Spellbinders Springtime Shipping Frenzy – Day #1

Hello Blog Friends!!!! 

A warm welcome to everyone and especially to all you Spellbinders® fans coming to check out today’s Shipping Frenzy project!  Today, I’m excited to share a project that showcases some of the new A Gilded Life products.  If you aren’t familiar with Spellbinders A Gilded Life products, check them out on their  website HERE.   Good News!  This incredible line of products can be found in a Jo-Ann Fabric and Craft Store near you the week of April 6th!
 I know you’re all scrolling down to see the project……so here it is!

 

This small handmade album has been decorated using A Gilded Life dies, bezels and texture plates.  The album is 5 ¾ x 7 ½ʺ with cardstock pages.  The supply list is after the directions.

Here are the directions....

Cut stiff chipboard covers: 2 - ⅞ x 7 ½ʺ; 2 – 5 x 7 ½ʺ

Align one of each piece with ⅛ʺ gap.  Place hinge tape over gap and cover pieces wrapping it to cover both sides.  Repeat for other cover.

 

Apply PVA glue to front of one cover.  Glue rice paper over cover.  Wrap to inside and glue mitering corners.  Use bone folder to press paper into gap.  (I used rice paper as a first layer because it’s strong and I wanted the cover to be durable.  This step could be eliminated.)  Repeat for other cover
Again use PVA glue to fasten mulberry paper to both covers.  Wrap to inside and glue.

Cut Kraft card stock a little smaller than cover for inside.  Align on cover and mark fold/gap.  Score cardstock.  Use Xyron to apply permanent adhesive to one side.  Fasten to inside of cover.  Repeat for other cover.

 

Ink French Script texture plate with Memento Luxe Rich Cocoa and press against covers just as you would a stamp. 

 

 

Rub VersaMagic Pixie Dust direct to paper  over Kraft card stock

Cut with Grand Calibur® machine: Vintage Brocade rectangle.  Cut/emboss Rose Medallion and 2 – Quatrefoil Bands.

Use Wrought Iron texture plate to emboss rectangle.

 

Apply Metallic Lustre to all pieces starting with Champagne Ice.  Then add touches of Gold Rush.  Finally add just a touch of Iced Espresso.  I used that mostly on the Quatrefoil bands.   I rub the Metallic

Lustre on with my finger.  (The easiest way to clean it off your finger is to press against sticky side of tape)

 

Apply 2ʺ Scor-Tape to Kraft card stock.  Tape Petite Monarch die over Scor-Tape.  Cut using Junior Metal Shim, base plate and pink embossing plate.  The Scor-Tape backing is very tough to cut.  The metal shim makes it cut easier. 

 

Remove tape backing.  Sprinkle with Vintage Glass Glitter.  Press glitter into tape. 

 

 

Then sprinkle with Flax glitter and remove excess.  Because the Vintage Glass is quite coarse there are gaps between so the Flax glitter fills in those spaces.

 

Fasten Quatrefoil Bands to spine area of each cover with Scor-Tape.  I also used glue along the edges.

 Fasten embossed rectangle along right edge with craft glue.

Fasten Rose Medallion strip over rectangle using Scor-Tape and glue.  Place it about ¼ʺ from left edge of rectangle.

 

Glue glittered Petite Monarch piece along left edge of rectangle.  (I forgot a photo, see on album cover

 

 

 Glue gathered tulle along Rose Medallion with 3 in 1 Craft Glue. 

 

Thread gold cord through organdy trim. Glue it over edge of tulle trim.

Stitch rhinestone band to trim at top & bottom.

 

 

Cut organdy heart with Hearts die.  Use metal shim sandwich to cut it.

 

 

String pearls on thread.  (I used 26) Knot thread. Glue to edge of organdy.

 

Place glue around outer edges Hearts Bezel Small – Bronze.  Press organdy heart and pearls into bezel.

 

 

Make small tassel with pearl cotton.  Wrap wire around top. Fasten to bezel with pearl cotton.

 

 

Glue Rhinestone in gold spacer bead.  Glue in bezel.Tie bezel to trim on album front.  Add crystals and pearls along points of glittered Petite Monarch strip.

 

Cut pages 5 ¾ x 7 ¼ʺ from cream card stock. 

 

Cut 1 x 7¼ʺ strips to add to envelopes.  Fasten to bottom edge of envelope with Scor-Tape so they are same size as pages.  Emboss envelope flaps.

 

Punch two holes in edge of each cover.  Insert and set bronze eyelets.

Mark pages for holes.  Punch holes in all pages and envelopes

Stack covers and pages.  Thread ribbons through front eyelet, pages and back cover and back through back cover, pages and out front cover.  I used a piece of wire folded to slip over ribbon ends.  It works like a needle only easier to slip ribbon into it.  Tie in bow.

Voila!   A beautiful album!

I hope I've inspired you today!  Lots of exciting new products and maybe some new techniques for you! 

 

Happy Creating!

 

Judy

• Supplies
• Spellbinders® GC-001 Grand Calibur machine
• Spellbinders® GLSB-001 Small Heart Bezel – Bronze
• Spellbinders® GLD-001 Hearts Die
• Spellbinders® GLLD-001 Petite Monarch
• Spellbinders® GLT-003 Wrought Iron
• Spellbinders® GLLD-005 Rose Medallion
• Spellbinders®GLLD-003 Quatrefoil Band               
• Spellbinders® GLT-004 French Script
• Spellbinders® GLLD-007 Vintage Brocade (cutting edge only)
• Spellbinders® GC-016 Junior Metal Shim
• Art Institute Glitter™ - Vintage Glass Glitter Krystallos, Flax Ultra Fine Transparent
• Connie Crystal – tiny crystals
• Scor-Pal – Scor-Tape ½ʺ, 2ʺ
• Beadalon – Artistic Wire Bronze 24 gauge
• DecoArt - Metallic Lustre Champagne Ice, Gold Rush, Iced Espresso
• KaiserCraft – Pearls Champagne
• Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko – VersaMagic™ Pixie Dust
• Beacon - Quick Grip™ Adhesive, 3 in 1 Craft Glue
• Xyron – Permanent Adhesive
• Chipboard
• Linen Hinge Tape
• Mulberry Paper - tan
• Rice Paper
• Vintage Rhinestone Bracelet & Large Rhinestone
• Gold Spacer Bead
• Pearls
• Bronze Eyelets and setter
• Vintage Rhinestone ban 
• Cream Seam Binding
• Gold Mesh Ribbon
• Gold Cord
• Ivory Pearl Cotton
• Organdy Fabric
• Ruffled Tulle Trim
• Organdy Trim
• Kraft Card Stock
• Cream Card Stock
• White Craft Glue
• PVA Glue
• Ivory Envelopes – 5 x 7ʺ

Here's the link to join in on the fun celebrating shipping of Spellbinders new products! You have a chance to win some of the new A Gilded Life products that I used on my album today!

Enter for a chance to win HERE!

 

For more chances to win, visit Becca Feeken’s blog, Amazing Paper Grace, for another inspiring Spellbinders’ project!

Official Contest Rules can be found HERE

Questions?  ContestQuestions@Spellbinders.us.  No entries will be accepted at this email address

 And more inspiration......

 

....a pendant created with Large Iron Cross  Bezel - Bronze.  More details soon!