I've been playing with my birthday presents, and I wanted to show you the first thing I cut on my Big Shot!
I actually used the QuickKutz "Dragonfly" font to make these mini chipboard letters. I cut a total of four layers: three with scrap white cardstock and one with the patterned paper I wanted. I put adhesive on the backs of all the letters with my Xyron X-Box, and then I layered them together. Once that was done, I glued them to the big Prima flower with Ranger Glossy Accents.
It was so much easier than making my own chipboard letters by hand with my craft knife ~ holy cow! I love my new toy and I have all kinds of plans for it! Yay!
Kathryn
Life's a beach. Scrapbook it.
P.S. That's a detail shot of the cover of a mini book I'm making for a friend of mine. I won't be doing a video series on this album coming together, but I will be posting pictures periodically. She knows I'm making it & I know she reads my blog, so I am going to be putting little teases and sneak peeks for her on my blog while I work on it to get her really excited for it. :D
hee!! Kathryn.. OMG your right!! you so caught me.. heck yeah I READ YOUR BLOG... HEEE I almost stalk it .. your projects are just so great :)
ReplyDeleteAND - I'M SO super excited to see the 'sneak peaks' - OMGOSH! I LOVE IT ALREADY just looking at this first 'sneak peak' and how fun it is to read HOW your doing it!!! SO pretty & FUN!! I'm way excited!! thank you :)
with a million grins,
steffogal1
Kathryn, this is a really cute font, I may have to pick this one up :-)
ReplyDeleteHave you tried running the chipboard from cereal boxes through your Big Shot? I do this all the time to make chipboard letters. It may save you two steps. It works very well if you are going to ink the edges to blend the chipboard color.
Keep enjoying your new toys :-)
Hope
Hiya, Hope! Thanks for the suggestion about the thinner chipboard. I need to start saving cereal boxes again to use in the Big Shot since all my chipboard is super thick.
ReplyDeleteSteff, you're adorable! Hmm ... what will I post a pic of next?
Kathryn
Life's a beach. Scrapbook it.
I am really glad you are enjoying your b-day present!! I save all boxes, kleenex, rice, cereal, crackers, etc... I like to use those boxes to make chipboard sandwiches for my mini-album covers.
ReplyDelete~Jill
Thanks for the "sandwich" advice, Jill! I am loving my birthday preent. My next big purchase will be some of those larger mini album cover dies ~ like the top note die. I would love to be able to se the chipboard I have to make neat shapes!
ReplyDeleteKathryn
Life's a beach. Scrapbook it.
Hi Kathryn, you are right those dies are great. You might want to visit sizzix.com they have a lot of the older dies on sale frequently even 70-75% off I recently got a few. They also have the thick dies alphas like Bosso frequently on sale. You can use the chipboard, and all kind of material and cut some pretty nice alphas. The thinner alphabets are only good for cardstock, but I use them a lot. Michaels had some of them for $9.99 (149.00 retail price) I already had all of them except for one which I got!!! great bargain. It was so good I got a couple for friends! So look it up. I haven't seen the newer x-large ones out yet, but I got the topnote mini one on line.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the advice, Genny! I will check out Michael's for some deals since I only have those two alphas right now!
ReplyDeleteKathryn
Life's a beach. Scrapbook it.