Clearsnap and Tombow Blog Hop

Hello and welcome to the Tombow USA and Clearsnap Blog Hop! For this hop we swapped products that were made for each other: Tombow Adhesives and Clearsnap Foils! On this hop we will share easy, affordable and fun ways to use Clearsnap's Designer Foils with Tombow adhesive as well as other fun ways Tombow and Clearsnap products work together. "Stick" with us for the next two days to be inspired!



You probably got here from Daniella’s blog, but if you simply stumbled across my wonderful blog head on over to the Tombow USA Blog to start!

I am digging the look of metallic foils on dark colored cardstock and am on a die cutting kick, so I decided to combine the two! I stamped my background floral image with watermark ink, then heat embossed it with clear embossing powder to give the foil something to stick to. Then I let my laminator get good and hot, laid a piece of Clearsnap Winter Sky Designer Foil over the top of it, and ran it through. I grabbed a word die and cut (3) words out of matching black cardstock and the last layer out of my foiled piece. To make it easier to inlay the words back in, I used my Tombow Mono Multi adhesive and Xtreme runner to add a scrap piece of cardstock to the back.

I used the Tombow Mono to make sure the little negative spaces of the die cut wouldn't peel up on me.

Time to start adding my word back in! I glued the (3) plain black layers together with dots of Tombow Mono, then added my foil piece on top. Once they were stacked I glued the whole pile to the foil piece and added my little negative space pieces back in.

Just look at the shine! It looks like we magically raised the word out of the paper - I love using this trick to add easy dimension to my cards. I grabbed my Xtreme runner (and used the last of my cartridge - eek!) and used that to adhere the foil panel to a standard A2 side-folding card base I created out of a deep teal cardstock. All done!

Did I mention there are prizes on this hop?



To win, visit and comment on the participating blog posts. You have until April 21st at 11:59 EST to comment. A winner will be picked randomly and announced on April 22, 2015.

The prize includes: Tombow Xtreme Adhesive, NEW Tombow Adhesive Dots, Tombow Stamp Runner Dot Adhesive and the Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Glue. Glitter – Gold Sparkle and Ruby Slippers, Designer Foils – Cherry


Here is the line up so you can be sure to stop at all of the blogs on the list:

Friday:

Tombow USA Blog

Sabrina Alery

Beth Watson

Jennifer Priest

Daniella Hayes

Guest Designer Jennifer Loftfield<<<that's me!

Jennie Garcia

Guest Designer Holly King

Latrice Murphy

Clearsnap Blog

Saturday:

Clearsnap Blog

Meihsia Liu

Latrice Murphy

Dana Tatar

Jennifer Priest

Suzanne Austin

Tami Sanders

Tombow USA Blog

Remember to “Like” Tombow USA and Clearsnap on Facebook!

YOUR NEXT STOP IS: Jennie Garcia's blog

Thanks for stopping by, and Happy Crafting!

The 12 Days of Cards - Day 4

Welcome back to Day 4 of the 12 Days of Cards series! Seeing as we had quite the snow storm the other day, I had snowflakes on the brain...

Seeing as I love a white Christmas, this is my kind of card. I've got the video on how I created it right here:

Be sure to swing by the Holiday Coffee Lovers Hop posts while you're here - I have some caffeinated blog candy for one good little crafter! :)

Supply List:
Lawn Fawn Stitched Snowflakes
Mama Elephant Merry Greetings Stamps
Pretty Pink Posh Stitched Borders 1 Dies
Pretty Pink Posh 6mm Clear Sequins
Pretty Pink Posh 4mm Clear Sequins
Ranger Liquid Platinum Embossing Powder
Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Glue
Ranger Multi Medium Matte
Neenah Solar White 110# Card Stock

Happy Crafting!

MPC Giving Thanks Blog Hop!

Hello hello everyone! Welcome to my stop on the Mountain Plains Crafters Giving Thanks blog hop!

We're so thrilled to be sponsored by Tombow and Unity Stamp Co. this month, and boy do they have some fun products to play with. Tombow's Xtreme Adhesive may be my new favorite "I said stick and stay stuck, dagnabbit!" adhesive. Seriously; you do not mess with this stuff! Of course, I own several (dozen) Unity stamps, so it was just a matter of finding one for the project.

I admit, I was a bit stumped at first...a DIY that isn't a card? Hmmm...been a while...so I went to Pinterest to see what I had pinned for future inspiration. Five hours later I finally made it to my idea board (don't laugh; you know you've done it) and rediscovered a mini calendar idea I found a while ago. Perfect!

Sort of.

The directions were a little...lacking. The idea was there, but I was left engineering some steps myself. So here we go, the Caffeinated Papercuts way of creating these adorable stand-up calendars:

• Start with a standard 4.25"x11" piece of cardstock. 
• Score at 5.5" to make a top-folding card
• Cut a second piece of cardstock down to 4.25"x5"
• Score at 1", 2.5" and 4" to create the interior 'stand'
• Using the Tombow Xtreme adhesive, attach the interior stand to the top folding card, applying tape at the 1" and 4" folds

To create the calendar, I simply purchased a digital calendar file and scaled it down to 2.5" wide. I used my Tombow Aqua Liquid glue to create a tear-off calendar; make sure the pages are even, then clip them on both ends with binder clips. I then applied a healthy dose of the glue with my finger and let it dry. Pretty easy!

While that dried, I stamped my sunflower and colored it in with my Spectrum Noir markers. A little fussy cutting and some clear Wink of Stella on the petals finished it off.

To decorate the top, I pulled out some 6"x6" patterned paper from my ginormous stash and ran it through my Big Kick with the gorgeous border from the Pretty Pink Posh Stitched Borders 2 set. A little Distress Ink to finish off the edges (Marmalade, I believe) and it's ready to go.

Assembly time! The scalloped border went on with foam adhesive, topped off with some Lawn Fawn twine. I attached my calendar pages with the Xtreme adhesive and the sunflower with more foam adhesive. Easy peasy! I've linked all the supplies I used after the giveaway. ;)

I'm the last stop for today, so head on back to the blog to see all of today's participants and get ready for round 2 tomorrow! Don't forget to enter our giveaway, winner will be announced 11/17 on the MPC blog:

Rafflecopter link: a Rafflecopter giveaway

Supplies Used:
Neenah Exact Index Cardstock, 250 Sheets, White, 94 Brightness
Zig - Zig Memory System Wink Of Stella Brush Tip Glitter Marker - Glitter
American Crafts Autumn Crisp 6x6 Fall Paper Pad
Tombow USA - Crafts Xtreme Permanent Adhesive High Performance Tape Runner Applicator, 1/3-Inch by 39-Feet
Mono Aqua Liquid Glue Carded, 1.69-Ounce
Lawn Fawn Lawn Trimmings Natural Cord
Pretty Pink Posh Stitched Borders 2
Unity Stamp Company 'Turn Toward the Light'

Thanks for stopping by, and Happy Crafting!