Back To School Tutorial With Xyron

Good morning friends, YES it's finally Friday! OHHH 

I have missed you Friday!! haha

I have a fun tutorial up today - a Back To School Card And Pencil Set,

using XYRON, Samantha Walker and some Clear Scraps too. 

I used this adorable and very nifty Xyron Teresa Collins Adhesive Kit

and it's a fun time let me tell ya. It has everything including an adhesive eraser!

First of all trim out 4X6 patterned paper.

Punch both sides using a border punch. 

Trim out Owl Border Paper piece. 

Peel off protective film (both sides). 

Using Teresa Collins Xyron®  Tape Runner adhere Owl Border piece

to the base of the card (front side). 

Flip card base over- apply adhesive on the back only in the places 

you have the owl border paper. 

Lay acrylic card onto border punched paper. 

Trim out schoolhouse from patterned paper. 

Using Teresa Collins Foam Squares (in the kit) layer 

sticker over cut schoolhouse creating your own layered sticker. 

Apply glitter stickers inside card as shown. (Pink Paislee used). 

Trim out 2 pieces of patterned paper. 

The length of the pencil and 2- 2 1/2" with 

(if you make them just long enough they will come off so leave yourself extra rolling room)

Run the patterned paper strips though your 

 Xyron® 5" Creative Station™using the Permanent adhesive. 

Carefully roll paper around pencils. 

Using Blumenthal Lansing buttons- tie 2 owls to the pencil top with twine. 

Assemble card as directed in packaging. 

Apply paper ruler strips to card flaps after removing protective film. 

Tie twine through 2 of the owl buttons. 

Adhere to card using Teresa Collins Xyron®  Tape Runner. 

Adhere school house to one side of the card flaps. 

Give with a smile and a hug! 

Now how much fun are these little goodies?

Easy and adorable fun!

I hope you enjoyed today's post- I would love to see if you make a set!

Happy Friday friends. 

Don't forget to check out the Xyron Facebook page!

https://www.facebook.com/xyroninc

Products Used: Xyron® 5" Creative Station™,5” Creative Station Permanent Refill, Teresa Collins Xyron®  Tape Runner , Teresa Collins Foam Squares (in the kit).

Clear Scraps Send It Clear Belgrave Card, 

Samantha Walker papers, Pink Paislee glitter alpha, Favorite Findings Buttons (Blumenthal Lansing). 

~FREE SVG & Prizes BLOG HOP!~

Good morning, 

welcome to the monthly Samantha Walker Creative Team Blog Hop!

This month Samantha is giving away a FREE SVG and

you have the chance to win the Ooh La La Stamp set! :) 

In case you have not heard SW is part of the new paper company called

Carta Bella, this project is the new Paris Girl line.

This is a composition notebook, and a backpack tag, perfect for your

little princess or Paris chic gal! :) 

I used my Silhouette with the 8 Piece Tag Set to create the shapes, 

and the black lace and crown came form Hydrangea Hippos store on Etsy. 

I laminated the tags using my Purple Cows Laminator. 

 Now if I only had a little girl! LOL

I don't see my boys carrying this to school anytime soon. 

Ok here are the blog hop details:

The blog hop will begin on Wednesday 8/8 at 12:01am MDT and they will have to comment by Sunday, 8/12 at 11:59pm MDT in order to be eligible for the free SVG/Silhouette file as well as the prize...which will be the Ooh La La French Frills stamp set.

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Happy hump day my friends~

~Crafty Sad Mom Story & New School Project!~

Good morning all my crafty friends!

I have a story for you today to go along with my brand new project!

I created this "Chalkboard" composition notebook with the

brand new "Geek Is Chic" line from Imaginisce and some PLAID

Chalkboard paint, thinking it would be a fun project.

I never expected my boys to even glance at it, but I did show it to

my 9 year old and he smiled as I thought..."well mom that is as good as

it gets, your officially old, no one cares" LOL

But then he told my 15 yr old and my son came up and told me it was

so cool and asked if he could have it for school!

He said he loved it etc...etc....etc....

I should have known it was too good to be true.

I happily and foolishly gave it to him and a piece of chalk, thinking

he would use it at school or home for fun.

Hey I might not be so old after all right??

I was totally wrong...2 days later I asked him to bring it to me

because I wanted to take another photo before he used it for school.

Oh he brought it to me alright....it was torn to bits and everything was torn off,

except the chalkboard part of it. I was shocked, I honestly thought he

liked it. Dumb mom moment for sure!

He said "All that crap was stupid mom so I tore it off I

only wanted it for the chalkboard!"

Ok I admit it, I cried...it really hurt my feelings...

SO all my blog friends....next time I make a project PLEASE

remind me not to give it to my kids, give it to someone who

will love it and not tear it up! :/

I still love the project and the line though! :)

Just not really loving on my kid right now. haha