Chipboard Frame Tutorial

When I was away on my trip to Bermuda, I saw this project at the project share. I do not know who the original artist is, but it is beautiful! If you are or know the person who designed this project, please contact me so I can give proper credit.

Anyway ~ It is a 9 1/2” square scrapbook page ~ mounted to a piece of our large book chipboard.

I thought, how fabulous! Now I can display scrapbook pages in a “framed” format. Except, I needed to figure out a way to mount a stand of some sort. What else but more chipboard popped in my head.. here’s what I did.

1. I designed some pages of my own.

2. Cut a piece of chipboard from the smaller book kits. It measures 5 x 7 ½. I cut 2 inches off the long end to make a nice sturdy stand. The finished peice will be 5 x 2 inches. Stampin' Up's Table Top paper cutter, cuts the chipboard like butter.

3. Next, With a hobby blade and mat, slice your chipboard at the 4 inch mark, leaving a one inch section .

4. Apply crystal effects to that one inch section.
5. Line up where you would like the frame to stand and attach the back.
6. Lay it flat to dry. And use your finger to support it for one minute. You may add a little extra crystal effects to the part that you cut with the hobby blade for stability. Note: At this point I also added crystal effects to the line that folded out. this will make sure that your frame stand wont move or break.

Enjoy your homemade frame/Scrapbook Art! This one is going to my husband for his desk. It's a photo of my daugher on dress up night during our Stampin' Up! cruise to Bermuda.

An Album for My Cousin

My cousin and his wife are pregnant, and they haven't found out the sex of the baby yet! This past weekend, we went to the baby shower (it was a Jack & Jill style shower so my hubby went too).

Anyway, I got them a gift card and made them this adorable album. I actually made it for the album in an afternoon class. One customer made two albums at the class! How fun!

I decorated the front of this album with a chipboard tag, covered it with paper using our anywhere glue sticks and glued it right to the front of the album with crystal effects!

Sweet Tile Class

How about using pure tumbled tile for stampin on tile. That's what we did at this weeks stamping class. Tile Coasters make a terrific gift or gift basket. Add a basket, some napkins, glasses and bottle of wine and you have a first class gift that would be good for almost anyone!

These tiles are "thirsty" and will accept the condensation from your glasses. Just stamp, color and bake. With craft ink, you can set it and forget it! LOL The heat from the oven sets the color into the stone and you have some really fabuous coasters. Ask me how!

Sensational Swaps! Jill M.

I love to color my images in, and sometimes I think it's more of a challenge to leave some of the image blank, spotlighting what is important in the picture. I really love this card because the flowers are colored and it's just enough. I think if it was colored, more it would be less effective. Awesome Card Jill!

Sensational Swaps! Michele G

Another Fabuous Swap! this one is by another of my talented downline Michele G. I love the window she made with our punches! Way to go Michele!

Sensational Swaps! Elise (Lil) C.

Another sensational swap. This one is in pomegranate and black. What an adorable birthday card! Great swap Elise!

Sensational Swaps! Carol H.

This month's team meeting was a Blast! Here is a fancy fold, called dahlia. Learn how to do this fold at May's technique Junky meeting on May 15th!

This card was created by my friend and fellow demonstrator Carol H.