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     Hey everyone!  I’m here today with a double header.  It is my first project for my new team called Stinkin’ Inkers, and also uses products from my other team, ScraPerfect.  
     The challenge this month at Stinkin’ Inkers is to create a project surrounding being thankful.  This is a photo I took at the beach less than three months after our daughter was born.  I am thankful that I got to spend the last few days of my maternity leave making memories with my parents and kiddos (hubby couldn’t stay as long as we did).  

     You can see that several of my embellishments on this page are dimensional.  The flair, enamel dots and chipboard.  I attached all of these using my glue of choice…The Best Glue Ever.  If you haven’t seen my video about the strength of this glue please head over to my youtube channel.  It really is great.

     The products on this layout are from the Felicity Jane Summer kit.  This is the last layout from that kit that I’ll be sharing.  I got eight from the kit in total.  Until next time…stay crafty!

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Tips For Easy Sparkling Embellishment Creation

Hey Scrappy Friends!  I’m here today with my tip on using transfer foil to create easy and sparkling embellishments. 
     Prior to join the ScraPerfect team I have never worked with foils, but I saw they had so much potential to help me create tiny embellishments for my pages.  Using glue though I wasn’t having great success.  I know the other ladies use it to perfection, but I just couldn’t get it even enough for my liking.  Everything was bumpy, and that wasn’t what I was going for in this case.
     I set them aside and got to thinking.  What could I do to make my adhesive application more even.  I thought about watering The Best Glue Ever down and using a brush, but that was more work than I wanted.  I wanted something quick and easy, and finally it came to me.  My Xyron machine!  I have two, but I used the smaller one to test my idea.
     I cut a piece of cardstock to fit…ran it through the machine, and applied the foil.  Look at the perfect, and even, coat of foil on my paper.  I finally had the look I was going for!
     I then took the tiny punches I keep on my desk for exactly this sort of thing and went to town.  I now have perfectly covered and smooth embellishments in my extras container using my scrap cardstock.
     I now have two perfect ways to use my foil.  Glue for texture and Xyron for smooth.  Hope that gives you a new idea on how to use your foils.
     

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How my favorite ink pad was saved

Hey Scrappy Friends!  If you’ve been following me for a bit you know that I like to find creative uses to use my Best Glue Ever.  I have another one for you today.
     My baby girl LOVES my ink pads for some reason.  I have to drag her away from them at least five or six times a day.  Well, before I could get to her the other day she managed to rip my favorite color ink pad apart.
     I knew it needed to be a special glue to repair this because I didn’t want to compromise the ink.  Best Glue Ever is good for use with foam so I figured I’d give it a try.

     Look at how little  glue it took to stick the ink pad versus the original!

     I also took the above pictures for you holding the ink pad upside down and sideways to show how well it stuck!  I’m so glad that my favorite color ink pad could be saved since I can’t procure these locally.  Keep watching for more creating ways to use the ScraPerfect products.

How Embellie Gellie Saved My Father’s Day

     Hey Scrappy Friends!  I wanted to share with you how the Embellie Gellie saved our Father’s Day.   I make my own enamel dots and received on order for over 1,000 the Saturday of Father’s Day.  I needed have them shipped Monday, and I didn’t have all the colors on hand.
         I went ahead and made a ton of colors, but they still needed to be packed. 
     Normally I do this all by hand and it takes me forever.  With my Embellie Gellie though I was able to go in and pick up just the colors I was looking to pack.
     I was able to pack my whole order while still spending time at the park with my family and having a cook out with my Father.
   What could have taken hours and hours with Embellie Gellie took no time at all.  Thanks for saving my Father’s Day!

A sweet, quick, easy sibling one page layout

     Hi Scrappy Friends!  I’m back today sharing a layout I created of our son and daughter when she was just a newborn.  This photo of him just laying and staring at her just melts my heart.  While she doesn’t lie still now he loves her even more.
     For this layout I used the Pink Paislee penpal collection. On the heart paper near the bottom though I also used some gesso to town down how bright the colors were since I wanted a soft feel since the picture is so sweet.   

     I also wanted to show you how The Best Glue ever solved a frew scrappy problems I ran into during creating this.  The photo above you can see how my tap runner lifted right up because of the dimension of my layers.  
     In the photos below you’ll see I have some clear die cuts I wanted to use.  I used BGE on the clear leaves and see how you can’t even see it!

     Well,  I better run – we need to leave for work/school in 45 minutes and no one is even out of bed yet!!!