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Imaginisce has many fun scrapbooking tools and one of the favourites is the D-stress Tool.  It can distress paper, chipboard edges, etc. Check out how DT member Guiseppa used it on this fabulous layout!

Guiseppa Gubler

I love this picture!  It makes me excited for the fun camping trips our family has coming up this summer.  I also love the fun, happy colors of the Heartland Farm Collection...perfect for my camping and summer layouts!

When you are thinking about adding some subtle additions to your project, have you thought about using the D-Stress Tool from Imaginisce?  Well, that's just what I did.  Guiseppa here and I want to share with you my layout using the D-Stress Tool!

I cut out this title using my Silhouette Cameo.  Using the D-Stress, I sanded all around the edges of the title.  To make it stand out even more, I used American Crafts Slick Writer Pen.  The whole outside of my layout is sanded as well.

I'm loving the little stamps that come with the Heartland Farm Collection.  I used heat embossing to make this tree stamp.  I also used the D-Stress on the Die Cuts from this collection and the clouds that I cut out from my Silhouette Cameo.

Have you tried using the D-Stress Tool?  Let me tell you, I was thrilled when I received this tool from Imaginisce.  I used to use sandpaper to get the look that I wanted.  This tool gets in ever corner and hard to sand areas.  I love it!  Thanks for stopping in and I hope you get the chance to play with this tool!

Imaginisce Supplies: 

Patterned Paper, Clear Acrylic Stamp and Die Cut Cardstock Shapes (Heartland Farm Collection), D-Stress

American Crafts Supplies: Cardstock, Slick Writer Foam Dots

Endless Summer with Cari

Well, today brings us to the final day of our Designer-a-Day feature.  Thanks for joining us this past month as our designers shared their talents. We hoped that you enjoyed it!!

Today we have our DT Coordinator, Cari Locken, sharing this super fun summer album.


"Hot Summer Days"

I created this little mini album using Endless Summer collection of patterned papers, diecuts, stickers, etc and some summer pics. All I needed to get started was some chipboard which I cut to 6" x 4" pieces.

 I began by printing out my photos - 7 of them at 4" x 6" each. I adhered each one on a piece of 4x6 chipboard and corner rounded the top & bottom right edges.

I then covered the other side of the chipboard with patterned paper. I tried to find papers that went with my photos.  After the papers were adhered I used the d-stress tool to clean up and sand the edges a bit .  This is a great little tool for that because often the paper isn't the same size as the chipboard and it hangs over the edges. Well, this tools sand over the excess and creates a clean edge.

After all the pages were covered and embellishments added I used my i-rock tool and some glimmer i-rocks to finish the design off.

The cover of the mini is a clear acrylic piece. I adhered a sticker stacker to the center.

Then on the back of the clear page I took another sticker stacker and adhered it to some patterned paper. I then cut around the sticker and adhered this to the clear page. You then see the green patterned paper showing through on the front cover. I embellished the front (on the green part but on the clear page) with some i-rock gems.

 Here's a look at the inside pages.
You will notice that I kept my album design farily simple & repeated the same design throughout.
One side with patterned paper, embellishments & journaling. The other side the photo.

On each left side I typed my journaling onto white cardstock.  I cut thin strips of blue cardstock and embossed each one (3 different designs) for some added visual interest & texture.

I also added foam squares/tape for added dimension on some of the diecuts and stickers.

And the back cover.

Supplies used: Imaginisce (Endless Summer Collection: patterned papers, diecuts, sticker stackers), i-rock tool and Glam Rocks; foam tape; d-stress tool
Other: Core'dinations Colorcore Cardstock, chipboard; Xryon glue stick, Sookwang double sided tape, Cuttlebug embossing folders & Cuttlebug, May Arts (Ribbons)

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Thanks again for stopping by today. We hope that you were inspired by all of the projects this past month.

Please make sure to join us tomorrow as we share our new Monthly Challenge and announce last month's winner!!

Advent Calendar Tutorial With PINKY and a GIVEAWAY!

Good morning my Imaginisce friends,

it is me Pinky with a step by step tutorial for my HOG THE BLOG day!

I really wanted to make a video but with a project so large

I decided a step by step tutorial would be much more affective.

This advent calendar will easily hold small candies, tags, or photos.

I am going to use this for photos, I have printed up 24 photos in

1X2 size for my boys and every day they will pull out another photo

and we can reminisce about the past year ending up on the last few days of

Christmas 2010.

I just thought it would be a great way to create family time every day.

We have several advent calendars in our home and this will make

another great treasure hunt! The entire project was made with

the Imaginisce- Santa's Little Helper line,

Imaginisce Colored Foam Tape,

Glue Arts Glue, tulle, and some glitter glue.

Step 1

Cut 24 2 1/4" X 3" from Peppermint Stick paper

for the pockets, cut 6 12"X 1" strips

from the Spot UV Peppermint Stick paper.

Step 2

Punch or use your die cut machine to create 24 1 3/4" labels

from the Holiday Hoopla Paper.

Step 3

On each die cut/punch stamp the numbers (or use chipboard) 1-24.

Step 4

Adhere strips to front of "pocket" and carefully trim off excess.

Be extra careful to lay pockets side by side to keep all striped even.

Step 5

Using Imaginisce Colored Foam Tape, add 2 tape dots in the middle of each strip.

Step 6

Carefully adhere each die cut.

Step 7

Using red glitter glue, trim out each die cut/punch, set aside to dry.

Without the glitter glue these sort of blend in.

Step 8

Here I laid out the pockets to get a general idea of where the would lay.

Step 9

Place glue strip on both sides and bottom, leaving the top open.

You could also sew or stitch these pockets on, but for this one I used adhesive.

Step 10

Adhere all 4 corners first, this will help you achieve even pockets.

Step 11

Adhere all pockets, here you can see I slipped a little

package of sweet-tarts into the day 1 pocket.

Step 12

Adhere both pieces to foam board or a thick long cardstock,

trim off excess. Punch holes and add tulle.

Fill with tags, notes, candies, or photos and ENJOY your hand made

Christmas Advent Calendar!!

Now to get your holiday started right I have a GIFT from me to YOU.

Last week I picked up an extra D-Stress Tool just for this Hog The Blog

because I love the holidays and love giving!!

Just FOLLOW this blog and leave a comment,

next week a RANDOM winner will be drawn for a brand new

Imaginisce D-Stress tool to help you kick off the holiday crafting season!

If you already have on then it would make an amazing gift for a friend.

Have a wonderful day. I hope you enjoyed my day to

HOG THE BLOG.

Pinky- Imaginisce Design Team

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Don't forget about our giveaway on Friday for posting a comment

on each day of our Blog Hop with Glue Arts.

For more details check our Monday - Wednesday posting this week.

Tool Time - Video- GiveAway!

Welcome to our new Tool Time segement where we will be showcasing a different Imaginisce tool every couple of weeks and providing you with tips, tricks, maintenance and project ideas to get the most out of your tools. Or for those of you who are yet to own one of our gorgeous pink tools, perhaps we might give you just the right amount of inspiration to put one or two on your wish list!

For our first episode of Tool-Time we are going to head straight for the top of the tool-box and take out the new d-stress Tool as we recieve so many queries in regards to 'what can you do' with a d-stress tool?
And to introduce you to this wonderful little gadget we have none other than our video-queen Cristal 'Pinky' Hobbs who is going to show you all the wonderful things the d-stress can be used to create.

So it is over to Pinky...
 

Hey everyone Pinky here!

At Imaginisce they want you to know just how much fun

and how useful the tools are, so they asked me to make a little video

tutorial and a project to share my favorite d-stress techniques with you!! And I'm so glad that I get to showcase the d-stress tool as it is fast becoming my all time favourite tool from Imaginisce.

So grab a cuppa and get comfy while I walk you through this clever new pink tool...

Here is a card that I made using my d-stress

 and not only on the card itself (the embossing)...

...but also on the acrylic to set the Hot Rocks permanently.

I also d-stressed the flower before painting to give it a shabby chic appearance.


The tag was painted prior to d-stressing to highlight the beautiful yellow colour underneath.

The d-stress is so versatile, you will find yourself reaching for it

time and time again!

It really is one of my favorite tools and I am always

finding new uses for it.
I hope you have enjoyed learning more about this unique tool and been inspired to give it a try.
Pinky

GIVEAWAY
We couldn't have a Tool Time segment without giving away one of the tools, that just wouldn't be fair, would it?
So, we are going to give away a brand new

d-stress tool package

*prize package ships in May*

Now for your chance to win we ask that you pop by Pinky's blog to catch up on more tips and tricks with the d-stress tool and to let her know how much you enjoyed her Tool Time video and projects. You will find Pinky on her blog here:

http://blueyecicle.blogspot.com/

and then come back and tell us what you would like to see on our next Tool Time segment.
Winner announced tomorrow!

Scrapbook.com Visits Imaginisce Booth at CHA

I thought you might enjoy seeing a quick video filmed at CHA this past weekend.



GIVEAWAY: 
Since the video featured our new tools we thougth we better give away a d-stress tool today to celebrate that it's Thursday. All you need to do is post a link to this video on your Facebook Wall or email it to a friend, then leave comment here. We'll post the winner on the blog tomorrow!

Imaginisce attends the Quilt Market Show (new tool announcement)

Last weekend our crew hosted a booth at the Quilt Market trade show in Houston, Texas. Here's some pictures of our booth. We'll be featuring some of these darling quilted projects on our blog soon...so be watching!

Imaginisce featured the popular i-rock tool collection.

And of course we showed all those great crafting and quilt retailers the i-top tool program and all the wonderful accessories now available.

In preparation of the Quilt Show we had our resident video gal Erin Bassett create us a fun video showing how easy it is to cover our i-top daddies with FABRIC.


International Quilt Market is now on Facebook and Twitter! Follow us for important show information, industry news and trends, and to connect with fellow Market exhibitors and attendees.


Now for the BIG NEWS...at the quilt show Imaginisce announced two new tools.


i-bond Cordless Glue Gun

The new i-bond is the perfect crafting tool for all sorts of projects. We especially like them with our new Roly Rosies and Pop-up Posies. 

- Cordless
- Uses 4 AA Batteries
- Lighted Nozzle for Easy Application
- Ergonomic Design
- Uses Standard Mini Glue Sticks
- Comes with 3 Glue Sticks

MSRP $15.99

Shipping December 2010

 

d-stress Creative Paper Edger

The new d-stress is a handheld sanding tool that is perfect for paper and wood projects alike. The tips are the right size for fitting in those small spaces on chipboard alphabets and so much more! You can also engrave with this new tool!

- Cordless

- Uses 2 AA Batteries

- Comes with 3 different crafting tips

- Portable

- Ergonomic Design

MSRP $15.99

Shipping January 2011

DOUBLE CHANCE TO WIN:
1. Tell us which tool you're the most excited about and why or what you'd use these for. Answer this question and you could win one of the FIRST to receive one of these new tools (when they arrive)!! 


2. We're curious how many of you are quilters, sew, stitch or do anything that would require you to shop at a fabric store. Tell us what you love to do and what your favorite fabric related tool you use is (needles, cutting mat, sewing machine, etc).  The winner of this will receive an i-top tool and a tons of Button Daddies !!