Thursday, February 28, 2013

Fun & Fabulous Folds Giveaway

I wanted to share a tutorial for an embellishment I made for a card in one of my upcoming classes, Fun & Fabulous Folds. Clear, acrylic embellishments are fun to work with but sometimes you just want to add a little something to dress them up.

Supplies:
  • clear embellishments, as you can see I am digging deep into my stash for this one. Please tell me someone else has ghost shapes too. 
  • an embossing folder, my personal preference is a small tight pattern so the shape is covered.
  • foam adhesive.
  •  an embellishment to hide the adhesive.

For this example I embossed 2 flowers with the Swiss Dots folder and then adhered them together with a foam dot. If you really want to keep it simple you can leave the flower as is and it still looks nice.



Here is my flower with a button covering the foam dot. It looks cute this way too. I didn't add thread to my button because I used a butterfly sticker on my final flower.



I hope this will inspire you to pull out your acrylic embellishments and use them differently. The thank you card I used it on is one of the examples in Fun and Fabulous Folds, so I can't show you the entire card.

Fun & Fabulous Folds starts March 14! click here for course description


But one lucky blog reader has a chance to win a seat in my upcoming Fun & Fabulous Folds 1 class that starts March 14. That way you can see the entire card. If you have already enrolled in the class don't worry you can play along too. If you win, we will refund your tuition.

To enter to giveaway, tell me what is your favorite paper crafting tool and why. That's it, easy peasy. The giveaway will end on Monday, March 4 at midnight. Good luck and I'll see you in class!



71 comments:

  1. OK--That is an awesome card!! Love the flower! Ghost shapes, huh? I have some clear butterflies--I'm am going to try to make a card with those!

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  2. Cute stuff- LOVE that flower!! Favorite tool... probably my Cutter-bee scissors because I seem to fussy cut everything.

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  3. I love that flower and now you have given me an idea of cutting flowers out of clear contact paper or plastic that always seems to come with things you buy. Oh and that Swiss Dots embossing folder seems to be the one I use the most. I so love it.

    I would say my favorite tool has to be my Silhouette Cameo because I can cut so many different materials with it and make my own embellishments.

    I do have on my list to buy some kind of score tool. Just not sure which yet to buy.

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  4. Very pretty use of the embossing folders on the clear flowers! Love it. Thanks for a chance to win!

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  5. I had a slow start but I am all caught with your postings. I've been organizing my stamps and have probably changed my system 3 times already but I think I got it down this time. Now I can start using them along with you.

    If I had to tell you one favorite tool I would have to say my ATG tape runner. It is a little big but for us crafters are always using adhesives, the ATG is very economical especially when you get 2 rolls in a pack and use a 50% or 40% coupon.

    I will keep my fingers crossed that I'm the winner of a wonderful MCC class..

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  6. Am still plugging along trying to get organized but life keeps getting in my way. I will get there eventually. Thanks for your patience. I love the flowers with embossing and thanks for sharing.
    My favorite tools are my ATG gun and cricut it was hard to pick just one so went with 2. Love both
    Thank you for the chance to win

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  7. I'm sad to say your are not the only one with ghost shapes. Very pretty card with the butterfly on top. My favorite is tool is the embossing folders. Thanks for the chance.
    Cindy F.

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  8. I think I was first WOW'd by my Cuttlebug! It opened a whole new world of crafting to me!

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  9. I guess I'd have to say my favorite paper crafting tool is the Big Shot because I can use many different kinds of dies with it. I especially like that I can cut so many materials with it - including acrylic. You've just inspired me to go cut some nice acrylic flowers. Then I can emboss them in that same Big Shot using some fun embossing folders!

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  10. It's got to be my Cuttlebug !! It was my very first big purchase in the crafting world of goodies and I have never stopped using it !! Really hope I am lucky !!

    hugs Diane xx

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  11. Favorite craft tool - hard to pick just one but I love my paper cutter, Score It, and Big Shot! Thanks for the chance to play - would love to be a part of this class. I always seem to get in a rut with the same old fold : )

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  12. Thank you for a chance to win a seat in this awesome class.

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  13. My favorite tool is my creative cutter. I use it to make die cuts, stencils, stamps. I even design a lot of my projects on it. Would love to win a class--I'm not very lucky -- but I always have hope my luck will change.

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  14. Love the swiss dots on the clear flower shapes. My favorite tool is my Big Kick do I can die cut and emboss.

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  15. My favorite tool is probably my rotary cutter and quilting rulers. I don't like using the typical paper cutters that are out there - I can never get my measurements to be precise.

    Now, I know what to do with my Heidi Swapp ghost flowers! Thanks for the chance to win!

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  16. Love the flower! My favorite tool is my Cricut as it opens so many worlds. Thanks for the chance to win. Pam

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  17. I have to choose just one! Oh, no! I guess I'd have to say my favorite tool is my Swingline ClassicCut Pro Guillotine Trimmer, with a wood base just like in elementary school. I use it more than any other tool I have.

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  18. My favorite tool of course is my hand!! Everything else is just an accessory. love yor cards, and thank you for posting these wonderful ideas for inspiration.

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  19. Great looking embellishments! My favorite tool is my heat gun - love to try out different embossing techniques to create interesting effects.

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  20. I haven't come across Ghost Shapes here in the UK, but I'll definitely look out for them now. What a lovely idea. Thank you for sharing.
    My favourite tool is my Hougie Board. It's a simple but ingenious scoring board, and I use it every time I craft. It's not the fanciest of tools, but it's the one I use most regularly and couldn't do without.

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  21. Cool shapes. Looks like fun. My fave tool right now is my new Cricut. I need to get a few more fun cartridges, but I love it. thanks.

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    1. Jenny,

      You are the winner of the free seat for Fabulous Folds I with Linda Dotterer. Please contact us at support.mcc@gmail.com.

      Thanks,
      Jeri'

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  22. I just love, love, love that you are using some of your older embellishments. This has really inspired me to do the same. When you do different things with them, they become new again! I even pulled out some magic mesh the other day. LOL.

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  23. I would have to say my favorie other than my trimmer would be the many diffrent adhesives I use. I tend to use more than one on every project.
    Thanks for sharing your talent with us all.

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  24. Love the acrylic flower, that looks like dotted swiss. Great idea! Can't wait to try it.

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    1. Sorry, forgot to add my favorite tool. Mine US the Big Shot. Because you can cut and embellish with it by using by using an embossing folder like you did with the flower. I love that idea. I've never thought to do that with acrylics.

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  25. I adore embossing folders. Taking plain smooth paper and give it texture and patterns is fun.
    Would love to win a seat. :)

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  26. Yes, I have a few ghost shapes down in the bottom of a drawer. Maybe I'll dig them out and try embossing them. That's a great idea! My favorite tool, at the moment, has to be my BigKick along with the many, many dies and embossing folders. They add so much to any card and they're easy to use. The folding class sounds like fun.

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  27. Favorite tool - definitely tweezers - great for picking and placing embellishments, removing the backing on adhesives, getting fingers out of the way to see where to place something

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  28. Beautiful card! Even though I am still in the learning curve, my new Silhouette is rapidly becoming my favorite tool. Thanks so much for the chance to win!

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  29. oooo my Sizzix Big Shot! LOVE LOVE LOVE how I can add texture, and colour and shapes, all in one wonderful machine.
    Helen -- Firenze Cards

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  30. My favorite crafting tools are my embossing folders- so easy to get a fancy look, quick and cheap. really amps up the wow factor of a card

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  31. My favorite crafting tool is my die cutting machines. I have a Cricut and a Silhouette Cameo. Thanks for the chance to win a seat in your class.

    Hugs,

    Carmen L

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  32. Would love to win a seat in your class. Thanks for the chance. Roseann Hoyle

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  33. A favorite tool of mine is the Tim Holtz see thru ruler (although isn't every crafting tool a favorite?) I do use this ruler everyday and almost every hr. I craft. Thanks for all the wonderful crafting ideas and love the swiss dots flower!!!

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  34. Wow! It's so difficult to narrow down to just one favorite tool! But, I guess at this time it has to be my Big Kick. I don't think I've ever made a card that didn't have at least one thing on it that was done using the Big Kick. I love embossing and die cutting and all kinds of dies end EFs and couldn't use any of them without the Big Kick.

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  35. My favorite tool would be my Anna Griffin embossing folders, perfect for this project.

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  36. My favorite tool would be my paper trimmer, couldn't do ANYTHING without out! But I would love to win a seat in this class so I can use my scoring board. Thanks for the chance!

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  37. Posted for Barbi Dopson

    I would have to say my favorite tool(s) would be my Cuttlebug and all the many dies that I have.

    Barbie Dopson

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  38. I Love my Big Kick to make a card I love embossing and die cutting with it.

    Joy Gainey

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  39. I love the Ranger ink blending tool. I ink the edges of everything

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  40. Looks like a great class. I love my Stamp It Up score board! Very handy for scoring those rosettes!

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  41. It all is very nice. I would say my favourite tool at the moment is my Ebosser.

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  42. Great embellishment idea. thanks for sharing...
    Fav tools, Spellbinders and Cuttlebug machines, die cuts and embossing folders.

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  43. Love the cards and ideas. Love the idea of a button and then cover it. Will use that on a card I am sure.

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  44. My favorite craft tool is my Sizzix Big Shot. I can't imagine crafting without it! Thanks for the chance to win.

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  45. I love the idea of using an embossing folder on ghost shapes. My favorite tool is my Wizard because I can use so many different company's dies and folders in it.

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  46. Mmm yes I have a packet of ghost shapes (somewhere) like your idea on how to use them. I guess my favourite tool would have to be glue products, I tend to stick everything down. Depending on the project it is either (love, love) double sided tape or liquid glue or glue stick.
    Well I think I just answered the question...LOL Double sided tape.

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  47. My most used and favorite is my new Stampin' Up! Paper trimmer. Next would be stamps and inks.

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  48. Love my Tonic scissors. They cut through wire and plastic like butter.

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  49. MY FAVORITE TOOL TO USE IS THE CUTTER BEE TWEEZERS. I LOVE THEM SO MUCH I OWN AT LEAST 6 OF THEM. THEY HELP ME WITH ALL THE LITTLE PIECES THAT MY CRICUT CUTS AND ANYTHING WITH GLUE TO GET THEM ALL IN THE RIGHT PLACE.

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  50. Love my Spellbinders and Sizzix dies. I think I have some ghost letters, somewhere in my stash/hoarde. Need to try this. Thanks!

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  51. What a great idea!! I definately need to try that. I don't think I could accomplish much without my Fiskars paper trimmer - ya gotta start most everything with cutting paper, right?

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  52. Love learning new things-I never thought of embossing plastic! My Cuttlebug is my favorite-I love to emboss!

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  53. My favorite is cuttlebug...I love the embossed look on the paper...Of course everything else is my favorite also...lol...

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  54. My favorite is my Cricut Expression.

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  55. Though I have a Zing, I find myself returning to my big shot and spellbinders type dies. So easy to use!

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  56. Not sure post worked so here goes.
    Beautiful and a tease. Have ghost shapes that seemed I good idea but not much used.
    My Tim Holtz Vagabond(sp). My arthritis was making cutting and embossing hard so a really good investment.

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  57. Sitting on my craft table is my Big Shot and my box of dies and embossing folders. They are probably used on every card.

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  58. My favorite tool is my Cuttlebug to use all of the dies and embossing folders available, but a close second is my piercing tool. I can use it for piercing papers, but also for popping out small pieces in die cuts, poking holes in paper for brads, and all kinds of things! Thanks for the great ideas! --Yvonne

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  59. Jeri, I received this comment last night via email.

    Posted for Terri Young:
    My favorite paper crafting tool would have to be my Silhouette Die Cutter. I can create so many items for my miniature dollhouses, scrapbooks, artwork, cards, and so much more.

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  60. My absolute favorite tool is my black cat cutting machine. I've designed and cut SO many stencils and love using them on my projects! Tami

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  61. My favorite tool is my ATG gun. The refills are inexpensive and the adhesive sticks!

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  62. Oh what a great class that will be. My favorite tool is my "reverse tweezer" that comes in a tool kit manufactured by Punch Bunch (I got it at Joan's Gardens.)

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  63. Without a doubt, I couldn't live without my corner rounder!

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  64. My favorite is my e-bosser, so easy to get beautiful results!

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  65. My favorite tool are dies, you can create so many fun shapes with them and they really enhance your cards

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  66. I never thought of embossing acrylic embellishments. Would that be embellishing the embellishment?... My favorite tool is the BigShot. I can't make anything without it.

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  67. My favourite tool is my die cut machine and the dies of course!

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  68. My favorite crafting tool is my see through ruler with a metal edge for cutting, as well as a centering gauge. Thanks for the tutorial on how to make that lovely clear flower.

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