Thankful for Scor Pal

I just made a quick pretty box for cookies with nothing more than Scor Pal and leftover embellishments. It really weighs on me to have lots of bits and ends from other projects. I like order and hate hoarding, so I love that i can clear out a lot of supplies by making boxes and treat boxes. What will you be doing with your scraps this holiday

Take a 12.x12 piece of paper or cardstock score at 2 inches and at 10 inches turn paper 90 degree and score at 2 inches and 10 inches also. At top of paper, slit the vertical score line only up to the horizonal scoreline do the same at the bottom. Fold into box secure with your ATG or whatever you use as an adhesive. box bottom will be about 8 x 8 inches.

Now for the top, take 10 by 10 piece of paper. Score at 3/4 of an inch all around like you did with the bottom. Slit vertical scorelines at top and bottom only to the horizontal line fold into box shape. Secure with your ATG. Finished top will be about 8.5 x 8.5 inches
If you have a cricut, you can cut a shape in the middle of your 10 x 10 peice for a see-through hole that you can back with clear acetate or vellum.
Embellish.

Wedding Congratulations Card

Suggested Supplies

Coordinated Cardstock 8.5x11
One sheet should be solid
Ribbon
Corner Rounder
Scor-Pal
Cricut Expression
Gypsy
Wild Card Cartridge*
Wrap-It Up Cartridge*
A Child’s Year*

*Any cartridge with multiple wedding images and tags.


Use Scor Pal to score one 8.5 by 11 sheet in half along the 4.25 groove.
Cut 8.5x11” paper in half to have two 5.1/2 x 8”
Score one of the halves of paper at the small dots on Scor-Pal at 2 1/8 and 6 3/8
Put that in the Cricut and hallow out a heart shape.( or cut by hand).

Now glue the two halves together along the 5 ½” inch sides. Fold the inner layer and the outer layers along their respective center score lines so the inner layer is folded toward you and the outer layer away from you. Put aside

Cut Bride and Groom from Wild Card at 3.5 wide. Place on front of the card.

Cut the “Congratulations” from Wrap It Up at 3 inches wide. Cut two tags from A Child’s Year one at 3.25 inches and the other at 3 inches. Layer these cuts and decorate with ribbon. Place on top of the Bride and Groom icon.

Cut the double wedding ring from Wild Card at 3 inches. Score in half, then attach to the outside of the hallow heart shape. Cut “Mr and Mrs.” phrase from Wrap It Up and score in half then glue beneath the heart shape. Add embellishments

Why Scrapbook?

Scrapbooking is my journal and journaling is about contemplating life so it is worth living. Scrapbooking also has an element of legacy--the books we creat will live longer than we will. So I have been musing over legacy and life and I think big changes are on the way.

So Busy Scrapping Had No Time to Blog

A friend reminded me that I had a blog. And, what do you know, I do have one. And I want to start where I left off--with the YourStory. Even though I haven’t blogged for over a year, doesn’t mean that I haven’t crafted. In fact, last year was my most productive one so far for me. I completed over 100 hundred scrapbook pages and about 200 cards.

One big reason I was able to get more done than ever before, is that I bought a YourStory by ProvoCraft. YourStory is a bookbinding system that uses glue as the binder.

Just owning one changed my scrapping life. As soon as I bought one, I could complete projects in a weekend and books in an hour. For example in my last post, that Christmas I hosted family from out of town, I took pictures on Christmas, then the next day, went to a convenience store printed them out. After printing multiple copies of each picture, I was able to send completed scrapbooks home with my guests. Think of it—send the book home with them—no waiting, no shipping, no next year apologies. Beautiful.

The magic is in YourStory binders, the spine has a glue that when heated becomes soft allowing pages to be set in the glue. Once the glue cools, it hardens and holds the pages in a professional looking binder. The system is simple and can be use for many types of projects.

I have used it for recipes, workshop instructions and even a book of all the art work my students did for me. In other words, the YourStory system goes well beyond scrapbook binding—it is a book binding system, portable simple and most of complete.

And yet it doesn’t do everything. But before I go on, I need you to read and I want you to hear, the YourStory is the most valuable asset of my scrapbooking tools outside of paper, photos and my Cricut. It changed my life, made me more productive, bolstered my family relationships by allowing me to give legacy gifts in short turn around time.

In the next post we will talk more about YourStory’s strengths and weaknesses

First Photo: Cricut.Com

Second Photo: by jazznjava