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Jan 20, 2012

Printing on Scrapbooking Tags

I love cute manufacturer’s journalling tags, and I’m sure that you do too! Sometimes I don’t like the look of my own handwriting, or I just want a different look – like a vintage typewriter style font, for example. I found solution so that I can get my home printer to print on the manufacturer’s tags. Here’s how…

Measure the area on your tag that you want to print on.
I used Microsoft Word for this because most of you will have it. Open Word and create a new document. Click on the Insert tab and then click on insert text box.
A text box will appear.
Resize the text box to the appropriate size by setting the size in the upper right hand corner of the Word control bar.
By default, Word adds a black outline around the text box. You will need to remove it by clicking on shape outline and setting it to none. You don’t want that black box printing on your tag.
Type out your journalling in the text box and then print it onto a plain piece of paper. Adjust it and print it again if you’re not satisfied with the way it looks. Remember to spell check because once it’s on your tag, it’s there for good!
If your tag is a sticker you will need to make it less sticky, so that you can remove it after printing on it. I used a Sassafras tag here and they are very sticky. To make it less sticky I stuck it to my jeans and then removed it and then I did it again. It picked up some of the link and made the tag a little less sticky. If you are using a tag that doesn’t already have adhesive on the back, then apply a repositionable adhesive to the back, or apply a non-repositionable adhesive and make it a bit less sticky by using my jean-lint method! For a lot of advesives, you could also gently dab the advesive with your fingers. This will make it less sticky as well.
Adhere your tag directly over top of the journalling space lining it up exactly with the printed words centered directly underneath the tag. If you have trouble doing this, hold up the tag to a light source (a window or a lampsade work well) and you will be able to see the journalling through the tag and place it in the correct spot.
Put the piece of paper with the tag on it back into the printer (ensuring that you put it back in the same direction it was when you began) and print again.
Very carefully remove the tag from the paper and adhere it your layout!

Here are some examples of layouts where I’ve used this method:

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Scrapsation, Kate Vickers, Ontario, canada

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Dec 14, 2011

Echo Park and The Twinery Tri-Fold Card Tutorial

I saw one of these tri-fold cards about a week ago online and I instantly loved the look! I really like the 3D feeling look of this type of card. So, I tried one… got it wrong. Then I tried another one… got that one wrong again… 3 expensive pieces of cardstock later, I finally figured it out. So, to save you some time and money I thought that I would make an easy tutorial and a template. Maybe I will save someone out there a few cents and spare them a few pieces of wasted cardstock.

Here is the finished card. I used The Season’s Greetings Collection by Echo Park, a Tim Holtz / Sizzix Snowflake die and twine from The Twinery. The Merry Christmas die cut is by Silhouette America, cut with my Silhouette Cameo (Santa came early this year!).

Here is a simple, self-explanatory template on how to create this type of card. The key is to keep the main three panels the same size. I didn’t realize that when I started out! Also, the folds alternate — towards you (mountain), away from you (valley), repeat, repeat… I hope that makes sense. If not, please let me know.

Click on the image to download the larger printable version.

Linking up to these parties.

Scrapsation, Kate Vickers, Ontario, canada

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Dec 13, 2011

Paper Weaving for Scrapbooking and Cards

I’m loving anything that reminds me of quilting in scrapbooking lately. Here is a really fun and easy technique to add a lot of interest to a page.

Start with 12 strips of 12 ” X 1/4 “. Mine were from all different papers, but this works well with papers that are all the same or some are the same, some are not. Anything goes, really.
Lay out half of the strips length-wise and half of them width-wise overlapping them. Rearrange them until you’re happy with the way that the patterns are playing together.
Weave them together as shown here. Start at the bottom and work your way up. The pattern is under over under over, etc.
Once you have completed the weaving and you’re happy with the way that it’s looking, very carefully move your weaved paper over and put some adhesive directly on your background paper as shown here.
Again, very carefully, move the weaved paper back over to it’s original spot and apply it onto the adhesive. Don’t press it down until you’re happy that everything is lining up as it should. I had to pull on mine a bit here and there to get it square.
Trim off the ends to your desired length. I trimmed mine at random lengths and angles. Here is a closeup.

Here is my finished layout! I hope that you like it!

Here is a closeup of the misting and the heat embossed camera stamping.