PettiBear's Fashion Roar: Altered Clipboard DIY- Heidi Swapp Blog Hop

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It's been a while since my last DIY tutorial ha...
Today I'm going to show you how to make an Altered Clipboard from SCRATCH!
Yep,it can be done with a few simple materials (and some tools from your husband's toolbox )
So...this is what we are going to do today

Here are the ingredients needed

Hard cover from an old book
Decorative cardstock
Various decorations
XYRON Creatopia Machine loaded with permanent adhesive cartridge
or
XYRON glue stick
XYRON 5" Creative Station
XYRON 3" Sticker Maker
XYRON Mega Runner
Teresa Collins 2 Hole Chipboard Punch
Small piece of sanding paper
A piece of beeswax
Iron
Drill+ drill bit
Rivet Gun
Metal clip

Lets begin-

Take your old book and cut of one of it's covers .

I used an old dated dictionary

Sand the cover to reduce the shine and give it some teeth

Find a word or cool sentence from the old book - we are going to frame it later on :)
I used the description of the word "Create"

I also did a sketch of a cute smiling bear (since my shops named Pettibear & PettiBearKIDS and my logo is a bear ,I thought it would look really nice without looking to logoie )
If you don't draw/ sketch, you can always use a stamped image .

To make my large scale sketch less overpowering, I decided to make it sheer by melting a small piece of beeswax between two layers of parchment paper and when melted I insert my image between the papers and iron over it making sure the melted wax is spreading evenly across the image

See how sheer it became

Now we are going to treat our clipped dictionary scrap of paper by giving it a nice frame

I use my XYRON Mega runner to apply glue on the narrow edges of the frame and glue the frame on top of my dictionary page.
After glueing ,trim the extra paper around the edges.

This sweet embossed frame came from a set of lovely frames by Heidy Swapp.
The set calls "color magic pressed paper frames"

This is the time to assemble the composition
Run the decorative cardstock through your Creatopia Machine or apply an even coat with your XYRON Glue Stick

I used tiny Polka Dot single sided patterned paper from Heidy Swapp collection for the background

And a 'checked by Santa 'checklist paper from the same "Believe" paper pad

I cut the checklist paper to a narrow strip ,run it trough my 5" Creative Station and glued it on top of the background

Glued in my waxed bear sketch on top

Added my framed ephemera in

Decorated my composition with "you are here" chipboard stickers from Lily Bee Design Destination line

Added a "Beautiful" wood tag from 'LOVE' Wood Tag collection by LYB

And glued in one of the cute library cards from Maya Road Design ,using my XYRON 3" Sticker Maker

I felt like some wording is in order,so I used Heidy Swapp's ‘color magic’ chipboard striped alphabet stickers for the 'ART'

American Crafts Good Tidings thickers chipboard alphabet stickers for the 'DIY'

And 'craft' word assembled with Lily Bee Design Destination Letter Stickers which were glued on top of Maya Road's oval tag shape from Mixed Shapes Mini Chipboard Set

The only thing left is to attach the large clip.
To do so,I needed to drill two holes in the clip itself ,but before the drilling I needed two good symmetrical marks-
I found the best tool to make the template in Teresa Collins NEW 2 hole punch.
By punching a piece of scrap paper I instantly had a ready to mark stencil

Making my marks through the holes of my template

And with my hubby's trusty Makita two holes were done ( begin the hole drilling slowly as the drill bit may slip easily from the tilted sleek clip's surface ,so be careful not to get hurt ! )