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The Stamps of Life with Stephanie Barnard: Introducting... spinner2stamp!

The Stamps of Life with Stephanie Barnard: Introducting... spinner2stamp!: Hello My Friends! Woo hoo! It's the 1st and that means a new stamp set... spinner2stamp !!! 15 stamps on a 4x6 sheet. The large...

"Wear your adhesive on the outside" by 3L Scrapbook Adhesives with a little help from Clearsnap Designer Foils

1) Remove liner paper from Designer Shape. Here we are using Scrapbook Adhesives 3D Foam Snowflakes, but you can use any Scrapbook Adhesives products.  

2) Gently rub Clearsnap Designer Foil onto exposed adhesive, with the shiny side of the foil facing up.

3) Pull foil from adhesive. You may need to fill in some areas, just repeat with colored foil contacting exposed adhesive until covered.

4) Remove Designer Shape from sheet, carefully lifting the detailed areas, align onto project and adhere.

 

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Marvy Border Punch Cartridge for Creative Memories Border Punch System

With a minor modification you can use the Marvy Border Punch Cartridges (Cleaver Lever Quick Borders Craft Punch System) with the Creative Memories (CM) Border Punch System.  Marvy Border Punch Cartridges come in 8 beautiful designs.

On the bottom of the punches are small groves that enable to punch to slide into the punch lever.  The CM Punch has 2 groves and the Marvy Punch has only one.  In order for the Marvy Punch to slide into the CM lever the groves need to be gently filed down to match. See below for a comparison.     

The punches stack nicely on top of each other.  You need to mark the mark the Marvy Punch where the groves need to be filed down.  

We used the Black and Decker grinder pictured above to gently create matching groves in the Marvy punch.  

You can also an ordinary stainless steel nail file to file the plastic down.  

The Marvy cartridge will now slide gently into the CM lever.

See below for the beautiful new border.

There is one major difference when using the Marvy cartridges vs the CM cartridges, the Marvy punches don't conveniently pop out of the CM lever when the eject button is pushed, they need to be gently pulled out of the lever.

Please feel free to post any questions you may have and we will be happy to help you.  We also invite you to shop our online store for this and other quality paper crafting products Memorys By Design

Clearsnap Designer Foils

This month we have introduced the Brilliant and Shiny Designer Foils from Clearsnap into our product line.  Look here to see the colors they come in:

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Clearsnap has been around for over 20 years, manufacturing many favorites including Cat’s Eye and Stephanie Barnard Ink Pads and Refills, Smooch and Smooch Spritz

Each package comes with 6 sheets of one color foil each sheet is 8.75" x 2.25".  That is a lot of shiny goodness to have!  There are various stickers available to use with the foils our favorite is 3L Scrapbook Adhesives Foam Shapes.  These products are quite simple to use.

1.  Apply the sticker to your project.
2.  Place foil shiny side up on top of the sticker.
3.  Rub to transfer

It really is that simple!  And below is the completed card with 3L Scrapbook Adhesives Silver Photo Corners.

These foils have many uses and can be used with just about any type of 2 sided sticker.

• Foils has a nice shine to it
• Lots of colors available to use
• Easy to apply and use
• No mess
• You get a ton of use from one package of foils

Pick some up today and add some shimmer and sparkle to all of your papercraft projects.