Operation Write Home blog hop 2012! May 26, 2012

We are excited to be participating in the Operation Write Home blog hop celebrating our brave men and women this Memorial Day weekend! If you’re not familiar with Operation Write Home, they are a wonderful organization that creates & collects handmade cards and sends them to troops serving overseas so they can correspond with loved ones back home! I hope you enjoy the blog hopping tour and get some card inspiration while you’re at it! I hope that you send in some cards to Operation Write Home and help bring smiles to soldiers and their families!

We have decided to give away several adhesive prize packs to visitors during the hop…
Here are TWO WAYS TO ENTER:
1. Leave a comment on this post and tell us how you got to our blog!
2. Like us on Facebook and then comment on our Facebook post about the Operation Write Home blog hop!

Also, we’re offering hoppers a fantastic deal for shopping on our site!
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This year’s blog hop theme is Sketches! We picked out one of the amazing card sketches, #30, and had a few of our design team members show their representation of the sketch. I love using sketches…it’s a great way to start the creative process and yet the end result doesn’t look identical to the last!

Here’s an interpretation of the sketch by design team member, Erin Yamabe!
Erin used NEW iCraft Dots to create her flowers, Zots and the Sticky Dot Runner XL to adhere the remaining parts of the card down. I love the layered scallop stripe at the top and the doily inspired shapes which are so hot right now!

Same sketch but incorporates butterflies by Daniela Dobson
Daniela used the Sticky Strip Runner, Zots and Foam Squares to bring her butterfly to life! I love the use of Baker’s Twine…another hot trend we’re seeing lately!

Here are two great examples from Melissa Bullock.
The first uses the Sticky Strip Runner, Foam Squares, SuperTape and our NEW Glitter Dust! I love the ruffled piece stitched at the top and the leaf trim that underlines the phrase.

Melissa’s second card is the same sketch but looks completely different! This card uses Sticky Strip Runner and Medium Zots to attach the buttons…And who doesn’t have leftover buttons laying around!?! Great way to use them and I love the ticket stub border at the top. So cute!

And a fun yet inspiring version by Alice Golden
Alice used the Sticky Tape Runner and Foam Squares. You can see she used two shades of blue to lightly stamp the sentiment in the background of the paper. I LOVE the rainbow ric-rac as the top stripe!

* Buy More Get More sale ends June 1, 2012. Not to be combined with other offers. Not available on previous orders. Must use TROOPS code for discount.

Boys Will Be Boys May 22, 2012

Hello there! Today I’m sharing a set I designed that would be great for a boy’s room – although it would be easy to re-create this in any theme simply by swapping out the papers. Used a bunch of different adhesives on this project starting with SuperTape to adhere the papers securely to the sides of the glossy white paper surface of the drawer unit. I added tape along the outer edges only to prevent the paper from wrinkling. By the way, all of these projects were created using a single 12×12 kit from Me & My Big Ideas called Boys Will Be Boys.

I found that the Memory Tape Runner XL worked really well for adhering the smaller pieces of paper to the drawer fronts.

I used the SuperStik Glue Stick to adhere the even smaller pieces of paper used to embellish the drawer fronts, such as the green alphabet paper layered below the turquoise dot here. I choose the SuperStik whenever I want to give myself a bit of wiggle room when lining up papers as it takes a minute or two to set. Craft Zots are great for adhering chipboard elements to paper when you want to add just a little bit of dimension… they are thicker than the Memory Zots, but not as thick as our 3D Zots.

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This dino sticker came with a googly eye already attached, but it is easy to give other stickers personality by adding googly eyes using one of the tiny Zots for Bling.

Sometimes stickers come with foam adhesive already attached… I love to mix up the heights of dimensional adhesives to add extra interest…. try stacking two foam squares on top of each other (as I did on the “Rough & Tough” sticker).

In addition to the set of drawers, I covered a $3 lampshade from IKEA with matching papers using SuperTape.

I also used my SuperStik Glue Stick to cover an inexpensive photo mat with scraps of paper left over from the other projects.

Thanks for stopping by today! Hope these projects gave you some ideas for using your paper stash to create one-of-a-kind pieces for your home. Until next time…

For the love of pinwheels… May 21, 2012

Hello and welcome to Monday!  Hoping you all had a wonderful weekend!  So, my daughters are just in love with pinwheels these days…they draw and/or create them daily for a friend, for one another, or just because.

Wanting to document their love for pinwheels, I created a little keepsake for our home:

I paired them with some sweet sentiments and added the pinwheel tags to a frame:)

And here’s how we create these pinwheels:

Start with any sized square…this one happens to be 3×3″.  I’ve marked in black where to make the cuts, leaving about the size of a dime in the center uncut.

After making the cuts, I add a 3D Zot to the center.  The dimension is perfect because it grabs onto the corners so nicely.

You will fold each half of each triangle up so the tip holds onto the Zot.

And then embellish the center any way you wish.  I chose to wrap some bakers twine around an ICraft Dot.

Here’s the fabulous Therm O Web products used on this project:

Sticky Dot Runner

Foam Squares

3D Zots

ICraft Dots

Thanks for stopping by, and let us know what you think about our new ICraft line!

Erin Yamabe

Quick Card with the new ICraft tapes and circles May 17, 2012

Here is a quick card I made for a friend that is not feeling very well.  It was super easy to make using some scraps of paper and ribbons.  I embossed the flower at the top and then used the ICraft tape to secure my crochet lace and an ICraft Circle to secure my leaf and ribbon flower.  I added some letter stickers and my card is done.

I hope you have a great rest of the week.

Jenifer

Have a sweet day May 16, 2012

Hi everyone! Daniela here today with a card  using my favorite Therm O Web Products.

I love adhering lace using Zots Adhesive Dots by Therm O Web. They come in different sizes and adhere really well to any surface.

 3D Foam Squares by Therm O Web are perfect for those cut out images.

I am using Medium Zots Adhesive Dots by Therm O Web for the flower.

And, of course, to adhere all the paper I use Sticky Strip Runner by Therm O Web.

Thank you for stopping by and I hope you find these tips helpful.

Have a great day.

Daniela Dobson

A 3D Visual Triangle May 15, 2012

Sometimes on a layout I like to make a visual triangle out of 3 dimensional objects to help move the viewer’s eye around the page. I started this layout by adding a stacked journaling sticker and wanted to make a 3D visual tringle using a few basic die cuts rather than more stacked stickers. It was as easy as adding a few 3D Zots to the back of the die cuts and voila…

three cute popped up images that help move the eye while keeping the focus on the photo at the center of the triangle.

Rebecca

Supplies Used:

Therm O Web Memory Runner XL, Therm O Web 3D Zots, Imaginisce papers, die cuts, bling

 

Birthday Invitations May 14, 2012

Around my house May means birthdays and birthday parties.  I love making invitations for my daughters’ birthday parties.  Often we get email invitations or web invitations, so when my kids hand deliver their paper hand crafted invitations they really stand out!  I like to create a design in Photoshop and then add papers, ribbons, or other embellishments to give it texture.  Quite often I pop up part of the design with Therm O Web 3D Foam Adhesive, as is the case with these two invites.

 

In the first one I popped up the text block over patterned paper and ribbon.  The second one I digitally die cut old-fashioned movie cameras, sprayed them with Therm O Web Glitter Dust, and popped it up with 3D Foam Squares.  I also have a habit of matting the entire invite with a solid cardstock.  I attach the solid cardstock with Therm O Web Sticky Strip Runner.

 

Grab a cake, lights some candles, blow up the balloons, and create your next birthday party invitations.  They are surprisingly quick and easy and handmade invitations set a great mood for the party to follow!

  

Cheers!

Mother’s Day Frames May 11, 2012

Get your kids involved in today’s project!  My girls made their grandmothers a frame with flowers using 1 1/2 inch iCraft Adhesive Dots, Zots, and Glitter Dust.  The entire project took us only 60 minutes including paint drying time.  We found inexpensive wood frames at the craft store and painted them.  Then we built the flowers.

We started with a 1 1/2″ iCraft Adhesive Dot.  Then we placed the first layer of petals on top of the iCraft Dot.  After the first set of petals we used a Large Zot to attach the next layer.  And so on…

  

After the flowers were created we sprayed them with Glitter Dust.  If my kids are helping with a project there is no way we can complete it without Glitter Dust.  They love it so much!

Then it was easy to peel off the iCraft backing and stick the flower onto the wood frame!

  

Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms out there!  Enjoy your weekend and I hope you are treated like a queen!

The Learning Center Prize!!! May 10, 2012

Thank you to all the visitors we had from The Learning Center! We hope that you will check back with our little blog for fun ideas and tips for your upcoming projects!

And the winner of our HeatnBond Prize Pack is…(insert drumroll here…) is #112, Jean Mullins! Congratulations Jean! Jean please email me your address so we can send out your prize…

Random winner for prize

Mother’s Day: A first May 10, 2012

Hello and Happy Thursday to you Therm O Web fans!  After becoming a Mom over a decade ago, it’s nice to look back at the “early” years…so I chose this photo of my two little girls, taken back in May 2007, the first Mother’s Day I was a Mom of two.

Even though it took well over 50 shots to get this ONE…am I grateful to have it!

The ICraft sheet was perfect for the doily, and the Bling Zots were spot on for the little wooden piece!

The ICraft dots were perfect to adhere the handmade YoYo flower from the Paper Bakery kit too!

Other fabulous Therm O Web products used were:

Sticky Strip Runner

Foam Squares

Zots medium

ICraft Tape

Wishing all of you Moms out there a wonderful Mother’s Day with you and your loved ones!

XOXO

Erin Yamabe