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Watercolor and Negative Space (and 3D Foam Hearts)!

Posted on May 7, 2014 by Angela Ploegman

Hello blog readers! It’s Angela here today and I’m sharing 2 of my recent obsessions-watercolors and negative space! See both on this card below:

I love how watercolors blend so organically in a background and wanted to ensure that color was the star on this card! So, in order to keep the focal point on the swatch of color, I die cut the sentiment from a 3D Foam Heart, removed the letters and adhered to the card base before covering in glitter! So easy! Here’s a close up of the focal point:

I got so excited playing, I created a second card using the same concepts:

The big difference here is I used an Adhesive Sheet – 4×6″ and first die cut a circle shape, and then in a second cut, die cut the sentiment. The adhesive was applied to the card center and then gold leaf was applied. The bottom panel was cut from watercolor paper (that I made myself!) and adhered with E-Z Runner® Permanent Strips Refillable.

So much fun! I hope you are inspired to play with your adhesives (and other supplies!) today!

Angela

Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L® supplies used: 3D Foam Hearts, Adhesive Sheet – 4×6″, E-Z Runner® Permanent Strips Refillable

Other Supplies Used: Spellbinders Paper Arts and Paper Smooches dies, Martha Stewart for EK Success gold leaf, Peerless watercolor papers, Ranger Distress Ink reinkers, Strathmore and Ranger watercolor paper, Ranger glitter

Thank You Card

Posted on May 5, 2014 by Erica Houghton

Today we are so very excited to introduce a new addition to our Design Team, Erica Houghton! Please join me in welcoming Erica!

Hi!! My name is Erica Houghton and I’m very excited to be joining the Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L® Design Team! My husband and I live outside of Washington DC in Stone Ridge, Virginia. When I’m not working or sitting in traffic you can find me in my studio creating, curled up with a good book, headed out the door for a run, or traveling.

My paper crafting style is shabby-chic – I love glitter, rhinestones, and anything that has glitz, glamour and a lot of sparkle. I’m totally addicted to patterned paper so I’ve resorted to using lots of layers in order to use all of the wonderful papers that come in each collection. I never feel my projects are complete until I’ve added flowers, ribbon and machine stitching. I enjoy creating a variety of projects including layouts, cards, tags, off the page projects and a mini album every now and then.

In addition to creating for various design teams I also enjoy teaching classes at LSS’s because I love sharing my passion for paper crafting with others.

Alright enough about me! Today I’m sharing a card I created using several Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L products as well as the Romance Novel collection by Prima Marketing.

Thank You Card by Erica Houghton for Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L

Adhesives

Paper

Prima, Romance Novel

Embellishments

Prima, Romance Novel – alphabet stickers
Dusty Attic – scroll border #3
Prima – flowers
Celebrate It – ribbon
Studio His & Her – tulle

Products

Ranger Ink – Tim Holtz – distress ink
Golden – gesso

Thanks for joining me today!

Erica Houghton

Thank You Tag

Posted on May 3, 2014 by Christine Emberson

Hello, Christine here today to share with you a clean and simple tag.

Take a piece of Crafty Power Tape and place a strip along near the bottom of your tag.

Sprinkle with WOW! Embossing Powder, shake off excess and heat set.

The tape allows for a perfect line of embossing.

Cut a piece of patterned paper to fit the tag and adhere with E-Z Dots® Pe rmanent. I used DCWV – Juniper Berry.

Attach ribbon from May Arts with another piece of Crafty Power Tape, tie a piece of bakers twine with a bow. The die cut sentiment is Spellbinders® Celebration.

And it is complete – a tag suitable for a lady or gentleman.

Thank you for joining me today, remember there are so many uses for Crafty Power Tape – wear your adhesive on the outside!

Christine

You’re Amazing – Mixed Media Video Tutorial

Posted on May 1, 2014 by Asia King

Happy May Day everyone! Asia King here. Today I am sharing a video tutorial for this altered wooden vanity box. I’m going to show a dry decoupage technique with Adhesive Sheets and how to use your favourite adhesives in a mixed media project. I will be using Dodz™ Small, Medium and 3D as well as Creative Photo Corners – White.

Here is the video tutorial:

And here are additional views of the box.

Supplies:

Adhesive Sheets 6×12″, Dodz™ Small, Medium and 3D, Creative Photo Corners – White;

Stampendous Ice Blue Micro Glitter and Stamps Angel Wings Stack Art & Quotes; Americana DecoArt acrylic paints (Pink Chiffon, Spa Blue, Tropical Blue, White) and Medieval Iron Accent Stencil; Faber-Castell Whipped Spackle; Tsukineko Blue Hawaii StazOn;

wooden vanity box, decorative napkins, flowers and embellishments.

I hope you enjoy watching the tutorial. Thanks for stopping by!

A Mother’s Day Window Box Card

Posted on April 30, 2014 by Kelly Klapstein

Hello everyone! It’s Kelly Klapstein here today, and I’m getting ready for Mother’s Day!

Here is a 3D card I designed for my own mother, and I think she will like it because she loves flowers and butterflies.

With the help of some pretty 3D Foam Butterflies and 3D Foam Garden Shapes, I created a card that helps me to believe that spring is really here.

To let you see how this card came together, here is a short photo tutorial.

First, I used my Crafty Power Tape to adhere my die cut card pieces together.

To make the grass in the window box, I cut two shades of green card stock and then layered the grass inside the window box using Crafty Foam Tape.

I sprinkled the 3D Foam Garden Shapes flowers with orange and yellow glitter in two steps.

After adding the orange glitter, I removed the interior backing pieces of the flower centers and sprinkled on the yellow glitter.

Then I lifted out my entire flower and adhered it to a blade of card stock grass.

I altered the 3D Foam Butterflies with purple glitter and added them to the grass tips as well.

To UN-stick the backs of the the 3D Foam flowers and butterflies, I just rubbed the backs of them with a little more glitter.

To create my Happy Mother’s Day banner, I simply layered two pieces of card stock with Crafty Foam Tape.

My banner and interior blue card stock piece were adhered with the E-Z Squares™ Refillable.

It’s that easy! With the right adhesives and 3D Foam Designer Shapes, card-making is a breeze!

Happy Crafting!

Kelly Klapstein (Visit my blog at www.kellycreates.ca)

SUPPLIES: Canadian Scrapbooker Super Stock(white); Core’dinations Colorcore Card Stock; die and die cut machine; Clearsnap Glitter; Westcott Scissors and Trimmer.

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Thanks

Posted on April 29, 2014 by AJ Otto

Hello, AJ here with another card using Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L products!

I am constantly in need of thank you’s lately, so I am trying to build my stash up so I am not up in my craft space creating like a mad woman at the last minute! You know how that goes. 😉To start this card, I cut a section out of the middle of the pattern paper and then adhered the remaining pieces to the card base using E-Z Dots® Repositionable Refillable.

Once lined up where I want them, I stamp my sentiment.

Using the stars from the 3D Foam Party Shapes, I adhere them to my paper, remove the backing and cover with silver glitter.

I can now adhere my panels to my card front using Crafty Foam Tape. I did trim one piece down the middle instead. (Just another way to stretch your supplies 😉 Repeat with the other piece of paper and you are done!

enjoy!
🙂 AJ

Stamps- Simon Says Stamp, Patterned paper- Simple Stories; Black ink- Fun Stampers Journey; Stampendous glitter

Merci Tag – Texture with Adhesive Sheets and Die Cuts

Posted on April 28, 2014 by Beth Pingry

Happy May Day! It’s Beth here with a textured tag tutorial that’s perfect for Spring!

Here’s a quick tutorial – it’s so easy!

First die cut desired shapes from cardstock or chipboard. I used chipboard then added some paint on top to neutralize the darker color. (This isn’t the order I did it, so follow the written instructions – I always figure out an easier way while I’m doing it the hard way!)

Trim the die cuts and adhere them to the tag, I used E-Z Squares®. Cover the tag with an Adhesive Sheet and burnish it down with your fingers. Remove the liner to reveal the adhesive covered tag, then crumple up a sheet of tissue paper and lay it onto the tag. The more wrinkles, the more texture!Next, burnish the tissue into the adhesive, so that the entire tag is covered, then trim or tear the excess. I placed the die cuts slightly off the edges and used scissors to trim.

Now for the messy, I mean fun part – color! I spritzed 4 different colors onto the tag, making sure that I covered the tag. Impatient like me? Go ahead and use a heat gun to dry it quickly. Tip: I keep the yellow liners from Adhesive Sheets for other projects!

Here I moved some 3D Foam Hearts and a 3D Foam Butterfly to an extra liner, removed the top sheets and the centers of the butterfly, then added pink glitter.

I removed the rest of the butterfly and added blue glitter.

Next stamp a sentiment, add the 3D Foam Hearts and 3D Foam Butterfly, a ribbon and some hand drawn lines and bubbles. I inked the edges with green chalk ink. The sky’s the limit here on embellishing.

Thanks for coming by! Stay tuned for Saturday, National Scrapbook Day, for giveaways you don’t want to miss! Coming up next week we have some extra special announcements too!

Beth Pingry

I used these supplies:

Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L®: Adhesive Sheets 4 x 6“, E-Z Squares®, 3D Foam Hearts, 3D Foam Butterflies
A Jillian Vance Design: {Die}namic Duo die, Many Thanks Stamp Set
May Arts Ribbon: Large Ric-Rac
Sparkle N’ Sprinkle: Fascination and Princess Rose Glitters
ClearSnap: ColorBox Mixed Media Inx Black, Mint Green Fluid Chalk Ink
Tattered Angels: Glimmer Mists -Blue Skies, Meadow Green, Lavender Fields, Cranberry Zing
Silver Sharpie Pen, Black Pen, Tag, die cut machine

Glittered Die Cuts

Posted on April 26, 2014 by Latisha Yoast

Latisha here with you today. I am sharing a tutorial, on how to use “alphabet die cuts” and turn them into glittered stickers.

1. First, trim down a piece of Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L Adhesive Sheets (4×6). I like to trim my pieces down to size, because I love this product and do not like to waste one little piece.

2. Place cardstock over the adhesive.

3. Since I want the adhesive to be on top of the die cut, and not the bottom, because we are adding the glitter to the top, and not making it a typical cardstock sticker. I am placing the cardstock face down, and the Adhesive Sheet facing up, then adding the dies on top, before diecutting.

4. I want a rainbow/ombre effect, so I am going to only peel down the Adhesive Sheet a little at a time, adding a different color every time I pull it down farther.

5. I repeated this process, until I had red, orange and yellow glitter onto my diecuts.

6. I want my stickers to have a little bit of depth, so I am adding Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L Crafty Foam Tape (white) to the back of my die cuts.

7. I didn’t want to create a bow, or have my ribbon knotted, so I added Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L Crafty Power Tape, to the back of my ribbon, an adhered it to the card & trimmed the excess with scissors.

8. Before I adhered my letters to the card, I stamped the sentiment in black ink, applied the die cuts, and added a little bit of twine to pull it all together. This technique can be used with any kind of die cut, not just letters.

Materials Used:

Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L Crafty Foam Tape (white)

Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L Crafty Power Tape

Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L Adhesive Sheets (4×6)

Lawn Fawn dies

Avery Elle stamps

white cardstock

black ink

red, orange & yellow glitter

gingham trim

red bakers twine

Layout – Let Your Dreams Fly High

Posted on April 22, 2014 by Stephanie Schütze

Hi there, it’s Stephanie here today with a layout.

It’s about the third birthday of my daughter, where she is riding a pony for the first time. She was so happy about it. We spent a really gorgeous day at a children’s zoo.

My Journaling is behind the little card on the left side and this card is in Keepsake Envelope from Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L^®. I put also some lovely sequins in it.

To adhere the papers, cards and ribbons I used the E-Z Dots® Permanent – Refillable

The little Butterflies and the sentiment are stamps from the new spring stamp set “Let your dreams fly high” I designed for Whiff of Joy.

Supplies from Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L^®

E-Z Dots® Permanent – Refillable

Keepsake Envelope

Other Supplies I used:

Stamps “Let your dreams fly high” Stephanie Schütze Design from Whiff of Joy

All about me Paper “Celebrate with me” from Prima Marketing

ATC Cards “Insta Scraps” from Leeza Gibbons Prima Marketing

Ribbons from Maya Roads

Embellishments Decorative Buttons “Daily Stories” from Teresa Collins

Vellum Shapes “Oh Darling” from Crate Paper

Thanks for visiting today!

Stephanie

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Create Your Own Roller Stamp!

Posted on April 21, 2014 by Angela Ploegman

Hello blog readers! It’s Angela here today and I’m sharing a card that I created using the 3D Foam Cupcake shapes:

Create Your Own Roller Stamp! Celebrate Card by Angela Ploegman Can you see how I used the shape in 2 different ways? One is the focal point and the other is the clear embossed image in the background. Let me show you how I did both!

Instructions:

1. Adhere approximately 6 3D Foam Cupcake shapes to a toilet paper roll.

Create Your Own Roller Stamp! Celebrate Card by Angela Ploegman 2. Remove the protective backing from the shapes and ink them with an embossing ink. Insert a wooden dowel into the toilet paper roll and use it to apply the custom roller stamp to the patterned paper.

Create Your Own Roller Stamp! Celebrate Card by Angela Ploegman 3. Sprinkle with clear embossing powder, shake off excess and heat to set.

Create Your Own Roller Stamp! Celebrate Card by Angela Ploegman

4. Using the MyStik® Permanent Strips, adhere the patterned paper to a card base.

Create Your Own Roller Stamp! Celebrate Card by Angela Ploegman

5. Cut a double sided banner strip from a coordinating pattern paper and adhere to the card base. Stamp the sentiment using StazOn (or similar) ink.

Create Your Own Roller Stamp! Celebrate Card by Angela Ploegman

6. Die cut a circle and scalloped circle window from patterned paper. Inset the circle (you could layer, if you prefer) and adhere to the card base with the MyStik® Permanent Strips.

Create Your Own Roller Stamp! Celebrate Card by Angela Ploegman 7. Remove the backing and cover the bottom of the 3D Foam Cupcake shape and the icing shadow in light green glitter. Remove the icing backing and pipe on the icing, using a 3D glitter fabric paint. Insert the cherry shape, allowing the fabric paint to overlap slightly. Let the fabric paint dry.

8. Remove the rest of the backing from the cupcake base and cover with gold glitter. Cover the cherry with red glitter and the stem with brown glitter. I use a craft knife to cut the baking on the shape and peel the pieces one at a time for each color of glitter needed. Adhere finished cupcake to card base.

Create Your Own Roller Stamp! Celebrate Card by Angela Ploegman Here’s a close up of the focal point:

Create Your Own Roller Stamp! Celebrate Card by Angela Ploegman I love it when an idea comes together!

Angela

Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L® Supplies used: 3D Foam Cupcakes, MyStik® Permanent Shapes

Other Supplies Used: Basic Grey patterned paper, EK Success glitter, Lawn Fawn Riley ABCs alphabet stamps, Tsukineko StazOn ink, Ranger Clear embossing powder, Tulip 3D glitter fabric paint, Bazzill Basics Paper card stock, Spellbinders dies.