Decorating A Mini Album Using Xyron Adhesives & A Giveaway

Welcome to our final day of 3 Birds projects created using the amazing adhesives from Xyron! So far this week, we have had some amazing projects including an altered wood letter and an altered burlap canvas. Today, we finish off the week with an adorable mini album by Robbie Herring.

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Hi y'all! It's Robbie today. I wanted to share a mini album that I created with the Xyron Creative Station and 3 Birds products. The Xyron Creative Station is perfect for larger items that you want to turn into stickers. A mini album goes together perfectly and easily when using the Xyron Creative Station!

Here is the album that I made.

To get started, I cut all the pieces to make my mini album out. I decided to make this a fairly small album that you be great for a gift. I used my Spellbinders dies to cut 4 pieces of chipboard and 8 pieces of paper to cover the chipboard.

Next, I fed the chipboard and 4 of the patterned paper pieces through the Xyron Creative Station.



DESIGNER TIP | To make your adhesive go as far as possible, use the tray to place them close to the previous pieces. Don't cut them until you have fed all the pieces through the machine.

Now you are ready to adhere your paper to build your album! One side of the chipboard will have adhesive, so use one of the pieces that you didn't feed through to cover that side. You will then use a piece of the adhesive covered paper for the other side of the chipboard.

I also used the Spellbinder's dies to cut an additional piece of paper for the top of each page of my album. These pieces were added using my Xyron Mega Runner. I wanted to have the option to curl or distress the edges, so I didn't want these pieces covered completely with adhesive. The Mega Runner was perfect! It does a great job of holding things firmly!



The next steps were a few details and then putting it together.

I love the look of stitching to add detail, but it can be a bit tough on a mini album to make it look right on both sides. To get a similar look quickly and easily, I just used my Souffle pens and did a quick outline around each page.



To put it all together, I added eyelets to each page and used a ring to hold it all together.  And of course, I added a bow!

Time to start embellishing! I used a few things from both Graceful Season and Midday Medley for my album. Paper, chipboard, punched leaves and flowers were the choices I made. The collections have so many embellishment choices and complement each other so well. It really makes embellishing easy.



I loved how easy this went together using the Creative Station! Don't forget that Xyron makes so many other great products!

To see the inside of My Favorite Moments Mini Album, be sure to stop by my blog! I have it all finished for you to see today!

Thanks so much for stopping by to see my project!
Robbie

SUPPLIES | Midday Medley Paper Collection, Midday Medley 3D Embellishment Kit, Graceful Season Paper Collection, Graceful Season Sticky Sparkly Chipboard Shapes

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Don't forget to enter to WIN one of two amazing prize packages as we celebrate the HSN Launch of our new products and the generosity of our friends at Xyron! Click on this link to enter for your chance to WIN - http://tinyurl.com/kc3gxfa

Visit the Xyron blog and Facebook page for more inspiration and ideas on using their products and make sure you let them know that 3 Birds sent you!!

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Adhering Vellum on a Scrapbook Page Using the Xyron Creative Station & a Giveaway

Happy Wednesday Little Birdies! Hope that you are tuning in to HSN today for all of the new 3 Birds Goodness happening there today! It’s Chasity here today with a peek into the nest, and my very messy, messy desk! But hey, who ever said that creativity is clean!?! (All of the other Birdies at the Nest will tell you that MY desk is perpetually a major disaster…)

But no time to tidy, I’m too excited to put this little green machine on my work desk! A huge thank you to our Xyron friends for sharing such an awesome tool with us!



It just so happens to be perfect timing to have this awesome adhesive tool, the Xyron Creative Station, with the launch of the new Midday Medley Paper pack with printed vellum. A perfect pair! Printed vellum is so beautiful, but sometimes poses a problem when trying to adhere it to another surface or paper. Because of its translucent appearance, most adhesives show through. BUT NOT TODAY! The Creative Station transfers a full coverage, seamless adhesive across the entire area of the paper! Magic! This tool was a real time saver while getting samples ready for the upcoming show!

I found the machine to be very easy to use; I love how the side panels fold in for storage! Clever!

Here you will see what the vellum looks like run through the machine. I like having the option of running small pieces, or large pieces through the same machine.

I was excited at how easily the vellum peeled away from the backing. As Juliana pointed out, no wrinkles or tears! Even with vellum paper.





See how you can still see through the vellum paper without actually seeing the adhesive? WOW!

Next is the beginning of my layout for the HSN show, with the vellum adhered to the background paper.

I am just so impressed with how this adhesive handles vellum. I think every messy desk needs a little green machine!

This is the completed layout using the new Midday Medley Collection. I hope that you tune in today to HSN and see this layout in action! The new Midday Medley Collection products coordinate so you can craft with confidence no matter which products you snag for yourself!



DESIGNER TIP | I will leave you with a quick tip. The printed vellum papers in the Midday Medley Paper Pack make beautiful flower embellishments for projects! Hand cut the swirl shapes, or use your electronic cutting machine! I used a quilling tool to wrap the flower. The vellum holds its shape surprisingly well, even when you remove it from the quilling tool! A little glue to the base, press the center down and voila, elegant but easy vellum flower embellishments! Here’s a close up to show you just how fun these quilled vellum flowers can be! Hope you enjoy!





SUPPLIES | Midday Medley Paper Collection, Midday Medley Nestable Festival Sticker Kit, Midday Medley 3D Embellishment Kit, Sticker Flair Mega Sticker Kit

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Don’t forget to enter to WIN one of two amazing prize packages as we celebrate the HSN Launch of our new products and the generosity of our friends at Xyron! Click on this link to enter for your chance to WIN – http://tinyurl.com/kc3gxfa



Visit the Xyron blog and Facebook page for more inspiration and ideas on using their products and make sure you let them know that 3 Birds sent you!!!

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Altered Wood Letter Tutorial Using The Xyron Creative Station & A Giveaway

Happy Monday 3 Birds Fans and welcome to a wonderful week of inspiration! Thanks to the generosity of our friends from Xyron, the 3 Birds Design Team will be sharing projects created using Xyron's Creative Station and 3" Sticker Maker.  We are also celebrating the launch of our new products this Wednesday, July 23rd on HSN. To celebrate these wonderful events, we are giving you the chance to WIN one of two amazing prize packages. You can check out all the details at the end of this post. Before you do though, make sure you take a look at our first project of the week - an altered wood letter, by designer Juliana Michaels.

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Welcome everyone! It's Juliana here, and today I am sharing with you an altered wood letter that I created using the Xyron Creative Station along with our new 3 Birds Quill Ease Quilling Tool and Midday Medley Paper Collection.

As you may recall, I shared a Quilled Altered Wood Letter last week on the blog. Today I am sharing a similar letter, however today I'm going to show you how I adhered the patterned paper to the wood letter using the Xyron Creative Station.  This machine is wonderful for applying adhesive to large surface areas. It also won't buckle or warp your paper.

I began by creating my quilled flowers, leaves and swirls. I used the Quill Ease Quilling Tool for many of these shapes. I am so amazed at how much time it saves me to use this new tool when creating the basic coiled shapes. Once I had determined the placement for all of the elements, I took a quick photo using my camera phone. I always do this to to help me remember where all of the flowers go when it is time to adhere them to my project.

TUTORIAL | ALTERED WOOD LETTER WITH PATTERNED PAPER USING THE XYRON CREATIVE STATION

For this project, begin with a wooden letter. I found this one at my local Michael's craft store.


Select a piece of patterned paper that coordinates well with the embellishments you want to use.

Turn the paper over and the letter over so that the back side of each is facing up toward you. Place the letter onto the paper and trace around the outside shape of the letter using a pencil.



Cut out the letter shape. Measure the width of the sides of the letter. Cut three 1" x 12" strips from the same paper.Place the cut out shapes into the Xyron Creative Station with the printed side facing up. Turn the hand and guide the paper pieces into the machine. 

As the paper moves through the machine, adhesive is applied to the back side of each piece. Use the cutting bar included with the machine and trim off the piece once it has gone through the machine.

Remove the pieces from the backing material and adhere them to your letter.Use a sanding block to smooth the edges once you have adhered the paper to the wood letter.Attach the long strips to cover the sides of the letter. Trim them as needed. Use the sanding block again to smooth the edges once all of the paper is adhered.Now you are ready to add your quilled flowers and swirls or other embellishments.To decorate my letter, I used a few dimensional flowers from our Quilled Cardmaking Kit to create the yellow flower along with strips from the Quill Ease Quilling Took bundle. To finish the flowers, I added adhesive backed pearls to the center of each flower.

I hope you enjoyed learning about the Xyron Creative Station and how easy it makes applying adhesive to large surfaces. It's really ideal to use when creating home decor type pieces.

HUGS!
Juliana

SUPPLIES | Quill Ease Quilling Tool, Midday Medley Patterned Collection, Quilled Cardmaking Kit

Visit the Xyron blog and Facebook page for more inspiration and ideas on using their products and make sure you let them know that 3 Birds sent you!!!

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Now for the best part...the GIVEAWAY!  By clicking on the link, you can enter for your chance to win either a Xyron 3" Sticker Maker and a 3 Birds Quill Quilling Tool or a Xyron 3" Sticker Maker and a Timeless Stamp Kit! The giveaway opens today and continues until Monday, July 28. We will announce the winner next week. Good luck and thank you so much for stopping by today!!!

CLICK ON THIS LINK TO ENTER OUR GIVEAWAY - http://tinyurl.com/kc3gxfa

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