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New Tutorial

May 18, 2009 by Jess Leave a Comment

I meant to get this tutorial up here long before now….however my laptop decided to call it quits on me recently. Luckily I was able to get most of my files and photos and thank goodness for back ups! This is the 4th computer that has suddenly died on me over the years – so I learned the hard way to back things up. After the first time, where I lost EVERYTHING, I learned how to back things up from then on. Anyway, because of my not so great history with PC’s, I decided to go for a Mac this time around. So far I love it, but I’m still getting used to it so I’m a bit slow with things.

Now for the tutorial! This is a fun and easy project, a bit time consuming but totally worth it in the end! It’s an address/ contacts book. I made one for my mum for her birthday this month and I think I’m going to make a smaller version for myself to take with me when I move away this summer.

What you need:

-A lot of paper! cardstock weight, double sided. A good mix of patterned paper and plain cardstock works best. (this is a great time to go through your stash and use up some paper you’ve been hanging onto for awhile)

– 2 pieces of 12 x 12 chipboard sheets or craftyboard for the front and back cover

– A Bind it All Machine and the largest sized coils you have

– Stickers, embellishments, ribbon, etc. (anything you want to embellish the pages with but try to keep them as flat as possible)

– inks (for inking the edges of the pages if you so desire)

– print outs for each page (please feel free to use mine if you’d like – download them here)

– Letter stickers (flat) for the inside pages and puffy letter stickers for the cover (such as Thickers)

(Please excuse my messy desk in the photos!)

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supplies

1. Cut 2 pieces of chipboard/ craftyboard to 9.25 x 12″

2. Choose your paper and cut each piece to 9 x 12″

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3. Cover both your chipboard cover pieces with paper and trim excess. Sand the edges until smooth.

4. Stack your pages together and punch holes using the bind it all (you’ll have to do it in sections)

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5. Punch holes through cover pieces with the Bind it All then insert coils through all pages and covers and bind together.

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6. Print out enough sheets (to fill in name, address, phone, etc) for each page. Download mine here

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7. Trim pages, then ink edges (I used Jumbo Java ink)

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8. Glue a sheet onto each page

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9. Once all sheets are glued onto the pages, it’s time to add the letter stickers. I used Remarks Alphabet stickers by American Crafts. For more popular letters, I used more than 2 pages (either 3 or 4 depending on the letter).

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10. Now finish off your book by adding a title on the front. I choose to use “Contacts” but you could put “Addresses” or “Numbers” or anything you’d like

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Filed Under: Crafts, Scrapbooking/ Mini Albums, Tutorials

A fun tutorial

March 24, 2009 by Jess Leave a Comment

I thought I should post this tutorial I did for Memory Makers back in February (that’s why it has a Valentine’s theme): cute door hangers using old CD’s

The full tutorial is here

This past week I’ve been sick with a bad cold so I haven’t got nearly as much accomplished as I wanted to.

 

However, in my attempts to use up my stash of supplies, I have been getting quite addicted to felt lately! I have a huge stash of it, so I’ve been playing around making various things such as embellishments,  pouches and envelopes, etc. Fun stuff! I mostly just make these little things while I’m too tired to do anything else at night while watching tv. Its perfect for me cause I have to be multitasking, I can’t just sit there and watch tv. (unless of course I’m watching Lost, which gets my full attention. If I so much as blink during that show I feel like I missed something major, lol)
So after night after night of creating these fun little things, I have decided to list some of them on etsy! What an awesome site that is!! I could spend hours just browsing through all the amazing creations that people have made.  Some of my items were featured on the Every Day Scrapper today!

Filed Under: Crafts, Daily Life, Tutorials Tagged With: etsy, tutorial

New Tutorials!

December 13, 2008 by Jess Leave a Comment

CHA is coming up soon in Anaheim, California. I’m going to be going and teaching a workshop for Memory Makers! yay! My workshop, called Playing with Paper, can be seen here : I’ll be teaching 2 mini albums from my book, and everyone who takes the workshop will get a copy of my book! I’ll also be doing some book signings in the Memory Makers (F & W Publications) booth, so if you’re at CHA, please pop on over to say hi.

I worked on a bunch of new tutorials today, all Holiday related, there are 6 new ones posted on my tutorials page: Quick and Easy Holiday Tags, Holiday Card Holder Felt Wall Hanging, and 4 Take Out Gift boxes, using techiques by Claudine Hellmuth and some of her new products.

Filed Under: Crafts, Daily Life, Scrapbooking/ Mini Albums, Tutorials Tagged With: card holder, CHA, Christmas, class, classes, felt, gift boxes, holidays, paint, projects, tags, tutorial

Accordion Album Tutorial

March 9, 2008 by Jess Leave a Comment

These little albums are so much fun to make – and they are so easy and quick! You can make them vertical to hang on a wall, or horizontal so they sit on a shelf or desk.

 

Supplies needed:

– razor cutter/ with scoring blade

– adhesive

– 1 sheet 12 x 12 cardstock

– 1-2 sheets patterned paper, 1 additional cardstock sheet coordinating color

– ribbons and embellishments

– corner rounder

1. Cut your 12 x 12 piece of cardstock exactly in half, so you will have 2 pieces each measuring 6 x 12″

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2. Score each piece twice – once at 4″ , once at 8″, fold along the score lines accordion style (one piece forward, one piece back, etc)

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3. Glue the pieces together so you have one long piece (glue the bottom rectangle from one piece overlapping the top rectangle on the next piece)

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4. Cut 2 pieces of the coordinating color of cardstock and 2 pieces of the patterned paper to 5.75 x 3.75, ink the edges. Round 2 opposite corners of each piece.

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5. Glue down your pages. If you’d like any of them to be pockets, simply put a thin line of adhesive around 3 outer edges only, leaving plenty of room in the middle so you can fit a tag inside.

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6. Have fun adding photos and embellishments to your album!

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Filed Under: Scrapbooking/ Mini Albums, Tutorials

Valentine’s Day quick gift idea

February 14, 2008 by Jess Leave a Comment

I should have posted this up sooner, but to be honest, I haven’t been on the computer much lately, things are just really busy around here right now.

I did a class on these at Precious Memories last month – if you need a quick gift to give to your sweetie – try making these coupons, they are lots of fun 🙂

All you need is one 12 x 12 piece of plain cardstock – (I used black bazzill), and some patterned paper and stickers/embellishments. I used the fun new Loveland line by Scenic Route – both their patterned paper and their cardstock stickers – I just love them!

Start by cutting your cardstock in half, so you have 2 pieces measuring 6 x 12, then cut each of those pieces in 4 equal pieces – you will end up with 8 pieces measuring 6 x 3. Cover them with patterned paper leaving a small border around the edge and embellish with stickers, ribbon and doodles.  Add your own coupon write ups (ie: good for one dinner out; good for one movie, etc), or if you’d like to use the ones I made, please feel free to do so. I have both the black and white version and the colored one.

lovecoupons1.jpg  Download the black and white here

lovecouponscolor1.jpg  Download the color here

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Filed Under: Classes, Crafts, Freebies & Printables, Scrapbooking/ Mini Albums, Tutorials

Exploding Box Instructions

May 18, 2007 by Jess Leave a Comment


If you would like instructions for making these exploding boxes please email me at jess.acs at gmail.com

Let me know if you have any questions – and please post your photos of the boxes you create – or post a link – I’d love to see them 🙂

 

Filed Under: Scrapbooking/ Mini Albums, Tutorials Tagged With: box, exploding box, tutorial

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