for this technique! Along with glitter, flock, and any other medium you can apply to your Adhesive Sheets!

thanks for stopping by!

Kimberly Crawford

Supplies: Adhesives-Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L (4X6 Adhesive Sheets, E-Z Runner Permanent Strips Refillable, 3D Foam Squares White Regular), Stamps, Die Templates, Ink-Avery Elle (Thanks a Bunch stamps, Build A Banner Elle-ments, Ink), Cardstock-MFT

Spring Card with Paper Scraps

Posted on February 22, 2014 by Stephanie Schütze

Hi there,

it’s Stephanie here today with a easy Card for Spring with a paper flower you can create with small leftovers from scrapbook paper.

It goes really quick and clean and you need not much supplies.

Take some leftovers from scrapbook paper, a scissors and cardstock.

Cut out small pieces of paper for the petals.

Crumple them in your hand.

Distress the edges of the petals with Distress Ink.

Use the E-Z Permanent Dots Refillable to adhere the petals. Adhere only the ends of the petals. The petals should be possible to separate itself to some.

Put some twine between them, which creates a lovely movement.

Use a half-pearl for the center of the bloom.

Now have some fun with watercolor. Paint the stem of the flower and sprinkle a little bit.

Finish the flower with a black and white pen to emphasize the edges and the petals. Add your sentiment. I used Rub-ons and put it on the leaf.

I used:

Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L E-Z Dots® Permanent – Refillable
white Cardstock
Scraps from paper “Decorative” from Delight Collection – Prima Marketing
Distress Ink “vintage photo” – Tim Holtz Ranger
Pearl “Trinkets & Baubles” from Melissa Frances
Rub-on “Words” – Tim Holtz idea-ology
Neocolor II
Black Pen from Faber Castell, White Pen from Signo

Thanks for visiting today!

Altered Projects with Textured Tissue Paper

Posted on February 21, 2014 by Angela Ploegman

Hello blog readers! It’s Angela here today sharing a trio of projects I created for the Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L®’s booth at the recent Craft and Hobby Association (CHA) trade show.

Altered Projects with Textured Tissue Paper by Angela Ploegman The third item was a Mother’s Day card:

Altered Projects with Textured Tissue Paper by Angela Ploegman I have posted a tutorial on using tissue paper with sheet adhesive to create a textured background like on the card above previously. You can find that post HERE. But what was fun was discovering how you can modify the technique for use on 3D objects.

For example, the photo frame:

Altered Projects with Textured Tissue Paper by Angela Ploegman For this project, I painted a inexpensive frame white with acrylic paint and let dry. I applied an Adhesive Sheet 12×12″ to the front and edge of the frame and adhered strips of tissue paper in varying shades of purple. I used a brayer to securely attach the tissue paper. Then I applied a second Adhesive Sheet to the purple tissue paper and applied a white piece of tissue paper over the top to soften the ombre look. The seams between the strips of purple were hidden behind floral trim attached with Crafty Power Tape – 20′ in Dispenser and embellished with purple paper flowers adhered with DODZ Adhesive Dots Small.

For the keepsake box, I measured the box dimensions and cut strips to match from an Adhesive Sheet 12×12″ to cover the side of the paper mache box and lip of the lid. The Adhesive Sheet was used in the traditional way on the circular lid of the box. A medallion of stacked 3D Foam Hearts covered in glitter and silver micro beads embellish the top of the lid. Two decorative trims were layered and attached to the lip of the lid with Crafty Power Tape 20′ in Dispenser.

Altered Projects with Textured Tissue Paper by Angela Ploegman

I love how the textured tissue paper adds some old world charm to these alterables. I hope my mom likes her Mother’s Day present!

Angela Ploegman

Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L® products used: Adhesive Sheets 12×12″, Crafty Power Tape 20′ in Dispenser, DODZ Adhesive Dots Small, 3D Foam Hearts, 3D Foam Squares White, Regular

Other products used: Maya Road trim (cream), misc. trim (silver, floral and purple), Ranger and EK Success glitter, EK Success microbeads, Tim Holtz drawer pull, Paper Studio rhinestones, Tsukineko Staz-On Ink, Lawn Fawn stamp, Lawn Fawn (alphabet) and Spellbinders (scalloped heart) dies

See Other Tissue Paper Projects:

You’re a Rare Find

Sewing Box

Altered Purse