Happy World Card Making Day with Xyron and Spellbinders!

Today I'm celebrating World Cardmaking Day with Xyron, Spellbinders and a little bit of Authentique thrown in! To start, I took some papers from Authentique's Grateful Collection and die cut various pieces using the Orchard Harvest Tags and Accents Fall themed Shapeabilities® set from Spellbinders. This set is really great, as you can die cut, emoboss and stencil using the same set. As you can see, I did a combination of all three for the various pieces of each die cut.

I really loved the stenciling capabilities of this set, as I'm not a huge embosser. I don't yet have an embossing mat, so used a slice of craft foam (normally reserved for making dimensional adhesive with my Xyron products) to create the embossed effects with the dies. It wasn't perfect, and I kind of ruined the craft foam, but now I really want to grab an embossing mat and see what these dies and the other Spellbinders Shapeabilities® sets do!

For the second card, I used more of the stencil effects, and was really happy with how this turned out. To better showcase the embossing techniques, I used some of my ImagineCrafts Versamagic Ink in Red Brick on the embossed sections. For both cards, I used my Xyron 3" Sticker Maker for each of the scalloped frame pieces. This is one of my favorite Xyron tools as it is big enough to use on most card-sized pieces, but small enough to stow in your travel craft case and take to crops. I also really like using the Xyron 3" Sticker Maker to make wider pieces of craft foam tape in order to use it on larger areas. My other go-to products on this pair of cards are the Xyron 1.5" Sticker Maker on the vertically striped paper and Xyron's Double-Sided High Tack Tape throughout both cards. This way, I can adhere my pieces securely, but still allow space to bend up the pieces for more dimension.

Supplies Used:
Xyron: 3" Sticker Maker, 1.5" Sticker Maker, Double-Sided High Tack 1/2" Tape
Spellbinders: Orchard Harvest Tags and Accents Fall themed Shapeabilities® set
Other Supplies: Authentique Paper (Grateful Collection: Plentiful, Observance, Copious, Kindred, Foundations One Distressed Solid, Bountiful, Components 6x12 paper die cuts), ImagineCrafts VersaMagic Ink (Red Brick), Staedler TriPlus Fineliner (Nature) Pin It

Happy Anniversary Card using Lawn Fawn!

My husband and I just celebrated our 10 year anniversary. 10 years!! It was important to come up with a special and fun card, and I really loved the sentiment from the Lawn Fawn Love You Tons stamp set. I paired the elephant stamps with the coordinating Lawn Cuts in Love You Tons as well.

I then colored them with Spectrum Noir pens. Layered some stamped hearts with die cut hearts using the Lawn Cuts Hearts set. The papers are both 6x6 papers from Authentique's Suave Collection (teal) and Studio Calico's Darling Dear (blue patterned paper).

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Back to School... (Already?!?!?!)

Today I get to spend the day with my peers, planning out how to implement the next school year. In preparation for my own desk, I created this super cute pencil case and crayon box using Xyron products and Authentique's Curiosity Collection. Even a year later, I still love this line. 

The Xyron 9" Creative Station is perfect for gluing down those larger pieces of paper. Especially if you want them to really stick to your project. I'm pretty sure that the decoration on the pencil box is going to last longer than anything that will go in it. And all of those little pieces on the die cut pencil, those were all aided by Xyron's 1.5" Create-A-Sticker Machine.

I used a combination of both machines on the crayon box as well. In truth, I really wanted to minimize the amount of loose crayons my daughter has in my studio. (I think they are all over the place!)

I really love how this super fun project turned out. And yes, it did make me a little bit excited to start school this year!

Supplies Used:
Xyron 9" Creative Station, Xyron 1.5" Create-A-Sticker Machine, Authentique Curiosity Collection: Learning, Academic, Studious, Details and Elements Stickers, VersaMagic Ink in Turquoise Gem, Silhouette Online Store: pencil, crayon box Pin It

Elle's Studio Sketch Thursday 7/25

Sometimes the right photograph needs the right layout. And the right products. I don't remember ever scrapping this picture. It's from Ro's newborn pics. I kind of love how the color in the photo works with the colors in the Serendipity line from Elle's Studio. I also pulled pieces from the past few monthly kits (June/July) and some older Lil' Snippets.

I even pulled out my Silhouette sketch pens and used them for my journaling!!

And a stamp!! I'm trying to use my inks and stamps in new ways. I'm still not so hip to the stamping on layouts (mainly in case it messes up), but I stamped it and fussy cut to give it a layered effect. Then used some Cosmo Cricket Tiny Type for the mini-title.

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