Sites of the week

Back in June when Susan and I ventured to the Great American Scrapbook Convention, we stopped by the Inky Antics booth. Of course they had their slew of adorable stamps, and Jackie was demonstrating coloring techniques. After admiring her coloring techniques and chatting with her for a minute, she pulled out a binding system. My mind automatically went into the “time consuming, bulky, difficult and expensive” mode. THEN she showed it off…and I bought it. LOL!! Turns out it’s not time consuming. I put together the book shown below in about 15 minutes {including cutting all the paper}. Not bulky at all! It can easily fit into a desk drawer! Difficult…nope. I’m pretty sure my mom could figure this out {hi Mom!}. Expensive…about $30…that’s $30 less than the Bind-It-All that I have {collecting dust}.

**Note…I do not see this on the Inky Antics site, nor do I know where else it is being sold. HERE is the customer service page if you wish to contact them. HERE is what I found trying to do a search with the product name/manufacturer {Carl Manufacturing Co. Ltd.}.

ETA: HERE is the link for the Inky Antics page that has this product.
Also, Taylor is also going to be selling these by the start of next week on her online store, Taylored Expressions! YAY!!!

**I checked to see if the BIA coils will work with this. It looks like it will be a very tight squeeze, but if you really wanted it to work, you could do it. You would have to hand squeeze them, tho.
**My chipboard is very thin. It was actually part of paper packaging.
**I do not know if it will need replacement blades. I imagine it’s more like a punch that can be sharpened with foil after several uses.

Let’s put a little book together, shall we?

First, pics of the product…

On this pic, the paper placement flap is folded under…

I put together a book using thin chipboard, vellum cardstock {as dividers} and 60 sheets of copy paper all cut to 4.25″ x 5.5″. Please note that I said THIN chipboard. This is not made to go through the thick stuff.

View of me lifting up where you slide the paper under to line it up. This is magnetic, so your paper won’t slide…YAY!

Thin chipboard is all lined up…

Flip down the flap that is used to line up paper. You can see the chipboard now hanging over the edge, ready to be punched.

The punch is slid on and lined up in the grooves, ready to punch!

Holey Holes…

All done with one, now onto the rest…

Not shown… A cool feature that the punch has is a plastic “catch” for all the punched pieces. Easy peasy clean up!

The book and the coil {which comes in MANY different colors} ready to get hitched…

Here we go round and round…

Viola {15 minutes start to finish!}…

Are you saying, “Um, that doesn’t look done to me!” Well, I just wanted to show off the product today. You can add DP before or after punching. If you add it after, you will have that “seam” where the binding is. I am sure that I will be getting a couple of questions in regards to this product and I will be editing this post to answer those. Also, I am going to try to give IA a call and find out if you can order these through them.

I recently got the Making Memories Animal Crackers Ella Embellishment Kit. SO STINKIN’ CUUUTE! It has a bunch of animals and other shapes, as well as buttons, chipboard letters and flowers. You’ll have to pardon the picture quality, as it was near impossible to get a great shot of this bag. Believe me, I tried (and tried and tried!).

You can see I used some fairly untraditional baby colors, but I really like the way that it came out. Here’s a detail shot of the hippo and some of the other embellishments…

I’m making this a short and sweet post, as I really don’t have much to yap about, but have a lot I need to do. Have a great day!!

Usually on Fridays I bring you a project on my blog. Today my project is on the JustRite Stampers blog where I have been blogging all week. Here’s a little peek into what you can make for your kitchen.

As for my very own blog, today I am showing off a product that I just picked up at my local stamp store. I really like using paper piercing as a way to embellish my projects, and many times it’s just that touch the project needs. So, when I saw this paper piercing and embossing template and let it jump into my basket. I actually picked this up before the class that I taught a couple of weeks ago. I ended up showing it to the gals in my class and I think that over half of them bought one!! Anyways, I’m keeping this short and sweet and just showing you a pic of the product, as well as a little teeny tiny sample.

ETA: After I little research, I have found these are made by Siesta, a company in the UK. My LSS found out about them at CHA in February. I do not know of online retailers, but you can check out their site HERE.

I used the scrolly floral template to show you. The last pic is a variety of different items that we can use for the flower centers, including using the template to emboss the center. **note** these templates use a piercer that is fairly thin, much thinner than my Tim Holtz one.

See you tomorrow for another Sketch For You To Try! Have a Happy Friday!