Friday, May 14, 2010

Spring into Summer Blog Hop

Hi everyone - a few of my crafty friends and I decided to have a blog hop-so welcome!!!!! Each one of us will have something special for you. I will be offering a drawing for some"crafty goodies"- so leave me a comment or better yet become a BLOG FOLLOWER and your name goes in for the drawing!!! If you do both you go in "twice"!!!

I have done a tutorial on"Stealing the middle out of your paper"-so here we go!!


Stealing the middle out of your 12x12 patterned paper

1. Line your paper up on your trimmer leaving a 1" margin all around the paper.

2. Set your blade at 1" and set it down and pull blade down the side of the paper
and stop at 11".

3. Turn paper and repeat process until all 4 sides are cut.

4. The middle will fall out.

notes: Your trimmer blade will have cross bars on it so it will line up straight. Your cuts will always start at 1" to 11"-that gives you an 1" margin. and you will have a nice frame for your layout.

Your next stop is Lisa at My Kreative Pursuits. Be sure and leave me a comment or become a blog follower or both to be entered for the "Crafty Goody"!!!! Have a great day and do something CRAFTY!!!!

16 comments:

  1. Love that helpful hint about stealing the paper! Love your blog!

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  2. Awesome! I can think of sooo many ways to use this! Thanks!

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  3. I have already been stealing paper for awhile...LOL but I would love to win the goodies

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  4. Great tip, can use all we can get, lol.

    Klee (MTC)

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  5. Don't you love to do that to your paper. Then you have more paper for borders or whatever you want on your page. Thanks Connie for showing how to do this.

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  6. Great tip for making our paper go further!! Thanks!!

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  7. Great tip for that much-loved piece of patterned paper you can't bear to use on just one project!

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  8. Hey, i didn't know you were doing a blog hop...FUN!!! And this is an awesome tip. I do it all the time so I can use paper/CS that will be mostly hidden behind a larger piece.

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  9. what a great idea and way to save some paper. thank you

    ash_albright44@yahoo.com

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  10. Much better than what I usually end up doing...cutting a piece off the back after the layout is all done and I find I need a bit of the background paper, LOL

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  11. I love doing this to stretch my paper. So glad you reminded us. I'm one of your followers.

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  12. love your blog - I think you could make some great contributions to our Frugal Friday Tips at Scrap Our Stash - hop on over and check us out. I'd love to share some of your ideas.

    http://scrapourstash.blogspot.com/

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  13. thank for the tip Connie..as always, you rock!!

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