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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Graphic45 /Petallo Blog Hop follow up-16" Paper Star Lantern DIY

OMGosh!!! Graphic45 has this AMAZING Steampunk  Spells collection that will make you drool :p The cardstock is so beautiful ,that after having a thought to make a 3D star out of it, I actually had a hard time to make the first cut  :D

In any way,after admiring the design just enough and  overcoming the shaky hands ,I created the template  for the star and made this DIY tutorial for you :)

And so,to make yourself a star like this

You'll need -

• 3 pieces of 12X12" Cardstock- I'm using the Steampunk Spells cardstock by Graphic45 
 - Witching Hour 4500687

 -Tick-Tock 4500686

 - Clockworks 4500682

• XYRON 1/4" (6mm) Double Sided Tape
• Electronic cutting machine 

First of,I created a template for my 16" Paper Star in Photoshop 

(you can grab it from my graphic design shop)

I transferred the design to my Silhouette cutter and cut a total of 5 shapes.

See how I cheated my old A4 cutter to cut a 12" design I planned-I folded the sheet underneath the cutting matt and after cutting the first piece I unfolded the cardstock and cut the second shape on the remaining part of the sheet. :D 

Of course if you have the Cameo which is a A3 plotter ,you won't need to manipulate your machine and will save some valuable time as well lol 

OR, you can just cut the template off by hand-that will work too :D but I'm lazy like that^^

 So here is my cut shape-you need to cut exactly 4 more like this

 Make the creases

 Apply the double sided tape- I used my 6mm XYRON double sided tape

 Tape here...here...and here...

The long fold is glued  to create the 3D shape

 The short folds are connecting the shapes together

 Glue one side together ,turn the shapes over and glue the other side

 Keep doing so with all 5 cones

 Ta Da-finished :)

 Now,if you want to make this Paper Star into a light fixture, don't connect  the 4th and 5th cones to each other  so you can insert a light bulb in the gap

 To see how I made a Blossoming Headband from Petaloo flowers and trims hop on here

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Petaloo and Graphic 45 Blog Hop

Today I have a special treat for you-we are at XYRON teamed up with Petallo and Graphic45 for an AWESOME blog hop.

Petaloo has these GORGEOUS  paper blooms that immediately gave me an idea of what I want to do for this hop...
For Petaloo,I'm gonna show you how you can easily make a stunning   Blossoming Headband with very little ingredients but one that will upgrade your outfit and take it to another level

 Seaside Blossom Headband

With Graphic45 ,I decided to go for Pinspired  home decor and show you how to make this cool 3D Paper Star that can also serve as a light fixture 

BUT ,lets begin with the Blossoming Headband :)

To make one you'll need -

• a Headband base (I had a skinny doubled metal headband )
• Petaloo Darjeeling - Dahlias x 10 Sm. - Seaside (SKU: 1467-405UPC Code: UPC: 751036475721) /Darjeeling Daisies x 4 Lg. Seaside (ITEM: 1469-405 UPC Code: UPC: 751036475899)
• Crochet Lace Fancy Trim 2.25 yds Blues ( ITEM: 1482-103)
• XYRON 1.5" create-a-sticker
• XYRON 3/16" High Take glue dots
• A small piece of felt in coordinating colour 
• Thread and needle

 Begin by measuring the crochet lace trim-it should be slightly larger than your headband so the edges can overlap a little bit

 Stick your trim/s to your 1.5" XYRON sticker maker to apply a back to back adhesive on them

 Adhere the trim to your headband

 Overlap trim edges to make a nice all around crochet headband

 Nice already isn't it :)

 Now cut your piece of felt to an egg-like shape-this will be the base to your corsage

 Apply XYRON high tack glue dots to the back of each bloom

 Voila -you already have a stunning cluster 

 Now sew the  corsage base to the headband  with a quick stitch and your done

ENJOY!

For the Graphic45 Paper Star Lantern ,please hop on to the next post :)

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