“Hi there!  It’s Michele bringing you a fun Note Card Holder tutorial that uses the Build A Border set.

To create the folder, score at 2 and 2 1/2 inches on the short side of an 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of cardstock. On the long side, score at 5 and 6 inches, then cut out the piece where the score lines meet up to the top score line.
Simply fold all the score lines inward to create the structure of your folder.
Cut the scrap piece into 2 equal long halves and score at 1 and 1 1/2 inches. These will later be your reinforcement pieces.

To create your decorative front panel, stamp the diamond border 4 times in brown ink. This repeated pattern will create blank ovals. In these ovals, stamp the flower border with aqua ink. Stamp the dot border with orange ink into the diamonds. Trim your card stock to desired size and then layer over orange and brown card stock. Finally, add rhinestones into flower centers.

Next create decorative panels for the interior folder flaps as well as the interior and exterior spine. Then,using glue dots, adhere wide Ric Rac starting under left panel and wrap around exterior, leaving approx 2 inches on the right side unattached.

Stamp a flower image onto the reinforcement pieces and using Scor-Tape, adhere long end onto inside of folder flap and short end onto folder.

Adhere end of ric rac to button back and add double sided adhesive Velcro. When you wrap button around to front, this will give you perfect placement for Velcro closure.

To create cards, follow same directions as the front decorative panel. To create 2 different looks, I backed one with aqua card stock and one with orange card stock and then added a scallop edge of coordinating ric rac that I then layered over the same wide ric rac as the folder.

Now the really hard part…do you give away or keep it for yourself ?!

Have an awesome Tuesday!!”

I have a confession: I always say I’m not a scrapbooker, but I made a layout yesterday.  I remembered why I don’t scrapbook as much.  Because this one layout took me about 4 hours.  I loved detailed layouts with hidden journaling, lots of teeny tiny embellishments, and just the right papers!  I think I might actually frame it in a shadow box because I LOVE how it turned out!  (The little awning is my favorite, it lifts up for hidden journaling!)

This layout would not have been possible without some amazing adhesive!  I used up about two full sheets of foam squares (the entire shoppe is lifted up from the background with 2 layers of squares) and the tiny layered details of the sweets on the counter were EASY to adhere with the transfer tape from 3L.  (I did tell you I was on the DT for Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L, right?!?)

Well, I got to see some new adhesives they’ll be releasing at CHA, and let me tell you they are amazing, but that’s all I can tell you for now!  Want to find out about their new adhesive before everyone else at CHA?  If you do, be sure you’ve signed up at www.theshapetocome.com.  If you register your email address there before July 25th, you’ll get a special pre-show announcement!  (You’ll also be entered to win $50 worth of Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L products (winner announced on their blog August 2nd.!)

**How about this?  Let’s do a giveaway here too!  Leave a comment here on my blog and I’ll draw a winner for $25 of Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L products on July 25th!**

Erin

You can customize any of the text so feel free to make up your own sentiment!  Have an awesome weekend!!

Erin

Start with a piece of paper that’s 4″ x 5 1/2″.  The rest of the instructions are in the video.  I find that it’s always easier to see origami as it’s done, instead of seeing step by step pictures of the process.

Here’s a close up of the shirt and tie.  Try adding a mini metal brad for a tie tack!

Supplies: Basic Grey papers, Cuttlebug embossing folder from the Asian Set, Adhesive from Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L, ribbon from my scrap bag.

Erin

Download the PDF here.  It includes the Strawberry boxes in a light and dark pink, 2 different cards, and the blank template if you want to use your own patterned paper to make the boxes!  (Have a Cricut and the SCAL software?  You can download the box template here and the leaf template here to let the Cricut cut it out for you!)

Instructions:

Print the entire PDF out onto white cardstock.  There are 2 cards on the page, cut in half so you’ve got two pieces that are 8 1/2″ x 5 1/2″.

Score at 4 1/4″, and fold.  Your cards are done!

To fold the box see the video below.  (It was going to be a little tricky to show you in pictures so I made a quick video instead!)

See, it is pretty easy!

If you are using your Cricut and SCAL, or the blank template to use your own patterned paper, just cut the base out of a strawberry colored paper, and the leaves out of a leaf colored paper.

Layer and glue the leaves onto the base.

Fold according to the instructions in the video above.

Let me know if you enjoyed this and Happy Crafting!

Erin

P.S.  Have you registered for CraftyCon yet?  It’s going to be awesome!  There’s even a special code right now for an additional $50 off of registration!

Be sure to check out the speakers too!  There’s lots of great crafty business minded people and we’re adding more almost daily!  Hope to see you there!

Supplies:

Stamps: Furnishing Fun Stamp Set

Paper: American Crafts paper, white vellum (source unknown…my scrap pile!)

Embellishments: Opal Pearl Paint

Adhesives: Vellum Tape, Permanent Tape, and Foam Squares from Scrapbook Adhesives

This card is a standard size of 5 1/2″ x 4 1/4″.  To make the 3D part, cut a piece of vellum that’s 5″ x 2″.  Score both ends of the vellum 3/8″ in from the side.  (This will make a little flap to adhere your vellum tape to.)

Fold and place adhesive, and adhere to card.  (The picture is looking down from the top.  See how the vellum “pops” out a little?)

Embellish and attach butterfly cutouts.  (I used some butterflies cut from the Cricut Storybook Cartridge but you could use chipboard or punched butterflies just as easily!)

Stamp Relax, Celebrate, and Live on a coordinating strip of paper, add pearl paint embellishments, and adhere.

This project actually has two separate parts to it.  First off we’re going to make a shrinky dink ruler.  Trust me, this will make ALL your shrinky dink projects easier from here on out!  This is how you’re going to know for sure how much your plastic will shrink!  It always says 1/3 …but who wants to do the exact math on that?!?  Not me!

Tools for the first part of the project:

1 sheet Shrinky Dinks-Frosted Rough and Ready

1 ruler

Embossing Heat Tool

various colored pencils

Cut a piece of shrinky dink out that’s 10″ long and 1/2″ wide.  Next you’ll want to line it up next to your regular ruler and transfer all the measurements onto your piece of shrink dink.  I used blue for all the 1″ lines, green for all the 1/2″ lines and black for the 1/4″ lines.  Using a colored pencil works well, the sharper you have it, the finer your line and the more accurate your “ruler” will be.  If you think it will be easier for you, don’t be afraid to write in the numbers below the marks too!

After that, just shrink it!  I use my Embossing Heat Tool for the shrinking process instead of the oven.  Faster results, and you don’t have to heat up your entire oven for a few little plastic pieces!  Here’s what it will look like finished:

See how all the different colors make it easy to spot each 1″, 1/2″, and 1/4″ measurements?  Now we’ll use this to determine how big our piece needs to be cut so that it shrinks to the right size for our project.

For the earrings you’ll need:

Shrinky Dinks-Frosted

Pigment Stamp Ink

Silver stickers

Basic jewelry making supplies (wire, pliers, coordinating bead, earring hooks)

For our earrings I wanted something that shrunk to be 5/8″ x 1 3/4″.  I drew a box on some scratch paper that was actually 5/8″ x 1 3/4″ then “measured” is with my shrinky dink scale.

You can see that the 5/8″ piece actually measures 1 1/2″ according to the shrinky scale.  (Remember the blue is 1″ and the green is 1/2″.)

And the longer 1 3/4″ side actually measures 4″ with the shrinky scale.

Now we’ve got our measurements for the shrinky dink piece: 1 1/2″ x 4″!  Go ahead and cut out two pieces to this measurement:

Now stamp away!  Use your permanent pigment ink and stamp a pattern onto your shrinky dink pieces.  I used one shape from the Outside The Box stamp set and one shape from the Build A Border set.

Don’t worry about the colors not being too bright, when they shrink they will be more saturated and noticeable!  (Tip: Punch your holes to attach these to your earring hooks now, before you shrink them!  I didn’t do that and it made it a little harder to punch the holes…my Crop-A-Dile had to come to the rescue for that one!  Punch your holes in the middle near the top!)

Now shrink!  It’s really easy!  I even did a little video so you can see how fast it works with your embossing gun!  It can get a little out of control and sometimes it won’t flatten as soon as it’s done, so you’ll see in the video I used an empty acrylic mounting block to flatten it as soon as I turned off the heat gun.  (There’s no sound…I muted out all the embossing gun noise!)

Here’s a shrunken one and a non-shrunken one.  See how the color is more saturated?

Shrink your other one and punch the holes if you forgot to do that before your shrunk it.

Now add your little silver stickers:

We’re almost done!  Just a little bit of wire work and we’ll be all done!  Make a small loop in your bendable wire like so:

Then add your coordinating bead and loop the other end.

Loop one end around the earring hook and the other around a small jump ring that’s attached to the whole in the top of your shrinky dink piece.  You’re all done!

Happy Crafting!

And have I ever mentioned that pretty much all my crafting talant came from my mom?  Here’s proof:

How cute is this card?  Get it?  I’m “toad”ly into you!  And how about that cute extra long curly tongue on the frog?

Have a great weekend and a Happy Valentine’s Day everyone!

P.S.  Here’s a sneak peek of the project for Tutorial Tuesday next week:

They used the Boughs stamp set, the sentiment from the Furnishing Fun set and the new Zing embossing powder from American Crafts.  The embossing powder is awesome!  It’s works well on even the finest of stamps and comes in great fresh colors!  Thanks Marnie for letting me share!

So here’s the first one!  Hexagon-A-Thon!  I love hexagons and their ability to be used separately or fit nicely together to make a pattern.  This set comes with 10 hexagon images that can be interchanged!  The three larger borders fit nicely around the smaller ones and are easily stamped on top because they are clear!

Outside the box is a great stamp set too!  This set has 4 blocks, and the fillers, so if you just want to stamp the design great, but if you want to fill it in, just stamp the coordinating image on top.  The boxes along the bottom will fit easily around the blocks too if you want a little bit of a border!

Build A Border!  This set is great for making backgrounds, borders, and many other things to add to your card and scrapbook layouts!  I even designed the border stamps so that they are super easy to manipulate and you can even bend the borders to make circles and ovals very easily!  I love what you can do with clear stamps!!

Furnishing Fun.  I love Interior Design, but there’s not too many sets out there that include it.  This has a cute little shelf with two vases.  (The middle of the vases are different stamps so it’s easy to make it a different color (or emboss) just the middle!  There’s a few different flowers for the vases as well as a few cute pears.  The shelf can actually be made into a picture frame too!  (I’ll do a card showing you that soon!)  And of course the chair!  Love the chair!  Looks cute with a little pear sitting on top of it!

There you have it!  My brand new releases!  And until October 1st-all stamp sets will be on sale for $12.50!!!  Even the previous releases!  And FREE shipping on all pre-tax orders of over $40 STILL applies!  Now is the time to stock up!  Visit the website here or if it’s easier to purchase from Etsy you now can!  I opened up an Etsy shop to make it easier on those who already have an Etsy account.  Purchasing through either site will still give you the sale price, as well as FREE shipping on all orders over $40!!

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Giveaway-  Ok, now that you’ve stuck with me-ready for the details?  I’ll be giving away to 1 lucky reader 1 each of the above 4 stamp sets!  You’ll get ALL the new sets!  How cool is that?!?  Here’s what you have to do (and how to get extra entries!):

1. Leave a Comment at the end of THIS post and let me know which one is your favorite.  Easy, right?

2. Extra Entry: Share this post on Facebook.  It’s easy with the little Facebook button on the bottom of this post. Leave a comment letting me know you shared it on Facebook.

3. Extra Entry: Share my new releases on Twitter.  Again, use the button at the end of the post to easily share it!  (Be sure to include @eschlosser in the tweet so I can see and leave another comment on this post.)

4. Extra Entry: Blog about your favorite new stamp set and include a link back here.  Let me know that you blogged about it here in the comments.

5. Extra Entry: Sign-up for my blog feed in the sidebar there.  (If you’re already signed up, you’re already entered!)

6. Extra Entry: Be a fan of Schlosser Designs on Facebook!  Either click on the link on the right sidebar, or click here to go directly there!  (If you’re already a fan, awesome!  Just leave me a comment letting me know that!)

So go ahead and enter up to 6 times with the entry ideas above.  Good luck!  The giveaway ends October 1st and I’ll announce the grand winner October 2nd!