Glue Arts

Ways To Show Your Love with GlueArts!

2012-02-13T11:54:00.000-05:00

It's hard not to notice that tomorrow is Valentine's Day!

Red, white, pink...hearts, candy, roses and special gifts for those you love.

The message for Valentine's Day rings clear...show the one you love how much you love them. And while we adore this message and the holiday, we also think why not show your love the other 364 days of the year too!

So join us this week as we share with you ways to show your love on Valentine's Day and all year round using your favorite GlueArts Adhesives!

I Love You Treat Jar

GlueArts Designer: Audrey Pettit

Supplies:

Glue Arts Glue Glider Pro and High Tac Adhesive

Glue Arts Glue Gun with Glue Sticks

Glue Arts Micro Extreme Adhesive Squares

Cardstock: Stampin'Up

Patterned Paper: My Mind's Eye and Studio Calico

Stamps: SavvyStamps and Prickley Pear Rubber Stamps

Dies: Prickley Pear Rubber Stamps

Flower: Maya Road

Ink: Stampin'Up

Paint: Darice

Floss: DMC

Trims

Wool Fabric

Pinking Shears

Recycled Jar

Wooden Skewer

Button

1. Wash and dry a recycled glass jar. Cut a piece of wool fabric to size to wrap around your jar. I used pinking shears on the fabric to create texture and detail.

2. Cut two strips of contrasting patterned papers to layer within the wool. Adhere the two strips together with Glue Arts High Tac Adhesive and then machine stitch the paper to the wool.

3. Wrap the paper/wool piece around the center of your jar. Wrap a wide band of lace around the middle and tie into a knot at the center. The lace tie will hold the wrapper in place, with no need for further adhesive. Tie more trims around the jar, as desired, tying some of the pieces into bows.

4. Die cut a scalloped circle from patterned paper and adhere a fabric flower to the center with the Glue Arts Glue Gun. Using more hot glue, affix the die cut to the middle of the bow.

5. Die cut small butterflies from cardstock and stamp matching images in yellow ink. Machine stitch down the center of each butterfly and adhere butterflies to the flower and up the jar using Glue Arts Micro Extreme Adhesive Squares.

6. Paint a wooden skewer white. Cut two hearts from the wool fabric, insert the skewer in between the hearts, and blanket stitch around the hearts with pink embroidery floss. Stamp a sentiment banner on a strip of cardstock and affix to the heart, along with a final die cut butterfly and a vintage button.

7. Place wooden skewer inside the jar and fill with your favorite sweets.

Bags of Love
GlueArts Designer: Linda Albrecht

These little burlap bags all decorated up for Valentines Day would be a simple way to show that you love someone... fill them with a string of paper hearts or a heart shaped brooch pin.

Supplies:
Glue Arts Glue Glider Pro with Perma Tac Adhesive
Glue Arts Hot Melt Glue Gun and sticks
Burlap Bags, Organza Rose Trim, Antique Button, Crochet Trims- Maya Road
Rhinestones- Melissa Frances
Patterned papers- Pink Paislee
Bubble gum colored wool felt- Sweet Emma Jean at Etsy.com
Other:
Lace
Russian netting
Small buttons
Brooch pin
Jute twine
Colored Seam Binding
polyester batting/fiberfill

Directions:
1. Decorate the tops of small burlap bags with trims using hot glue.

Hearts on a string:

3. Cut hearts from paper & trim with glitter, lace, small buttons and rhinestones.
4. Apply strand of jute twine for hanging with hot glue to the back sides of hearts.

Heart Brooch:

5. Cut 2 hearts from wool felt, machine stitch together and stuff with batting.
6. Hot glue a piece of organza roses trim across the front of the heart and then hot glue antique rhinestone button to the center.

7. Gather up a 3"x 3" length of lace, a piece of netting and a Daisy flower from crochet trim and hot glue to the back side of the felt heart.
8. Hand sew a brooch pin to the back side of the felt heart.

Beautiful....and as we mentioned Valentine's Day is just one day of the year...these ideas are perfect to show your love all year round!

Last week we had a daily giveaway for you with goodies we brought back from CHA! So let's announce those lucky 5 winners today!

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Scrapalajen aka Jen said...

Love the layout, pocket tag and banner. Love how versatile this U Cut it foam is! I would love to get my hands on these!

February 8, 2012 3:41 PM

7Gypsies

Drayia said...

I LOVE that house, wish I had that cart for my Cricut. What a great way to use adhesive foam, love the flower and Spellbinders dies are to die for. Thanks for sharing!

February 7, 2012 9:08 AM

LillyBee

Christine said...

Wow, another fantastic round of projects!! Love the button heart and I think that you have amazing tutorials from all of your Glue Girls!! Thanks for the chance to win and all of the great tips!!
xoxo, Christine

February 11, 2012 7:26 PM

Wescott Tools

Paint Stains said...

wow. great tutorial...you are really in depth..this is fantastic!

Core-dinations Cardstock Packs

angie ashuk said...

Love all the projects. I really must try the cuttable foam. Looks like lots of fun:)

February 10, 2012 12:43 PM

Congratulations to all the winners! Please email me at Gluegirl@gluearts.com with your prize in the subject line!!

Follow Your Heart with GlueArts!

2012-02-10T11:52:00.000-05:00

Valentine Tag & Treat Box

GlueArts Designer: Linda Albrecht

Supplies:

Glue Arts Glue Glider Pro with Perma Tac Adhesive

Glue Arts Ribbon Adhesive

Glue Arts U-Cut-It-Foam

Glue Arts Hot Glue Gun & Sticks

Glue Arts Accent It All Vinyl-white

Patterned Papers- My Minds Eye

Trinket Pins- Maya Road

Rhinestones- Melissa Frances

Die Cuts- AccuCut & Provo Craft

Wood box- Michael's

Miscellaneous:

Lace & Ric Rac trim

Cotton string

Mini clothespin

Paper heart doily

Instructions:
1. Cover treat box with paper using Perma Tac Adhesive, distress edges with sandpaper and brown inkpad.
2. Cut embellishments from paper and from U Cut It Foam. I like to apply paper directly to one side of the foam (slightly bigger than the pieces that I am cutting) so there is no room to apply the die cut paper incorrectly... especially with a shape that is scalloped or intricate, because the foam sticks like crazy! There is no taking it off to line up the edges better once you place it on the foam-- and that's a good thing, right? :-)

3. For the tiny flowers cut from the foam, remove one side of the backing and apply glitter to the sticky side. Remove other side backing as you apply them to your project.

Box embellishment
4. Cut "doily" from white Accent It All Vinyl and adhere to the box front then apply foam to the backside of a tag and place on top of vinyl doily.
5. Apply lace and trims with Ribbon Adhesive then wrap string around box and through the hole on tag then tie at the side.

6. Apply remaining die cut pieces, add a rhinestone to each flower, stick a trinket pin into the foam behind die cut, add a mini clothespin to the tag and clip on sentiment.

Tag Instructions

7. Cut tag from patterned paper. Fold a paper heart doily around the left side of the tag, but do not glue in place.
8. Cut a heart "card" from patterned paper that will fit over the top of the paper heart doily and sew machine stitches to the front. Apply Perma Tac adhesive to the left inside on the patterned paper heart card then stick the doily to the card.

9. Use Perma Tac to adhere the back side of the paper heart to the back side of the tag.
10. Add trims and foam cut embellishments to the center of the heart on the tag.

11. Stick trinket pins into the foam embellishments and add rhinestones to the foam flowers. Tie a fabirc bow at the top of the tag.

LOVE Letters

GlueArts Designer: Tamara Tripodi

Supplies:
Glue Arts U-Cut it foam
Glue Arts Glue Glider Handle and Extreme Tac cartridge
Stamps by Unity and Punkin' Patch Stamps
My Mind's Eye papers
Canvas corp twine and kraft paper pouch
Memento Ink
Buttons
Kraft knife and mat
Washi/Paper tape
3D letters (Hobby Lobby)

Instructions:

1). Using your Glue Glider handle with Extreme Tac cartridge, adhere paper to letters. Trim off excess. I left the back and sides bare.

2). Stamp all your images that you plan to cut out. Cutting them out with a kraft knife and inking the edges a bit looks great! I adhered various cut out stamps with the U-Cut it foam! I love the dimension it adds, especially with the hot air balloons, gives them a 'floating' look.

3). Add more stamped images directly onto the letters.

4). Embellish with buttons, twine, etc. I used a Canvas corp paper kraft pouch along with hearts backed with U-cut it foam to give the look of hearts floating out of the envelope.

Also, a fun little tip, for more dimension LAYER the foam for extra 'pop'!

We don't know about you...but we're loving this week and all the "love"ly projects from the team!! They just make you happy don't they?! And speaking of making you happy...it's Friday and that means one final CHA giveaway to share with you this week...this one from our friends at Core-dinations Cardstock we have two...yes TWO packs of cardstock collections..

The Vintage Collection pack and the Black Magic Collections pack!!

Plus since we're highlighting our GlueArts U Cut It Foam all week long we're tucking in a pack of that too!!

Simply post a comment today and you're entered to win! We'll announce all the winners on Monday! So be sure to post a comment!!

Did you know? You can shop online for all your favorite GlueArts adhesives and that includes the U Cut It Foam!! Just head to our website and shop away!

Valentine Love With GlueArts!

2012-02-09T11:16:00.001-05:00

Love is in the air!

Valentine's Day is less then a week away and we're celebrating love with Valentine projects for you all week long.

We asked the GlueArts Designers to use our GlueArts U Cut It Foam as part of their supplies and each day we're more and more astounded by their creativity!! Aren't you??

LOVE Card

GlueArts Designer: Patti Milazzo

Supplies:
Glue Arts- Glue Glider Pro
1/4 Perma Tac PRO+ Cartridge Refill - Pro
U-Cut-It Adhesive FoamSpooled Ribbon Adhesive

Other: Bella Blvd pattern paper and alpha chipboard; Fiskars Squeeze Punches and Border Punch; glitter

Instructions:
1. To create the string covered circle accent, I started by cutting a circle from U-Cut-It Adhesive Foam. The circle on this card is 2 ½”. I marked the center of the circle with a pushpin. Then I removed the backing of one side. I tied a knot at the end of the string, trim the excess and pressed the knot into the center of the circle. From there, I wound the thread around the knot gradually working my way outward. Once the entire surface of the circle was covered, I cut the end of the string and tucked it under.

Tip: Be sure to take your time and press down the thread as you go.

2. To cover up the edges of the foam, I applied a length of Spooled Ribbon Adhesive around the circle edge. Press firmly before removing the Ribbon Adhesive backing. Then I pressed the circle’s edge into glitter.

3. I removed the remaining backing from the foam circle and pressed it onto a larger scalloped circle cut from red pattern paper. I used the Glue Glider Pro with Perma Tac Pro+ Adhesive to adhere the circle accent to the top portion of my 5” x 6” card. I also adhered a punched scallop border strip and floral strip of pattern paper just below the circle accent. Next, I punched out 2 hearts from red and pink pattern paper and applied small leftover pieces of U-Cut-It Adhesive Foam to the back of each punch.

Tip: I store all my left over scrap pieces of U-Cut-It Adhesive in an empty Glue Glider cartridge container. They’re perfect for small punches or unusual shapes that I want to give dimension to.

4. I finished the card with chipboard alpha letters at the bottom.

Friendship Treats

GlueArts Designer: Ania Lexander

Glue Art Supplies:

U Cut it foam

Raisen's

Glue glider pro - perma tac

Other:

Vellum

doily heart

Pink Paislee tickets

Flowers from Kort & Godt

Patterned papers from 3ndypapir and Prima Marketing

Seam binding

Vintage trinket pin from Maya Road

Generic glitter

Glimmer mist - snow angel

Staples

Wrap in your gift. Mine's a pair of teabags.

Did you know that using the Perma Tac adhesive on transparencies actually doesn't leave visible traits? At least not for bright colored papers, I need to test this on dark ones too..

See!

I love seam binding! Here I added some subtle pink shimmer (the pretty pink glimmermist-color snow angel) to the trim.

For the smaller embellishments I decided to use raisen's. Quick & simple!

For those of us with a die cut machine; simply just use a chipboard or precut shape & trace w/permanent pen. Or freehand-draw one!

Peel off, add lots of glitter, tap off.

All week long we've been sharing a fun giveaway from our CHA partners and friends! Today's is another amazing one..from our good friends at Wescott!

A brand new trimmer and our favorite scissors and even in GlueArts colors!! Plus since we're highlighting our GlueArts U Cut It Foam all week long we're tucking in a pack of that too!!

Simply post a comment today and you're entered to win! We'll announce all the winners on Monday! So be sure to post a comment!!

Did you know? You can shop online for all your favorite GlueArts adhesives and that includes the U Cut It Foam!! Just head to our website and shop away!