Materials for all of today's projects!
~ArtEmboss craft metal: Medium weight Pewter kit (includes wood stylus and patterns), lightweight Sea Green and Cerulean Blue Aluminum (*AMACO)
~22 Gauge black Fun Wire-1 yard (*AMACO)
~Eberhard Faber easy-pen: leafing size adhesive in pen form!(*AMACO)
~Eberhard Faber easy-metal abalone metal leaf sheets (*AMACO)
~12" square scrapbook papers (**Karen Foster Design): Bumper Car Blue #60398, Green Ticket #60399, Lockers #60373, Lined Paper #60261, Particle Board #60273, Blueprints #60275, Blueprints Reversed #60276, Fifties Collage #60386, Nifty Fifties #60387, Water #63000, Sandy Beach #60220, Green Fish Texture #60442, Red Canvas #60443
~Scrapbook Stickers (**Karen Foster Design): Ransom Letters #10412, Graduation #10368, Amusement Park Font, #10424The Fifties #10418, Fifties Phrases #10419, Fishing Phrases #10440, Fishing #10441, Shells #10366, Pebble Beach #10378, Clear Life Quotes stickers #49008
~Metal Embellishments (**Karen Foster): Mini Brad Bugs #01101, Flower Mini Brads #01102, Sea Life Paper Clips #01100, Self-Adhesive Nickel Photo Corner 2 #00702, Black Mini Brads #00107, Antique Mini Brads #00114
~12" square white and tan cardstock
~1/4" thick foam core board
~Metal Ruler; X-Acto type craft knife and cutting mat
~Extra thick craft foam sheet (a leather looking foam)
~Adhesive 'dots' tape runner (I like Hermafix)
~Fiskars Paper Trimmer tool
~Felt to match bookend color
~Aleene's: Quick Grab Tacky Glue, Super Gel Instant Adhesive, Ultimate Hot glue gun & glue sticks
~Paper, Rock, Scissors Dimensional 3-D foam Mounting Squares
~Fiskars scissors for Paper
~Fiskars Softgrip Metalworks scissors
~Deckle edge scissors
~Soft paintbrush
~White chalk pencil or chalkboard chalk
~Photo or color copy of a photo
*AMACO (American Art Clay Company) carries many craft and art supplies on their website under the heading "Arts & Crafts" at www.amaco.com. Or, you can call them at (800) 374-1600 (toll-free)
**You'll find lots of other great papers, stickers and more at the Karen Foster Design website at: www.karenfosterdesign.com A list of stores near you that carry her line on her "Contact Us" page. Need more inspiration? Check out Karen's "Scrapbook Samples" page!
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Fabulous Bookends!
Go Fish
1. Lay bookend flat onto foam core and trace around shape with pen.
2. Slice foam core with X-Acto knife only half way through thickness on the first cut, then all the way through with the second cut.
3. Lay foam core shape on metal and lightly trace shape. Remove board and cut metal sheet 3/4" LARGER on all four sides using Metalworks scissors.
4. Clip metal corners 1/4" from foam core.
BEACH GIRL: step 5. Round corners on beach photo with punch or scissors.
GO FISH: step 5. Mat your photo with scrap paper that's 1/4" larger all around using tape runner. Secure edges well!
6. Secure fishing phrase and fishing lure stickers (or sandy beach and seashells) around border area.
7. Place metal over craft foam sheet and emboss gently around photo and stickers with wood stylus (see close up image at right).
GO FISH: step 8. Emboss random curly lines to imitate a tangled fish line on the front of metal.
BEACH GIRL: step 8. Texture blue metal background by repeatedly pressing the rounded end of wood stylus tool firmly over surface.
9. Turn embossed metal to the backside and "puff out" the inside of sticker outline areas by rubbing with rounded end of stylus tool.
10. Fill each indented 'pool' with hot glue (don't overfill, just keep glue level). This prevents dimensional areas from being crushed.
11. Trace foam core shape onto adhesive sticker paper with pen, and also onto felt (use chalk pencil). Cut out both shapes.
12. Apply Tacky Glue to foam core, spread to a thin even layer and secure to back of embossed metal.
13. Place backside of foam core on bookend. Bend metal around to the back of the bookend using a bed corner fold at rounded corners.
14. Burnish the edges gently with side of wood stylus tool.
15. Secure the felt to the back of bookend to cover metal flaps by applying Tacky Glue to felt and pressing in place.
16. For a decorative touch, squeeze a tiny dot of Super Gel onto tip of brads and push into side edges of GO FISH metal bookend (or around beach photo) spacing brads evenly.
17. Allow all glues to dry.
Instructions are basically the same for the Fifties Bookend. Simply omit the photo, and add a stippled texture (as beach bookend) to some background areas between two curly lines. Black brads are used around the edge (as GO FISH) of this design.
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Six Coordinating Cards
Construction Card
1. Use trimmer to slice a 4" strip off of 12" piece of white cardstock. Fold larger piece in half to form a 4" x 12" tall card base.
2. Cut and secure a 4" x 12" piece of Blueprints paper to cover with tape runner.
3. Cut and secure a 3 1/2 x 11 1/2" piece of Reversed Blueprint paper as a mat.
4. And finally add a 3" x 11" piece of particle board paper.
5. Add stickers randomly as shown (angled) and you're done!
Lockers Card
1. Follow step 1 above for card base.
2. Cut a 4" strip (one locker door) off locker paper, and secure lines of tape runner to the back.
3. Slide a nickel photo corner onto locker paper corners, remove protective liner from metal corners to expose adhesive and press panel onto card front.
4. Add title in ransom sticker letters.
5. Fold the remaining 8" wide locker paper (two locker doors) in half lengthwise, and secure inside card with tape runner.
6. Cut two 3" x 11" Bulletin Board paper panels with deckle scissors. Add little notes to grad using Lined Paper, securing with Bugs and Flower Brads.
7. Secure panels to locker doors (inside card) using several foam Mounting Squares.
Grad Cap Card
1. Follow step 1 above for card base, and step two using Bumper Car paper.
2. Secure a strip of Green Tickets 1/2" from edge of blue paper with tape runner.
3. Secure grad cap and diploma stickers on tickets strip spacing evenly.
4. Spiral one end of black wire and thread on card title letter stickers in order. Curve and loop wire as you add to card.
5. Spiral end and clip off excess wire. Add a sticker to inside with a short piece of wire, spiraled at each end if desired.
6. Add a Green Tickets pocket inside card with a 7 1/2"W x 5 "H paper piece. Secure side and bottom edge only with tape runner.
Fifties Card
1. Follow step 1 and 2 above using Fifties Collage paper.
2. Cut and secure a rounded corner old TV screen shape from Nifty Fifties paper to cover.
3. Thread fuzzy white yarn into tag stickers and secure. Add a note and record sticker (The Fifties sticker sheet) and the card is finished!
Happy Father's Day Card
1. Follow steps 1 and 2 above using tan cardstock, textured fish paper and red canvas paper (tear edge).
2. Secure Fishing font stickers for title.
3. Thread thin jute through tag hole, and connect fish stickers at the bottom (and top) with a folded strand of jute.
Graduation Beach Card
1. Follow steps 1 and 2 above using Sandy Beach (tear edge) and Water paper.
2. Secure three Pebble Beach stickers and a clear Life Quote sticker.
3. Write "congratulations" using easy-pen and let dry 15 minutes. Press on leaf and dust excess with paintbrush.
4. Cut tiny slits in cover paper to add paper clips.
5. Secure clear sticker quote inside card and enjoy!
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