Altered Clipboard DIY- Heidi Swapp Blog Hop

Hey,Hey -have you missed me ? :D
 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

1. Hard cover from an old book
2. Decorative cardstock
3. Various decorations
4. XYRON Creatopia Machine loaded with permanent adhesive cartridge
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5.  XYRON glue stick
6.  XYRON 5" Creative Station
7. XYRON 3" Sticker Maker
8. XYRON Mega Runner
9. Teresa Collins 2 Hole Chipboard Punch
10. Small piece of sanding paper
11. A piece of beeswax 
12. Iron
13. Drill+ drill bit 
14. Rivet Gun 
15. 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 ! )

 I also drilled two holes through my altered board

 Attaching my large clip to the board with some paper clips

 And with  the help of my rivet gun (or whatever it's called) permanently connecting the large clip to my altered board

 The back of my board

And my awesome Altered Clipboard is DONE :)

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New house...New Wall ART

As I had mention on my FB timeline ,we just recently moved to a new house ...
Of course,as usual, (you all know me,I can't live with white walls ) my hubby and I had totally renovated it even though it's a rental.
I just have the need to make it my own (and thank God to our new home owner that went with all my paint job ideas and allowed me a freehand )
We started with the living room's grand wall.
Originally, it had these weird squares drawn on it-totally not my design esthetics !!

 I don't even get what the heck is it...a color test swatches or something :D
LOVE the door though ;) No complains there!

We covered the whole wall with light grayish decorative plaster

Hubby working hard on the first layer...I did the decorative effects

 Bye ,Bye colour swatches

wet plaster

 half dried and lightly pressed 

 Pressed and lightly smoothed 

I have HUGE plans for this wall!!! I want to DIY a Pinspired project of piped shelving on it :)

Second room that got a VIP treatment was our bedroom .
Our home owner's kids used to sleep in this room ,but when we moved in,we decided to give the smaller room to our kids and take this huge room to ourselves (we deserve it ! )

Here is how it looked like before

It's a happy room no doubt ,but it just not me :p
Here is what we did with it -
First of, a nice solid layer of fresh vanilla paint on all the walls but one

And the wall that has left, received a decorative plaster in warm cream shade
This will be the wall where the  headboard of our bed will be

 It had turn nicely,but I decided to gold glaze it all

 And to age the other wall (not that happy about the aged wall though...will work on it some more :)

BUT the really grand paintwork and my complete and full attention got our kids's room
Since originally,it was the adult's bedroom,it had a dark wine shade wall in it,which actually was really nice,but not for a 6 and 2 year old girls....
I painted all the walls in happy and light shades of greenish and bluish -two walls been solid and two walls decoratively painted .
The biggest wall in the room got a crazy mixed and matched effect -lots of different shades were applied to this wall,one on top of the other,covering and mixing in each other

While the wall to it's right,got a very subtle pearl glaze

After I finished with the paint job, I decided to add a large scale wall art of my original illustration on the crazy wall
I enlarged my doodles in photoshop, selected some lovely cardstock by LVB and Teresa Collins,  cut  large stencils  of the drawings out of the selected cardstock with my silhouette cutter and used my Creatopia Machine loaded with repositionable adhesive cartridge to make some HUGE wall stickers

 Stencil and a Sticker of my flower out of LVB Poppy collection cardstock (still glued to the cutting matt of the cutter

 Applying sticky transfer sheet for easy transfer of the cut shape  to the Creatopia machine

 removing the cutting matt off 

 Applying the back to back repo glue

 The sticker is ready!

First option of using the cut shape is as stencil

 Stick it to the wall and tab some paint over it as you would normally do with any stencil

 Second option is to use the shape itself

 Side by side

 Adding more flowers with different pattern on -this cardstock is by Teresa Collins

 The yellow flower was cut out of Coordination Color Core Cardstock

 Adding leafs and more flowers

 Stenciling again

 Applying transparent pearl glaze

  More flowers :)

 This one is going to be a gold glazed flower

 I also added some hand drawn flowers in using my Posca markers

 And the bunny from our previous crib relocated with us too ( this is actually the beauty in repositionable adhesive by XYRON -you can take your art with you wherever you go,even if it was previously  glued to other walls!!! )
You can read the How To tutorial on the Bunny Sticker here in my past post

 Close Up of the done wall art

 View with the pearl wall

So what do you think?
Let me know how you like it all :)

 Photos of the fully decorated and furnished room soon to follow-stay tuned :)

 Cheers

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