Tuesday Tips and Techniques

 

Material Girl

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

by Linda Lucas

Linda Lucas share two techniques  using Spellbinders  Nestabilities to cut material - and then she'll embossusing an M-Bossabilities...I love the outcome! 

The second technique is layering - using different Dies Templates to add eclectic layering.

Let's get started:

Apply Elmers Craft Bond Glue Stick to your card then attach the material, then leave it to dry properly.  Next, using your Spellbinders Grand Calibur® Machine cut the Labels Seventeen Nestabilities as you normally would, after running it through once, turn the whole 'sandwich' over and run it through again - this ensures that the Die has cut through the card and the material - it is as easy as that!! 

 

Cut the butterflies from the Les Papillions.  There are four die templates with this set, two give beautifully filigree butterflies and the other two are solid and embossed, great for sponging while still in the Die. At the same time cut one (1) Decorative Labels Eight Nestabilities, the largest size and one (1) fourth largest Marvelous Squares Nestabilities.

 

Place the Die Cut material into the M-Bossibilities and run it through the Grand Calibur, between the Base Plate and the Raspberry Adapter Plate.

 You can see from the photo below how deeply etched the embossing is on the material.

Round the bottom corners of your card case and the patterned paper, sponge around the edges of the paper and using Scor-Pal® double sided tape, attach to the white card.  Add SCRAPBOOK ADHESIVES BY 3L™ Foam Tape to the back of the Decorative Labels Eight and adhere it to the card base, you can see in the photo the dimension the foam tape adds - another great technique with the Dies.

 

Next attach the Labels Seventeen Die Cut Material layer using SCRAPBOOK ADHESIVES BY 3L™ Foam Tape, repeating the layering adding the Foam Tape to the back of the Marvelous Squares as shown in the photo below and adhere it to the card base.

Next, layer the butterflies, using Beacon Adhesives Zip Paper Glue on the body of the solid sponged butterfly, attach the filigree butterfly, aligning the bodies.  Glue the layered butterfly to the center of the layered Dies.

 Finishing off with some Want2Scrap Beautiful Bling Borders - Fancy That added to opposite corners and Sleek Strip Silver Rhinestones to the body of the butterfly.

 

I hope you are inspired to use those material scraps you have stored away, to add to combine different Dies to add interesting layering to your projects.

Spellbinders™ Paper Arts Supplies:

• Spellbinders Grand Calibur® Machine
• S5-148 Decorative Labels Eight Nestabilities®
  
• S5-025 Labels Seventeen Nestabilities
• S4-371 Les Papillions Shapeabilities® 
• S4-383 Marvelous Squares

 Cross Promotional Partners:

• Elmers - Craft Bond Glue Stick
  
• SCRAPBOOK ADHESIVES BY 3L™ -  Foam Adhesive
• Scor-Pal® - 1/4" tape
• Clearsnap - Cat's Eye Pigment Ink - Walnut
• Clearsnap - Stylus - Cat's Eye Adapter Set
• KaiserCraft - These Days Collection - History

Others: Material, Scrap white card,