Have you ever created a Monthly Recap Scrapbook Layout? I started doing it this year with the help of the Best Year Ever Collection from Simple Stories. It’s a great way to use up pictures that may not make it to their own layout, but are still a part of life that you want to remember. Some months I have tons of pictures and others I have less. Being home all month in April and making lots of memories, made for a lot of April pictures. With lots of pictures and journaling to add, I need just the right adhesives to make this project work. Let’s take a look at what I used for my April layout.
Monthly Recap Scrapbook Layout Adhesives
As we discuss regularly here, having the right adhesives for the job makes a project go so much smoother. For my Monthly Recap Scrapbook Layout, I used the E-Z Runner Grand, 3D Foam Squares, and Adhesive Sheets.
Whenever I fussy cut something, as I did with April, it’s nice to have Adhesive Sheets. With all the curves and skinny lines, I don’t want to go back after doing all the cutting and have to try and get adhesive in all the right spots. Adhesive Sheets provide just enough coverage and hold fabulously.
I can’t imagine doing a scrapbook page without my 3D Foam Adhesives. Today the 3D Foam Squares are helping give height to my butterflies and clouds.
Everywhere else the E-Z Runner Grand was the workhorse. It was just thin enough to work for my journaling strips and yellow strips!
You can check out the details for my April Monthly Recap Scrapbook Layout below. For previous monthly recap layouts, head over on my YouTube Channel!
Hi, friends! Want to make someone smile? Teri here, and I’ll show you how to put together a couple of quick rainbow cards to pop in the mail and make the ones you love smile! Let’s get started!
Create a Rainbow with Pop and Dimension
Start by die-cutting a rainbow and some clouds from white cardstock. Don’t have a rainbow die? You can make rainbow bands by using nested circle dies together.
Take your rainbow bands and apply color to them with markers. Flip your rainbow over and add a few strips of tape to them to hold them together.
Make your rainbow pop by adding some small strips of Crafty Foam Tape to it.
Stencil a pattern onto a piece of cardstock (or use it plain), and adhere your rainbow to it. Add your clouds and a stamped sentiment.
Give your rainbow an extra happy feel by adding some 3D Foam Hearts to it, as well as around it. Coat the hearts with flock or glitter!
Rainbow Card with Less Pop
Worried about sending a card through the mail with a lot of bulk? You can easily make a rainbow card without any Crafty Foam Tape or 3D Foam Hearts.
Change your design by adhering everything to your card with a “flat” adhesive, like Dots or Strips. Also, look for ways to add to the overall design. Stamped birds or butterflies in the background are a great way to do that!
You can also add sequins to your clouds with Adhesive Dots. Sequins are a great embellishment for cards because they are mostly flat and don’t add much bulk to cards!
I hope you enjoyed today’s tutorial and are inspired to make rainbow cards of your own!
Other White Cardstock: Neenah Paper; Dies: Paper Smooches (Rainbow), Simon Says Stamp! (Clouds); Stamps: My Favorite Things (From the Heart Stamp Set), Paper Smooches (Luminous Spring); Stencil: My Favorite Things; Sequins: Pretty Pink Posh; Blue Ink Pad: My Favorite Things; Black Ink Pad: Ranger Ink; Flock: Stampendous!; Markers: Copic
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Welcome! It’s time for the Spring/Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop with this adorable coffee-themed project! As a SUPER SPONSOR, we’ve provided great prizes too! Grab a cuppa and join the hop with your own beverage-themed artwork!
What is Coffee Lovers? It is a coffee-loving (or tea or cocoa) community of card makers open to everyone. Their blog offers inspirational coffee-related posts and bi-annual coffee blog hops that YOU can join. You get a chance to win the giveaways as a blogger! So read until the very end!
Margie shows you how she creates an easy and fun shaker card with Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L® products. Follow along and learn a few ideas. Let’s Rule the World with this shaker card!
Rule the World Shaker Card by Margie Higuchi
Hi, coffee-loving friends! Margie here today sharing a coffee-themed shaker card with texture and an unexpected element too. Using the Keepsake Envelopes, I share how to make an easy and fast way to create a shaker feature. Let me show you how, along with other ideas!
Shaker Card Basics and Texture
I cut three layers for this green A2-sized (4.25 x 5.5-inch) card base. The yellow patterned paper was cut at 4 x 5.25-inches, the Kraft paper was cut at 3.75 x 5.00-inches and the flower patterned paper was cut at 2 x 4-inches to slid inside the Keepsake Envelope (on the right side of image).
To make texture on the Kraft cardstock panel, I used a coffee-themed embossing folder and rolled it through the die-cutting machine. LOVE how it turned out!! Designer’s Note: lightly water mist the Kraft panel before embossing for a crisp embossed design.
Making a Window
Die-cut a coffee cup window shape in the embossed Kraft panel. Set aside.
Since I had my die-cutting machine out, I die-cut the lid and the sleeve out of ivory cardstock. Then I stamped the sentiment on the sleeve with brown ink. Set aside.
Shaking It Up a Bit
Slip the 2 x 4-inch flower patterned paper into the rectangle Keepsake Envelope. Add sequins and shaped glitter in front of the paper. Take the small liner in front off, fold the flap over on top to seal. Keep the back liner on – you will need it to add to the Kraft window panel.
Apply E-Z Runner® Grand Ultra Strong adhesive on the edges of the Kraft window panel. Using the back liner of the Keepsake Envelope as a handle, place the envelope over the window and use the liner to press the envelope into the adhesive to secure.
Adding a Twist
To add some fun, I had an unused coffee cup stopper that I grabbed from my coffee shop. I used a combination of Adhesive Dots 3D for the top (because it had a stopper and was thick) and Adhesive Dots Small for the bottom tip. I tuck the bottom into the window and then secured the top.
Then I added 3D Foam Strip on the top edge of my window to lift the coffee lid over the coffee stopper. I stacked two strips. Repeat for the sleeve.
Other Patterned Papers: Authentique Paper (Blissful Collection); Stamps and Dies: My Favorite Things Stamps (Perk Up Stamps and Coffee Cup Dies); Ink: Ranger Ink (Fray Burlap Distress Ink); Embossing Folder: Sizzix (On the Go Texture Fades by Tim Holtz); Green Card Base; Kraft and Ivory Cardstock; Coffee Cup Stopper; Shaped Glitter: WOW! Embossing Powder; Sequins
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Hello crafty friends and welcome back! Tracy here, and today I am sharing this sweet and simple Dimensional Card to brighten up someone special’s day. Let’s bring back the love of Snail Mail during this time that we cannot be together, get crafting and send some cards.
Make a Wish Layers
Firstly I started by cutting, and die cutting my dimensional card layers. This collection from Simple Stories is just the cutest, and prefectly sweet to create birthday cards with. I then gathered the die cuts that I wanted to feature on the dimensional card. The finished card base is a 4×6 front, 6×8 in white cardstock and folded in half.
Second step is to adhere the yellow pattern to the white cardstock die cut piece, and adhere the lavender cardstock to the plaid patterned paper using the E-Z Dots® Permanent Refillable Dispenser.
Other: Thin Metal Die: Heartfelt Creations (Ornate Die); Patterned Papers, Enamel Dots, and Die Cuts: Simple Stories (Magical Birthday Collection); Lavender and White Cardstock
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Hi, Connie here with a dimensional Father’s Day card. June will be here before we know it, so let’s create a mixed media-inspired card for our dads! Creating a Father’s Day card with 3D Foam products will make this card POP!
Create a background using inks by watering it down and use it as watercolors. Layer colors and heat dry after each color until the desired look is achieved.
Stamp tool images with ink and one image with VersaMark. Emboss the VersaMark image with embossing powder. Trim all images out.
Next, gently apply ink onto the card panel over the adhesive lines. Be sure to apply gently so that you are not rubbing the adhesive away yet. Let the ink dry.
Once the ink has dried, simply rub the adhesive off with your fingers. This is where you will see the magic happen! The adhesive acts as a resist and leaves a subtle white dotted design. This works like a mask when you apply ink onto the card panel. What a great effect! Wasn’t that easy?
Next, add Thin 3D Foam Squares White Mix to the back of each of the clouds. Determine placement on the card front, remove liners, and adhere the cut pieces.
Type out New Home on the label maker and place it on a piece of white cardstock. Hand-cut into a matted banner and adhere to the card by stacking two Thin 3D Foam Squares White Mix to make it really pop up!
Wear Your Adhesive on the Outside
With a lot of space left on the bottom, I decided to add a foiled accent and match the design from the resist background.
Instead of a resist technique, I will do a Wear Your Adhesive on the Outside technique. Use them on the outside and create unique embellishments instead of using the adhesive between layers. You can perfectly match your projects using mediums such as foil, embossing powder, glitter, microbeads, flock, and more!
To start, I ran the adhesive over the card in several horizontal stripes. Next, place a piece of Metallic Transfer Foil Sheets Holographic Colors color side UP over the adhesive and gently rub with your fingertip to transfer the color to the adhesive. Then peel off the foil to create a gorgeous glittery effect! It’s that easy + fast and the best part, no tools required!
The Finishing Touches
For the final touch, I tore a piece of washi tape with the word, Congratulations, and made it a part of the sentiment to the card by adding it on top of the foiled accent.
Voila… your New Home card is ready. I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and try these fun and easy techniques!
Other Etched Dies and Die Cutting Machine: Spellbinders® Paper Arts (Sun and Clouds, Platinum 6 Machine); White and Black Cardstock; Patterned Cardstock: American Crafts (Auburn Lane); Sentiments: Dymo and Washi Tape Craft Emotions; Inks: Ranger Ink (Distress Oxide in Spun Sugar and Victorian Velvet); Scissors; Paper Trimmer; Bone Folder
Hi friends! Dana here today sharing a fun Summer layout that I created with the help of my daughter. We are working on painting the planter boxes in our backyard. My daughter designed her box with handprints and hearts. I wanted to document this event and I thought that including her handprint on my scrapbook page would be a great way to coordinate with our project, and also record the size of her hand at age 11.
Both my daughter and I enjoyed working on both projects. Having her handprint on this scrapbook layout ensures that I’ll remember this moment long after the paint on the planter box fades.
Metallic Transfer Foil Handprint Embellishment
After I assembled the base patterned papers and other page elements, I traced the outline of my daughter’s hand onto an Adhesive Sheet 6 x 12-inch. I cut the handprint out and pressed it onto the page. Next, I peeled the top liner from the hand and covered it with a sheet of Metallic Transfer Foil Variety Colors. Finally, after firmly pressing down on the foil sheet (color-side up) to transfer the color, I removed the foil to reveal the metallic handprint embellishment.
To add another layer of color, and to match the design on the planter box, I applied a 3D Foam Heart to the center of the handprint. I sprinkled a layer of glittered yellow flock onto the foam heart. The metallic foil and the glittered flock really sparkle in the light!
Adding Dimension to Die-Cut Flowers
I used 3D Foam Circles to attach several of the die-cut flowers to my layout to help raise the shapes off of the page.
Thanks for stopping by today! I hope I have inspired you to create art with your children! ~Dana Tatar
Hello crafty friends! It’s Judy here with a textured grad card with a masculine look. It’s that time of year, even with all the change in our world, seniors will soon graduate. I’d like to show you how I achieved this wonderful background to make a card for that special grad!
Textured Grad Card Background
Rub and blend several ink colors over a crumpled printer paper. There’s a subtle grid pattern stamped on it for a little more interest. Iron the paper to flatten and smooth it before applying a sheet of Adhesive Sheets 4×6 inch to the back. Then cut to size…keep that excess piece for later.
The Adhesive Sheets 4×6 inch makes it easy to attach the background to a 3.5 x 6.25-inch tan card base. Think like a sticker with edge-to-edge coverage. The paper is quite flexible and soft after inking. Next, I traced around the edge with a black fine point marker for definition.
Add the Grad
Recycle a piece of worn denim by adhering a piece of 3D Foam Creative Sheets Small Black on the back and die-cutting the letters GRAD. Make sure to keep the negative pieces of the material. I’ll show you what I did with them 🙂
For each letter, I edged with blue ink to coordinate with the background paper. On a piece of rectangular tan cardstock, I distressed it with a combination of blue and brown inks. Then I took off the bottom liner of the letters and adhere them to the cardstock. Next, I edged the cardstock with a black marker. Adhere to the card base with the E-Z Runner® Ultra Strong Refillable Dispenser. When it comes to adhering to a textured or ink surface, the Ultra Strong adhesive is the perfect solution.
After stamping the Congratulations sentiment with black ink on white cardstock, I distressed it again with the same combination of blue and brown inks. It’s hard to see that in my photos because it’s subtle. With the Crafty Foam Tape White, place it above the Grad sentiment. I really like that Crafty Foam Tape White is not thick! It fit the back of my verse perfectly.
An Encore Card
Remember the negative pieces from the letters? I used those along with scraps of background paper to put together another card. Now I have two cards that I can send out!
Hello crafty friends and welcome back. Tracy here, and today I have a fun little home decor project to share. I created this Framed Birch Bark Decor piece using minimal supplies and bark I got from my own back yard. Here are all of the details.
Birch Bark Prep
I am so very lucky to have a large birch bark tree, right in our backyard. Each year it sheds huge pieces of its bark. This bark is so useful for many crafty projects. It is easily trimmed with a rotary cutter and can be punched out or die cut.
For this project, I cut a 4 x 6-inch piece to be placed into my 5 x 7-inch frame. Designer’s Tip: once you bring the birch bark in your home, give it a few days to dry. To make sure it dries flat, place in between newspaper and stack books on top.
To add your design to the bark, you can use a knife or nail. Something that can scratch the bark easily. Another option is to draw or stamp on it.
Building Layers
Cut a piece of white chipboard to fit in the frame for the background and adhere into the frame.
On the back of the birch bark, add strips of Extreme Double-Sided Tape 1/4in and then place strips of the Crafty Foam Tape White on top of the double-sided tape. Next, remove the liners and center in the frame. Now it’s ready to display!
See what you can find in your back yard. Perhaps there is some crafty inspiration waiting just outside.
