May Your Christmas Be Sparkly

Posted on November 15, 2013 by Ashley Harris

I know, early right? Well not really. There is only 1 month and 10 days until the BIG DAY!! Crazy!! Today I thought I would share another fun card with you. Here you go:

This card is beyond simple to make. Here are the step by step instructions.

1. Make your card from cardstock and stamp sentiment in two colors.

2. Remove the top of the 3D Foam Snowflakes and apply fine glitter.

3. Remove the 3D Foam Snowflakes and adhere them into a Keepsake Envelope.

4. Add a few sequins to the mix and seal the envelope to finish!

Super fun and easy! Enjoy!

Ashley Harris

Supplies:

Cardstock: Bazzill Basics

Clear Stamps: Technique Tuesday

Dye Ink: Memento, Close To My Heart

Adhesives:

A Wintery Christmas Card

Posted on November 13, 2013 by Kelly Klapstein

Hello Everyone!

It’s Kelly here today to share a Christmas card with you. I don’t know where you live, but in northern Canada right now, we already have lots of that white stuff *snow*, and that is why I was inspired to create this card.

Winter might not be my favourite season, but I do love creating Christmas cards and layouts! Here are the supplies I used:

To begin, I dry embossed plain white card stock with a Spellbinders wood grain embossing folder.

Using my E-Z Runner™ Permanent Dots adhesive, I attached this white embossed piece to my card base.

To create the winter scene, I adhered a 3D Foam Frame to a piece of patterned paper and then heat embossed it with Stampendous Shabby Blue Embossing Enamel.

After a few moments of cooling off, I cut out the Frame and prepared to design my winter scene.

First I made the snowy hills by cutting 3 wavy strips of white card stock and adhering them to the inside bottom edge of the frame.

Then I added the other Designer Shapes: 3D Foam Trees and one 3D Foam Star.

I dumped white glitter onto the trees and silver glitter onto the star, rubbing in, then brushing off excess.

The Crafty Power Tape helped attach my ribbon securely, and I placed one Adhesive Dots Medium behind the knot of the bow.

Finally, I stamped and heat embossed the sentiment “Celebrate” and adhered it with a strip of Crafty Foam Tape.

I just love the dimension the Foam Adhesives and Designer Shapes add to my card. It’s still flat enough to slide into a standard envelope and mail in the post.

I hope you are enjoying the winter season, either outdoors in the fresh air, or indoors in your cozy crafting space!

Kelly Klapstein (aka KellyCreates)

SUPPLIES: Spellbinders Embossing Folder; Lawn Fawn Papers; Bazzill card stock; Stampendous Ink, Embossing Powders and Glitter; May Arts Ribbon; Some Odd Girl Stamp Set; Westcott Trimmer and Scissors.

Season’s Greetings Card Set

Posted on November 12, 2013 by Latisha Yoast

Latisha here with you today. I am sharing how to make a cute gift card set using a few basic supplies.

First, I gathered my materials. The four card bases, are created from a single sheet of 12×12 paper. So make sure you grab a sheet of that.

Trim the paper and card stock: Card base 4×4 inches, Pattern Paper 3.75 x 3.75 inches, White Cardstock 3.25 x 3.25 inches, Pattern paper strip .5 x 3.25 inches. Round the right bottom corner on all of the square pieces.

Add Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L 3D Foam Squares and Classic Photo Corners – Kraft

Stamp images & sentiments. Then adhere the pattern paper strips using the E-Z Dots Permanent refillable dispenser.

Assemble the cards, and you have 4 cards ready to be packaged together as a gift, or sent away in the mail to friends and family.

Latisha Yoast

Materials Used: E-Z Dots® Permanent Refillable dispenser, 3D Foam Squares, Classic Photo Corners – Kraft, Lawn Fawn Pattern Paper, Lawn Fawn stamps, green cardstock, white cardstock, corner rounder, Gina K ink

Welcome To Our New Website!

Posted on November 11, 2013 by Beth Pingry

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Video Tutorial: A 2-Minute Christmas Card!

Posted on November 3, 2013 by Tiffany Johnson

Hi there! It’s Tiffany here with another video tutorial! With the holiday season right around the corner, this 2-minute Christmas card tutorial is perfect for you! You could easily recreate this card using different 3D Foam Designer Shapes and various sentiments!

Here’s the Video Tutorial:

https://youtu.be/RoNBDs5ofm8

I used the following Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L® Products:

3D Foam Snowflakes

E-Z Runner Permanent Strips

Thank so much for stopping by,

Additional Products: Lawn Fawn (Peace, Joy, Love Petite Paper Pack & Peace, Joy, Love Stamp Set), Martha Stewart Glitter (Marble), Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock (Marshmallow)

Season’s Greetings Card

Posted on November 1, 2013 by Beth Pingry

Now that it’s November, it’s time to get ready for the holidays! I’d put my tree up if my husband didn’t have a fit! So it’s much easier to work on cards than argue with him while we eat leftover Halloween candy, right?

So for today’s card I start with Season’s Greetings. It is super easy and fun, albeit a tad bit inky!

I inked watercolor paper, then stamped and heat embossed the tree and sentiment. The papers are stacked with 3D Foam Squares Mix White and Creative Photo Corners in kraft.

The watercolor paper, once it has been wet and dried, has a texture to it, and the 3D Foam Squares make it possible to keep that character while giving a permanent hold. I love photo corners the way they frame out images and focal point. They’re super easy to use and add a nice finished look!

I added a glittered 3D Foam Star to the top of the tree image to add some sparkle.

So, have you started making your holiday cards yet?

Beth Pingry

I used these Supplies:

Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L®: 3D Foam Squares Mix White, Creative Photo Corners Kraft, 3D Foam Stars
A Jillian Vance Design: Oh Christmas Tree stamp
Ranger Ink: Seafoam White EP, Distress Inks in Brushed Corduroy, Shabby Shutters, Crushed Olive, Peeled Paint
Clearsnap: Colorbox Frost White Pigment ink, Winter Frost Glitter
Watercolor paper, kraft and green cardstock

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Beautiful Metallic Leaves for Fall

Posted on October 31, 2013 by Kimberly Crawford

Welcome to the final day of the Clearsnap and Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L® blog hop! Be sure and check out all the posts from earlier this week with fantastic tips and design ideas!

Hello! Kimberly here again sharing how to create these gorgeous metallic-looking fall leaves. Something about gold and copper just makes me think fall and Thanksgiving. I can imagine a lot of possibilities with these beautiful leaves created with 3D Foam Leaves!

I started by using a piece of 12×12 paper for my card base. Then I adhered my other patterned paper layers with my E-Z Runner® Permanent Strips Refillable adhesive runner. Its my go-to basic adhesive.

My sentiment was trimmed from a piece of patterned paper. To give my card some dimension, I used 3D Foam Squares White Regular. I did not adhere the panel to my card yet though, because I wanted to be sure that the leaves I was about to adhere would work with it.

Tip: Leave the backing on your 3D Foam products until you are ready to adhere them to your project. It makes changing their placement easy until the design is exactly as you want.

Then I grabbed these gorgeous Designer Foils from Clearsnap. These are SO cool. They come in many colors and add amazing shine and color! And I knew they would make the 3D Foam Leaves amazing!

I started by placing my leaves on the project, leaving the top backing in place.

Then I removed the backing from one leaf and removed one of the Designer Foil sheets from its packaging. I gently placed a foil sheet over the top of the leaf and lifted up. On the right, you can see the foil on the leaf. It didn’t cover the entire surface, and that is ok, because that is what I wanted.

Over the same leaf, I placed a sheet of copper foil and lifted. The copper foil filled in all the empty white spots! You can see on the right how beautiful the effect is!

Tip: If you continue to have white spots showing, keep placing the foil over the top. You can gently press the foils down as well.

And there they are, all the beautiful leaves!

thanks for stopping by!

Kimberly Crawford

Supplies: Adhesives-Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L (3D Foam Leaves, 3D Foam Squares White Regular, E-Z Runner® Permanent Strips Refillable),

Designer Foils-Clearsnap (Gold, Copper), Patterned paper-DCWV (Linen Closet)

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Clearsnap Blog Hop Day 2-Fun Foiled Fall Card

Posted on October 29, 2013 by Angela Ploegman

Welcome to Day 2 of the Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L® and Clearsnap® Blog Hop! It’s Angela here sharing a Fun, Foiled, Fall Card (try saying that 3 times fast!).

Fun Foiled Fall Card by Angela Ploegman Here’s how you can make your own card at home:

1. Cut a 4 x 4 inch piece of water color paper. Make it wet. Pool 2-3 different orange/yellow Clearsnap Smooch Spritz inks onto a non porous surface and dip and swirl the water color paper into the inks. Let dry. Spray lightly with a brown color from the line.

Fun Foiled Fall Card by Angela Ploegman 2. Ink a textured background stamp with the Clearsnap ColorBox Archival Dye ink and apply to the watercolor paper.

Fun Foiled Fall Card by Angela Ploegman 3. Saturate the paper with Clearsnap Smooch Spritz-Sun Kissed or another transparent color (I added a few squirts of Cherry Ice for some red accents). Let dry.

Fun Foiled Fall Card by Angela Ploegman 4. Even though the paper looks too pretty to mess with any further, you want to take it up another notch by tearing some Adhesive Sheets – 4 x 6 into thin strips, peel off the backing and then apply the adhesive to the paper at random.

Fun Foiled Fall Card by Angela Ploegman 5. Lightly burnish the white backing and then remove-you’re going for an irregular appearance here, so don’t worry if not all the adhesive transfers to the textured watercolor paper. Apply the Clearsnap Designer Foil-Lucky Penny to the adhesive.

Fun Foiled Fall Card by Angela Ploegman 6. Burnish the foil thoroughly and remove the clear protective sheet.

Fun Foiled Fall Card by Angela Ploegman 7. Trim the square to 3.5 x 3.5 inches and die cut a leaf shape from the center.

Fun Foiled Fall Card by Angela Ploegman 8. Form a 4 x 4 inch card base from brown card stock. Using the E-Z Runner® Permanent Strips Refillable, adhere a 3.5 x 3.5 square of cream card stock to the card base at a slight angle. Frame the die cut and the outer edge of the die cut square of watercolor paper with 3D Foam Squares (I like the small ones for this as I can hug the die cut image with them and get the watercolor paper to lie down better this way).

Fun Foiled Fall Card by Angela Ploegman 9. Attach the water color paper to the card base at a slight angle. Embellish with a wooden pennant containing a preprinted sentiment and a leaf from the 3D Foam Leaves Designer Shapes collection covered with some more Designer Foil.

Fun Foiled Fall Card by Angela Ploegman

Voila! It’s that easy! I couldn’t let the beautiful die cut leaf shape go to waste, so I also created this fall place card using some burlap trim and die cut letters from another piece of watercolor paper as accents.

Fun Foiled Fall Card by Angela Ploegman Love, love, LOVE this technique-the foil and Adhesive Sheets work so well together!

Remember, we’re blog hopping with Clearsnap this week! Comment on each post this week to win a fabulous prize pack from Scrapbook Adhesive by 3L®! Then head over to the Clearsnap blog to see their projects and comment for a 2nd chance to win!

Angela

Scrapbook Adhesive by 3L® Supplies Used:

Clearsnap® Supplies Used: Designer Foils (Lucky Penny), ColorBox Archival Inks (Mudslide and Fireberry), Smooch Spritz® Pearlescent Sprays (Sun Kissed, Log Cabin, Cherry Ice, Carrot Cake, Gingersnap and Gold Glow)

Other Supplies Used: Bazzill Basics Card Stock (brown, cream), Studio 490 by Wendy Vecchi Background Stamp, Spellbinders Fall Foliage die set, Maya Road burlap trim, Tim Holtz for Sizzix Alphabet Die, Jillibean Soup wooden tag.

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Glittered Christmas

Posted on October 28, 2013 by Asia King

Hello there, Asia King here. Welcome to another crafty week and this week we’re having a fabulous blog hop with Clearsnap®.

With today’s project I am hoping to get into a festive mood and finally kick off my Christmas cards production. Have you started yours yet? 🙂

1. Mat your main decorative panel onto a black card and adhere with MyStik™ Permanent Strips Dispenser. My decorative panel was saved from one of the last year’s cards. And did you know that you can personalise your MyStik dispensers? Have a look at my post here to see how I decorated mine ;).

2. Cut a panel as big as your card blank and a smaller one. Distress your chosen papers from BasicGrey 25th & Pine collection using a Sparrow Mix’d Media Inx® Chox Inkpad and a blending tool.

3. Roll one of the corners on the large panel. Adhere your papers onto your card blank with MyStik dispenser.

4. Peel of the holy leaves and berries from the 3D Foam Christmas Shapes sheet and cover with Zoom Mess Free Glitter sheets and Clearsnap Chery Pie Designer Foils.

5. Add the holy cluster to the top right corner of the card.

6. Cover a couple of 3D Foam Pennants with the Cherry Pie foil.

7. Run the MyStik over the wooden banner shapes from the 25th & Pine collection and adhere along the right edge of the card together with the foil pennants.

8. Add Crafty Foam Tape to the back of the decorative panel. Adhere to the card.

9. Die cut a poinsettia flower from the patterned papers using Spellbinders Layered Poinsettia die set. Sponge some Sparrow ink through the die/stencil.

10. Distress the edges with ColorBox® Queties inks. Stack the layers with DODZ Adhesive Dots Small. Adhere the flower and leaves to the card with DODZ Adhesive Dots 3D.

11. Add glue glitter to the flower and the banner elements.

I hope you enjoyed this little tutorial :).

Now, would you like to get yourself an early Christmas pressie? If the answer is ‘yes’, then make sure to comment on each post this week for a chance to win a prize package of Scrapbook Adhesive by 3L® products. Then visit Clearsnap’s blog for even more inspiration!

MyStik Permanent Strips
3D Foam Pennants
3D Foam Christmas Mix
Crafty Foam Tape Black
Dodz Adhesive Dots Small
Dodz Adhesive Dots 3D

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let it snow! let it snow! let it snow!

Posted on October 25, 2013 by Kimberly Crawford

Hi, Kimberly here today. No, I am not wishing for snow, at all. But I have a certain little man at home who cannot wait for it to start falling. This is definitely a memory that needs to be recorded!

I grabbed the latest collection from Simple Stories, December Documented. Its Christmas themed, but knew I could create something with a winter feel once I added some 3D Foam Snowflakes.

To start, I cut out this border strip. It was the color I wanted and had snowflakes. Problem was, the holiday sentiment. No problem, I covered it up with my other page elements.

To adhere my other elements to the page, I used 3D Foam Squares White Regular. The larger squares work better on layouts. When adhering a larger piece like this, I use 8 squares, three down each side and two in the middle. I did the same thing for the photo.

Then I started working with the 3D Foam Snowflakes. Once I carefully removed them from their backing, I placed them on an extra backing sheet. I never throw these away, as they are the perfect place to set pieces while you are waiting to adhere them to your project.

Embossing powder was generously poured over each 3D Foam Snowflake. The excess was tapped off and placed back in the jar. Then a heat tool was used to melt the powder. The shapes will curl and bend a bit from the heat, but not to worry, as they lay beautifully once you adhere them to your project.

The small dots from the 3D Foam Snowflakes work brilliantly for small accents. To add a softer feel, I covered these dots with Fun Flock. A small bit was pinched onto each dot. Then I pressed the flock down and removed the excess. Fun Flock is messy. You will need to blow away and sweep away the excess. The portion you want to stay in place, will however.

thanks for stopping by!

Kimberly Crawford

Supplies: Adhesives-Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L (3D Foam Snowflakes, 3D Foam Squares White Regular, E-Z Runner® Permanent Strips Refillable), Patterned paper-Simple Stories (December Documented), Embossing Powder-my stash (this stuff is older than my son), Fun Flock-Stampendous!, Cardstock-WorldWin

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