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My Brag Book-Let’s try it again

Posted on March 20, 2012 by Leica Forrest

Thanks for joining me today. I posted a blog post during our fun Fancy Pants blog hop, and I guess photobucket just decided not to let me share some of my images. So I am going to redo it today with lot’s of photos. fingers crossed.a couple images repeat, but I think you will be glad you stayed for the ride. 🙂

When I was creating this brag book I focused on sharing how versatile the Adhesive Sheets were. (My preference being the 12×12 size). There is no adhesive out there that compares to how flawless they adhere things and as well to being completely hidden. I use them for EVERY single transparency, vellum and photos.

Let’s begin with how to adhere the Adhesive Sheets to the transparency. At one end of the sheet is a little 1/2″ strip that peels off. I peel that off and then line up on the pp as best as I can. This is going to determine how well you cover the page.

When adhering it, make sure you slowly unroll the adhesive, rubbing the whole way to try and avoid air bubbles.

Once you are done, rub it all over to make sure the adhesive has adhered. You can see, I do have a few wrinkles along the bottom, just make sure you give a little extra rub.

Now let’s adhere it to the Kraft book. Yes! You can adhere it to coloured paper and still have the flawless coverage as you would if you put it on white.

When I cover transparencies, I ALWAYS cover the entire 12x 12 even though I know I might not need it. In this case I only needed 2/3 of the transparency, but it is super easy just to get it done at the same time. Now I have extra ready to go to decorate in the album.

Taking some of that extra,

I took my EK Success flower punch and punched some flowers. Don’t be rough as the transparencies could get stuck in the punch, just be firm.

Now see, you can’t see it at all on the photo page protectors. It makes it so easy to jazz up an ordinary photo holder album.

Now I want to show you a few more pages of this album. It’s a work in progress, my plan is to add photos from birth to ? (whenever it fills) featuring some of our faves over the years.

For the following page, I just needed to use my MyStik Permanent adhesive as it was just paper on paper application. Quick & Easy. You will notice that all the cardstock I’m using is Core’dinations. If the embossed pattern is large, I switch and use my Crafty Power Tape as it is a little more flexible to get in the grooves with a stronger hold as well.

This was fun decorating the pockets.

This page was created to some of the kids teeth. The different sizes of the Keepsake Envelopes is so AWESOME!!!! Perfect for small items like this.
I also know I want to put my favourite images on a disk so that we never lose them, so I made the inside back cover special and decorated it. That is my favourite thing about our CD holders, is that they have extra room to customize them.

Thanks for sticking around for this long post. I had so much fun making it and I hope you walk away feeling comfortable to try the little “Extras” that Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L makes. I find that is one thing they rock at, making adhesives perfect for all the different tasks.

Leica Forrest

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A Purse Card with Keepsake Envelopes Tutorial

Posted on March 19, 2012 by Beth Pingry

I was thinking about the Keepsake Envelopes, and the different sizes they come in, and how I like the way the flap looks…and then I figured out they looked like a purse! So I pulled together some Fancy Pants Designs papers and went to work!

Purse Card Tutorial

Each Keepsake Envelope package comes with a variety of shapes and sizes, and they are self adhesive on the back side with a resealable flap:

For this card I used the 2 x 5″ Keepsake Envelope. I trimmed patterned paper to fit inside, then trimmed another piece to match the flap, and adhered it to the floral paper with MyStik™ Permanent Strips. I slid them in and sealed the Keepsake Envelope.

Punch small holes at the two sides, and feed a spiral of wire through the holes.

Add some bling and a stamp a greeting, and layer it all onto patterned paper and cardstock with Thin 3D Foam Squares for dimension.

It’s super fast and super easy and I still have several more Keepsake Envelopes in the package to use!

These are my supplies:

SCRAPBOOK ADHESIVES BY 3L™: Keepsake Envelopes – Assorted, MyStik™ Permanent Strips, Thin 3D Foam Squares – Black
Fancy Pants Designs: Spring Fever and Bird Cage from It’s The Little Things Collection
Beadalon: Artistic Wire – Gold, Coiling Gizmo
Want2Scrap: Gold Bling
WorldWin Papers: Cardstock
Flourishes: Taglines Stamp
Clearsnap: Colorbox Fluid Chalk Ink – Chestnut Roan

Thank you!

Beth Pingry

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It’s the Little Things Frame and Blog Hop!

Posted on March 8, 2012 by Beth Pingry

I love the colors and patterns in the “Its the Little Things” collection from Fancy Pants Designs. Black was incorporated into the designs so nicely, it’s great to have papers with black patterns!

This framed piece came together so quickly and easily! The patterned label was part of the set, and the word Love is from the Glitter Cuts, a glittered transparency design sheet. I adhered Love with SCRAPBOOK ADHESIVES BY 3L MyStik™ Permanent Fine Adhesive, you can’t see the adhesive through the word!

I mounted the label onto cardstock with MyStik™ Permanent Strips, then onto Headed South paper, then cardstock again. I added the Photo Corners-Classic Black because I love photo corners, and I think they help frame out the piece.

The flowers were created using Spellbinders Bitty Blossoms die template with Spring Fever, Shuffle, and Four Birds papers, the leaves from Honeysuckle. I rolled the flowers around the handle of a paintbrush then adhered them with Dodz™. I curled the leaves for dimension and added 3D Foam Squares below the bends to keep the dimension. A little bling and it’s done!

Supplies:

SCRAPBOOK ADHESIVES BY 3L: MyStik™ Permanent Strips, MyStik™ Permanent Fine Adhesive, Dodz™ 3D, 3D Foam Squares, Photo Corners – Classic Style, Black

Fancy Pants Designs: It’s the Little Things Collection, papers and Glitter Cuts

Spellbinders™ Grand Calibur® Machine and S5-086 Bitty Blossoms

WorldWin Papers: Kraft Cardstock

Want2Scrap: Say it With Bling

Clearsnap: Colorbox Creamy Brown Fluid Chalk Ink

Thanks!!

Beth Pingry

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My Brag Book

Posted on March 6, 2012 by Leica Forrest

I simply {{ADORE}} Fancy Pants! This company always has such elegant papers and embellishments. When I received the Summer’s End paper line, I was simply excited cause I knew that their Brag Book and this line would become one of my favourite projects. What better than a conglomeration of favourite photos with tidbits of info. Perfect.

My favourite Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L product EVER is the Adhesive Sheets. They are a staple in my book. I use them for most of my projects. Now, would you have thought that you would get such a neat result by putting the transparency over kraft? Almost always I put it over a light coloured cardstock. But this time, I thought let’s put the adhesive to the test! Would you be able to see any traces of it????
I started out with the Fancy Pants transparency, a 12×12 Adhesive Sheet. I peeled off one edge and lined it up on the transparency and then slowly rolled back the protective coating and rubbed the adhesive onto the paper.

It will happen that you could get “wrinkles or lines” like I have a few. Rub them out with your hand. no big deal.

See the rest of this book tutorial here: My Brag Book – Lets try it Again

Thanks for stopping by!

Leica Forrest

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Its The Little Things Cards

Posted on March 6, 2012 by Beth Pingry

The fun folks at Fancy Pants are blog hopping with us this week! They provided the collection called “It’s the little things” for us to work with, and I can’t begin to tell you how much I love all the patterns in it!

Life has been crazy busy lately, but I never run out of the need for cards, so I’m sharing 2 quick and easy cards today, made from Fancy Pants and SCRAPBOOK ADHESIVES AND 3L™ products.

Both cards use Keepsake Envelopes, for the first one I positioned the smallest Keepsake Envelope, which is about 2 x 2”, over part of a pattern of hearts. It has adhesive on the back side, which allowed me to create a background inside the envelope. I trimmed the ticket, added the Live Laugh Love rub-on. I cut off the envelope flap then trimmed a small piece of that to cover the adhesive on the front of the envelope, to make it a pocket instead of a closed envelope.

The Glitter Cuts flower border is adhered with MyStik™ Permanent Fine adhesive and the papers are adhered MyStik Permanent Strips. The Keepsake Envelope had Thin 3D Foam Squares to give it a little lift, which also makes the ticket have more lift off the card.

For the second card I cut a square of patterned paper to fit inside the Keepsake Envelope, then added the birdcage rub on, then sealed the Keepsake Envelope. I used a border sticker, more patterned paper and the rest of the rub on for the bird cage, as well as the phrase to complete this card.

These are the supplies I used:

SCRAPBOOK ADHESIVES BY 3L: Keepsake Envelopes, MyStik Permanent Strips, MyStik Permanent Fine, Thin 3D Foam Squares Black

Fancy Pants Designs: It’s the Little Things Collection Glitter Cuts, Element Stickers, Rub-ons, and patterned papers Feathered, Four Birds, ITLT Strips, Headed South, Shuffle

WorldWin Papers: Kraft Cardstock

Thanks!

Beth Pingry

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A Little Fancy Filing

Posted on March 2, 2012 by Vicki Chrisman

I’m so excited Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L and Fancy Pants are teaming up this month! What a great combo. I decided to create a little file folder holder re make for my desk, using ” It’s the little things” line from Fancy pants and MyStik™ Permanent Strips dispenser for my adhesive.

I truly love being able to make something old , new again, and that’s just what I did with this project. The file holder was headed for the trash, and the file folders were given to me to re-purpose from a friend who was about to toss them. They had “some” writing on them, but nothing that couldn’t be covered with some gorgeous papers:)

I used a MyStik Permanent strips adhesive to adhere my paper to the plastic file folder holder, and also to adhere my papers , and accent pieces to my file folders them selves. Now the refills even come in a Value Pack for even more savings for you. yay!

All of these awesome “Journal Embellishments” from this line, made great additions to all of my file folder fronts. I’ll be writing file names on them to keep things organized.

I always love using Thin 3D Foam Squares to adhere buttons to my projects. Works great!

I’m always happy when I end up with something I can actually USE, from something that was about to be tossed. Now I’ll have no excuse not to have an organized desk right? lol Well, at least I’ll have something new and fun to set on my desk. yay!

Thanks so much for stopping by, and be sure to stop back to see all the Fancy Pants and Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L projects the Design Team will be posting.

Vicki

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A Card and a Gift Bag

Posted on February 17, 2012 by 3L Design Team Alumnae

I want to share with you today a card and a little gift bag.

First let’s take a look at the card.

I used that back of a Imaginisce packaging to create the background of the card. The doilies were sprayed with glimmer mist and then applied to the card using the E-Z Runner Permanent Fine Adhesive Dispenser. Then I sprayed some Creative Photo Corners White and created a little border at the top of the striped paper and added a little strip of paper on top of the photo corners.

I used Crafty Foam Tape to apply the die cuts.

And then on to the little gift bag:

For this little bag I used the packaging of Imaginisce Die Cuts and left the backing in.

I punched a border on a striped piece of paper and folded it over the top of the bag and stapled it on. A sticker was put on top and then I applied the die cut pieces with Crafty Foam Tape. For the little buttons I used Crafty Power Tape.

A quick and easy way to create a personal little gift for a special person!

Thank you for stopping by today!

Happy crafting!

Birgit Kooopsen

Supply list: E-Z Runner Permanent Fine Adhesive Dispenser, Creative Photo Corners White, Crafty Foam Tape, Crafty Power Tape

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Feeling “Springy”

Posted on February 16, 2012 by Vicki Chrisman

Welcome to the SCRAPBOOK ADHESIVES BY 3L™ and Imaginisce^®Blog Hop! I don’t know about you, but I’m ready for Spring! Working with this fun line really makes me long for it. Totally fun patterns and bright happy colors! Hippity Hop Collection.

I used my Spellbinders die for the background of the flower and used 3D Foam Squares to give a cute little Bird cage paper embellishment off of the page for dimension. I did the same under each of the leaves, title, and buttons.

I used E-Z Runner® Permanent Fine Adhesive for the rest of the construction of my layout. I love using Crafty Power Tape for thin long strips like the stem of the flower, and the word strips I used in the photo below.

Thank you for stopping by today!

Vicki Chrisman

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Hippity Hop Easter Banner

Posted on February 13, 2012 by Beth Pingry

I have an Easter Banner tutorial today!

And it’s sooooo easy to make! First I die cut the pieces, six of each.

Next I made the florets, which look tricky, but really they’re pretty simple. I die cut the edges for a fun design.

Fold at 1/2 inch intervals. Do mountain/valley folds the whole length, then adhere the ends to form a circle. MyStik™ Permanent Strips work perfectly for this.

Push the straight edges toward the center, with the decorative cut edges to the outside. Place a Dodz 3D Adhesive Dot at the center of the top, then flip it over and add a Dodz 3D to the bottom. Dodz come out of the dispenser with a clear plastic transfer sheet so you don’t have to touch the adhesive.

The clear transfer sheet stays on, and this allowed me to make several florets at once, and have them on my work space without sticking to everything!

I assembled the banner parts with the Nested Lacey Pennants, then the Nested Pennants using 3D Foam Squares, then the florets with Dodz 3D, and then the Imaginisce colored die cuts. The top Dodz piece not only holds the floret together, it holds the next layer!

Now just string ribbon through the back side and hang it up!

Thank you for stopping by today!

Beth Pingry

I used these supplies today:

SCRAPBOOK ADHESIVES BY 3L™: 3D Foam Squares, MyStik Permanent Strips, Dodz 3D
Imaginisce®: Hippity Hop Collection
Spellbinders™: Grand Calibur® machine S5-028 Nested Pennants, S5-029 Nested Lacey Pennants, E8-007 Classic Edges One, E8-014 Classic Decorative Inserts Six,
May Arts: Ribbon

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Sewing Box with Adhesive Sheets and Tissue Paper

Posted on February 6, 2012 by Beth Pingry

Today’s project is an altered paper box. I’m still on my sewing kick, even though I can hardly sew a button on…but at least I’m on trend, right? Here I have a tutorial for an altered Sewing Box. For other sewing inspired projects see my Spools of Creativity and My Idea of Housework Card blog posts.

Sewing Box with Adhesive Sheets by Beth Pingry

Creating the Sewing Box

For the box, I covered it first with Adhesive Sheets. Then I stamped an image onto tissue paper, crumpled the tissue paper and placed pieces onto the Adhesive Sheet covered box. I smoothed it down with my hands. To tone down the contrast I finished it with a wash of watered down white paint.

The chipboard shapes were painted with crackle paint. I die cut the doily shape and adhered it with Adhesive Sheets. I added the crackle painted chipboard shapes with Crafty Power Tape and Crafty Foam Tape – Black. The letter tiles and button are adhered with Crafty Power Tape.

I measured a length of black ribbon to fit around the box and secured it with Crafty Power Tape. I applied Crafty Foam Tape to the back side of the measuring tape ribbon and added it to the top of the black tape.

You can use Crafty Foam Tape to add dimension to ribbon, large items and so much more! Now in Black and White, you’ll find yourself reaching for the roll with every project!

Supplies used:

SCRAPBOOK ADHESIVES BY 3L™: Crafty Power Tape, Crafty Foam Tape – Black, Adhesive Sheets
Die Cut: Spellbinders Grand Calibur Machine, Picot Edge Circles die
Cardstock: WorldWin Papers
Stamp: Stampendous Dream Text
Chipboard: Maya Road
Paint: Ranger Ink Distress Crackle (Black, Gold, Blue)
Ribbon: Creative Impressions (measuring tape), Black (from my stash)
From my stash: Box, Buttons, Letter Tiles, Ric-Rac ribbon, Tissue Paper

Have a wonderful day!

Beth Pingry